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Yeah but the vaccines don’t work, haven’t you been paying attention?
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@Catogrande said in British Politics:
Yeah but the vaccines don’t work, haven’t you been paying attention?
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@Victor-Meldrew said in British Politics:
@Catogrande said in British Politics:
Yeah but the vaccines don’t work, haven’t you been paying attention?
Whilst I wouldn’t wish any such suffering on anyone, I’m happy it’s that idiot and not someone else.
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Could go anywhere, but I'll stick it here.
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So Rishi sat down with Piers for an hour last night.
The interview won't change anybody's opinion but he came across very calm, measured and determined to steer the ship in the direction it needs to be going. I wouldn't say Morgan was easy on him, but he certainly could have been a lot harder. Sunak didn't really allow him to talk over the top of him either, keeping himself calm and making his points.
Fair bit of political answering (i.e- not answering) but he made himself pretty clear on what he's trying to implement. Made a nice change, and I'd certainly say that he's probably the best professional communicator since David Cameron.
It's a shame that the trans discussions have to continually come up, but I thought Rishi answered the questions very well. He basically just took the stupidity out of the questions and talked rightly about both sides & why it was so difficult.
He politically failed on the question about Nurses pay / parking charges etc & then there was a huge pause when Morgan asked him how wealthy he was. Awkward.
Regardless, he's doing the things his voters want (certainly not the hard left with his comments about illegal immigration (illegals can fuck off)) & it's undeniable that the country is much more economically stable than it was during the caTrusstophe.
All in all, he came across well. I'm almost 100% sure it's too late for the Tories at the next election, but I can honestly say that right now, there's nobody else I want in that job.
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Your last comment. Is that because you feel Rishi is the right man or just that there seem to be no viable alternatives? Bit of both may be?
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The right man.
If you labeled all the attributes of a perfect PM / President, he doesn’t have all of them. But after the leadership void of May, the blister and bollocks of Boris, the catastrophe of Truss, a calm, measured thinker prepared to make shit decisions is spot on.
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@MajorRage said in British Politics:
there was a huge pause when Morgan asked him how wealthy he was. Awkward.
I really don't get this obsession the press has with a politician's wealth.
Yeah, you can argue a uber-wealthy PM doesn't understand Joe Public (and Sunak had a pretty average upbringing) but you can equally argue a PM who isn't wealthy doesn't understand rich people enough to encourage investment.
It just snobbery to me. Inverted or otherwise.
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When you increase Corporation Tax by 30%, don't be surprised companies invest and create wealth elsewhere.
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@Victor-Meldrew Hunts response is very very strange.
It reads to me that he doesn’t think it will happen.
Which I fully don’t understand.
Really unsure of the path we are on right now.
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@MajorRage said in British Politics:
@Victor-Meldrew Hunts response is very very strange.
It reads to me that he doesn’t think it will happen.
Which I fully don’t understand.
Seems to me he knows high tax is bad, will curb growth and cost more in the long run, but doesn't have any other options right now. Zero vision - just like Sunak - and way too afraid to take the decisions needed to move the country forward for fear of upsetting the vested interests in his party and the country.
Really unsure of the path we are on right now.
Welcome to the Keir Sunak & Rishi Starmer show...
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@MajorRage it's almost like Hunt made his money during the favorable conditions to be an entrepreneur under New Labour, and is now pulling the ladder up behind him..?
The more time passes since Kwarteng/Truss were ousted, the more annoyed I am about the absolute stitch up. At least they had a dynamic vision and wanted to change the policy direction of the UK from the "managed decline" of 2008-present. The fact the likes of Biden and the bloody IMF were weighing in on the intricacies of their tax policy was outrageous, when it amounted to 1% of a spending package that was already pre announced to minimal fanfare.
Everyone wants to point at the market meltdown that coincided with their mini budget as being totally caused by it. Bollocks, in my opinion as a professional investor - 2022 was crazy with rates vol blowing up, inflation going crazy, Ukraine, and generational USD strength. If Boris happened to implode under the weight of his lies just a few months later, and Truss was taking over now instead (with ridiculously buoyant markets), everything would be just fine and dandy.
Incredibly unlucky timing, and now we're stuck with two socially democratic parties with bugger all difference between them, where every single problem is met with the staggeringly original solution of MORE GOVERNMENT 🤮
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@TeWaio said in British Politics:
@MajorRage it's almost like Hunt made his money during the favorable conditions to be an entrepreneur under New Labour, and is now pulling the ladder up behind him..?
The more time passes since Kwarteng/Truss were ousted, the more annoyed I am about the absolute stitch up. At least they had a dynamic vision and wanted to change the policy direction of the UK from the "managed decline" of 2008-present. The fact the likes of Biden and the bloody IMF were weighing in on the intricacies of their tax policy was outrageous, when it amounted to 1% of a spending package that was already pre announced to minimal fanfare.
Everyone wants to point at the market meltdown that coincided with their mini budget as being totally caused by it. Bollocks, in my opinion as a professional investor - 2022 was crazy with rates vol blowing up, inflation going crazy, Ukraine, and generational USD strength. If Boris happened to implode under the weight of his lies just a few months later, and Truss was taking over now instead (with ridiculously buoyant markets), everything would be just fine and dandy.
Incredibly unlucky timing, and now we're stuck with two socially democratic parties with bugger all difference between them, where every single problem is met with the staggeringly original solution of MORE GOVERNMENT 🤮
The only thing that has become crystal clear is the government has zero interest in levelling up & a lot of interest in levelling down.
It's the sheer laziness of people since the pandemic that has really killed it though. I see it absolutely everywhere. Councils sending out things for LGBT inclusiveness whilst the road potholes increase, NHS bookings becoming an impossibility, yet when you get one your the only person in the clinic, hundred of thousands of people on strike (which costs them money) whilst thousands of part time jobs are unfulfilled.
If I was Rishi I'd give everybody 24 hours to sign the pay offers or they are withdrawn. As much as I respect peoples right so strike, I respect my right to actually get something for the taxes I pay. And if I'm getting nothing, why should I pay?
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@TeWaio said in British Politics:
Fiscal thinking in the UK seems akin to two households realising they can't borrow on their credit cards anymore. One household wanted to increase their income by getting a second job while the other household instead decided to stay at home with the heating turned down.
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I read an article on Sunak recently which compared him to Gordon Brown.
A micro-manager who schemed to get the one job he wanted and, now he has it, hasn't got a clue what to do next.
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