Bluespunk

Please sir, I know the answer to this one…

Erm, not sure how you get the idea I have changed anything I have said in this exchange, but I guess you need an out. Ah, you should googled Official Opposition and the word opposition to see how they are different things-would have saved you some embarrassment here if you had. Oops… #gotruss-the opposition candidate.

I know the difference between Official Opposition and those that comprise of an opposition to the tories. I have only referred to the latter. And to be honest I believe both defined groups are praying for a truss win. Now that you have been schooled shall we get back on topic?

No they are part of the opposition. As the largest party they are the Official Opposition but I haves not referred to that role in any post. There are other parties also in opposition. I know how uk politics work, I wonder if you do.

They are part of the opposition, the largest block by far but I still don’t care about their internal feuds and even if I did they are not related to this thread. The minor aspect of my degree was politics and uk politics was a specific area of study- so I understand quite a lot really.

Fortunately for me it is #gotruss

Couldn’t care less what the Labour Party gets up to. Just loving the race to lead the tories…as are the opposition. #gotruss

Here’s another quote from the article on truss’ turnabout. It shows here complete lack of a grasp on the facts and actions taken by a cabinet she was a member of. She is a dream candidate for the opposition. “She also said she would ban civil service trades union representatives from using taxpayer-funded “facility time” to plan strike action. Truss’s team said this would save up to £137m a year but unions insist there are already firm restrictions on how facility time can be used. Oliver Dowden, then a Cabinet Office minister, told MPs in 2019 that facility time accounted for 0.06% of the public sector wage bill, and the government was already reducing it.“ https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/aug/01/liz-truss-plan-to-cut-11bn-in-whitehall-waste-ludicrous?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #gotruss

Ah huh… ????

As ye sow, so shall ye reap.

From the same article (which for some reading you didn’t refer or post a link to) ”The most significant element of the plan is the introduction of regional pay boards, which she said would “tailor pay to the cost of living where civil servants actually work”. She claimed this would save up to £8.8bn. Experts questioned whether the savings were feasible. Alex Thomas, programme director at the Institute for Government, said: “If you’re just talking about civil servants, that is ludicrous; it doesn’t add up at all. The whole [annual] civil service pay bill is around £9bn.” https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/aug/01/liz-truss-plan-to-cut-11bn-in-whitehall-waste-ludicrous?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Really? Can you post a link to a credible site that supports that claim please.

As you ask truss issued a list of cost cutting measures yesterday but was forced into a turn around, retract and then reissue them as her numbers were incorrect. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/aug/01/liz-truss-plan-to-cut-11bn-in-whitehall-waste-ludicrous?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other “the Conservative leadership hopeful’s campaign, which received another boost with the backing of Penny Mordaunt on Monday, was forced to redo some of its sums within hours of releasing a series of proposals to reduce the cost of the civil service.” #gotruss

You are asked about food in your luggage when you enter Australia, you are given a checklist to read and then sign. Anyone dumb enough to not read it or just not declare prohibited foodstuffs and just sign it deserves all they get. If you declare things they may be removed but you are not fined. https://www.abf.gov.au/entering-and-leaving-australia/can-you-bring-it-in/declare-it

Ludicrous behaviour. They deserve the fine.

Why on earth would anyone pack two mcmuffins in their luggage?

No worries, she’s out looking for her allegedly overweight American husband who hit the bars last night…

Because you deserve it.

“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.” Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle

Yeah right, that’s all he did…for some reading I read your post and the words of the Hoagy Carmichael/Stuart Gorell classic “Georgia” comes to mind… ”I said Georgia Oh Georgia, no peace I find (no peace I find) Just an old sweet song Keeps Georgia on my mind (Georgia on my mind)”

Good start, now let’s hope they work their way up the food chain…to the one, slightly orange, man truly responsible for the attempted coup.

Ah huh…

Yeah right #gotruss

Uh oh…more tory infighting. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/aug/01/rishi-sunak-rejects-claim-doomster-attitude-economy-income-tax-cut?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other “What she’s suggesting is entirely sticking with the failed orthodoxy of the last 10 years,” Sunak said of Truss’s policy, adding that people were looking at the last months of Boris Johnson’s leadership through rose-tinted spectacles. Addressing Johnson’s behaviour and citing his resignation along with 60 MPs, Sunak said the government found itself on the “wrong side of an ethical issue”.

My lot? I don’t have a lot as such. however have already told one poster I ain’t voting in the uk as I am not resident. Certainly wouldn’t vote Labour if I was though. As to starmer’s fate…couldn’t care less.