Pound slumps to all-time low against dollar

[baboon]

3 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

I said from the start, Truss is a gift to the opposition.

 

I have to honest, I never really grasped how much of a gift.

(How long) do you see her surviving? 

[Chomper Higgot]

1 minute ago, baboon said:

(How long) do you see her surviving? 

I’d like her to hang on for the full term of the Government, these bar tenders need to deal with the mess they have created.

[Mac Mickmanus]

Jeremy Hunt likely to be next Chancellor 

[champers]

14 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Jeremy Hunt likely to be next Chancellor 

Confirmed. PM press conference at 20.30 Thai time.

[baboon]

40 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Jeremy Hunt likely to be next Chancellor 

The fourth this year. There's strong and stable government for you...

[nigelforbes]

Hunt with a C confirmed as new Chancellor.....I wonder who comes after him.

[chickenslegs]

46 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Jeremy Hunt likely to be next Chancellor 

That will please the rhyming slang jokers.

Nothing rhymes with Kwasi Kwarteng.

[baboon]

2 minutes ago, chickenslegs said:

That will please the rhyming slang jokers.

Nothing rhymes with Kwasi Kwarteng.

Knobhead? 

[Mac Mickmanus]

11 minutes ago, nigelforbes said:

Hunt with a C confirmed as new Chancellor.....I wonder who comes after him.

Or the current Primer could be called Mike Hunt ?

[Chomper Higgot]

45 minutes ago, champers said:

Confirmed. PM press conference at 20.30 Thai time.

Are ‘the Left’ being blamed yet?

[ballpoint]

21 minutes ago, nigelforbes said:

Hunt with a C confirmed as new Chancellor.....I wonder who comes after him.

You need to study female anatomy

[RayC]

21 minutes ago, nigelforbes said:

Hunt with a C confirmed as new Chancellor.....I wonder who comes after him.

Are you available next Thursday? I have an appointment and would also like to keep the following weekend free. I can take over from you on 24/10. Can someone relieve me on 1/11 please?

[RayC]

Jokes aside. This is embarrassing. This is political ineptness never previously seen in the UK.

 

Shortly before Johnson was ousted, someone - apologies; I can't remember who - posted that those of us who wanted him out should be careful what we wished for. I dismissed this comment as nonsense from a disgruntled Johnson apologist; any new leader could not possibly be as bad. Unfortunately, in hindsight, it seems that I may have been wrong.

[Mac Mickmanus]

1 minute ago, RayC said:

Jokes aside. This is embarrassing. This is political ineptness never previously seen in the UK.

 

Shortly before Johnson was ousted, someone - apologies; I can't remember who - posted that those of us who wanted him out should be careful what we wished for. I dismissed this comment as nonsense from a disgruntled Johnson apologist; any new leader could not possibly be as bad. Unfortunately, in hindsight, it seems that I may have been wrong.

That was me who posted that people should be careful for what they wish for .

   Boris was quite politically central and stable  and Truss is further to the Right and not as stable as Boris

[JonnyF]

Truss should never have backed down to the pressure from the champagne communists. A slippery slope. A political mistake. She should have doubled down on those policies, not reversed.

 

Her only saving grace is that Labour are still unelectable. WMD Tony is probably considering a comeback as we speak.

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35 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

Her only saving grace is that Labour are still unelectable. 

Unsurprisingly, with you this is an article of faith. Amazing how it coincides with your personal convictions.

[champers]

1 hour ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Are ‘the Left’ being blamed yet?

Putin's fault today.

4 minute speech followed by taking 4 questions from the press. She left in a huff.

[champers]

1 hour ago, chickenslegs said:

That will please the rhyming slang jokers.

Nothing rhymes with Kwasi Kwarteng.

There was a young feller called Kwasi,

Who flushed the pound right down the khazi,

His boss PM Liz,

Got in such of a tizz,

She sent him away to Benghazi.

[Bluespunk]

Absolute debacle of a press conference.
 

Most of the questions she took during that humiliating 8 minutes questioned why she should remain in office. 
 

Stormed off after answering (for want of a better word) the fourth one. 
 

Debacle. 
 

She is going to find it incredibly difficult to survive as pm after this. 

 

tick tick tick…

Edited October 14, 2022 by Bluespunk

[SatEng]

1 hour ago, JonnyF said:

Truss should never have backed down to the pressure from the champagne communists. A slippery slope. A political mistake. She should have doubled down on those policies, not reversed.

 

Her only saving grace is that Labour are still unelectable. WMD Tony is probably considering a comeback as we speak.

Regardless of your own personal fantasies

 - Tony Blair will not make a comeback

 - Boris Johnson will not be leader of the conservative party again

 - The Conservative party have now been in office so long that pointing the finger at the opposition history will not work with the electorate - an electorate who will want to see change at the next election

- The only way for the Tories to remain in power is to shift the goalposts - allow a Scottish referendum and take the SNP MPs out of Westminster so that there is not a left coalition of Labour/Lib/SNP with enough votes to defeat them- above all the Tories want to remain in power and any ideology can be sacrificed for that

[Mac Mickmanus]

5 minutes ago, SatEng said:

Regardless of your own personal fantasies

 - Tony Blair will not make a comeback

 - Boris Johnson will not be leader of the conservative party again

 - The Conservative party have now been in office so long that pointing the finger at the opposition history will not work with the electorate - an electorate who will want to see change at the next election

- The only way for the Tories to remain in power is to shift the goalposts - allow a Scottish referendum and take the SNP MPs out of Westminster so that there is not a left coalition of Labour/Lib/SNP with enough votes to defeat them- above all the Tories want to remain in power and any ideology can be sacrificed for that

Are you personally in favour of Scottish independence ?

[SatEng]

Just now, Mac Mickmanus said:

Are you personally in favour of Scottish independence ?

I am in favour of people deciding their own sovereignty

wasn't that the Brexiteers argument?

[RayC]

1 hour ago, JonnyF said:

Truss should never have backed down to the pressure from the champagne communists. A slippery slope. A political mistake. She should have doubled down on those policies, not reversed.

 

Her only saving grace is that Labour are still unelectable. WMD Tony is probably considering a comeback as we speak.

She had no choice but to back down. Imo if Truss had done when you suggest then there would have been a run on the pound. The markets would not have forgiven.

 

Whatever the merits of her economic argument this was - and apparently continues to be - politically ineptitude of the highest order. At the very least, the government could have released the partial analysis of the measures which the OBR had compiled to support their argument (unless, of course it didn't?).

 

As for the Labour party being unelectable. Not according to the opinion polls they're not. The polls may get things wrong at times but not by the magnitude of 25+%.

[Mac Mickmanus]

Just now, SatEng said:

I am in favour of people deciding their own sovereignty

wasn't that the Brexiteers argument?

Are you Scottish ?

[Mac Mickmanus]

1 minute ago, SatEng said:

I am in favour of people deciding their own sovereignty

wasn't that the Brexiteers argument?

Yes, Scotland had that choice and vote and voted to remain as part of the UK 

[baboon]

45 minutes ago, champers said:

Putin's fault today.

4 minute speech followed by taking 4 questions from the press. She left in a huff.

I believe it was 8 minutes and 20 seconds.

Of flapdoodle, however.

'Yes, the Chancellor is sacked but we haven't done anything wrong. And God, I miss him, the man I just sacked. However I respect his decision to be sacked'....

[RayC]

9 minutes ago, SatEng said:

Regardless of your own personal fantasies

 - Tony Blair will not make a comeback

Probably - and hopefully - true

 

9 minutes ago, SatEng said:

 

 - Boris Johnson will not be leader of the conservative party again

Personally, I'm not so sure about that

 

9 minutes ago, SatEng said:

 

 - The Conservative party have now been in office so long that pointing the finger at the opposition history will not work with the electorate - an electorate who will want to see change at the next election

Agreed

9 minutes ago, SatEng said:

 

- The only way for the Tories to remain in power is to shift the goalposts - allow a Scottish referendum and take the SNP MPs out of Westminster so that there is not a left coalition of Labour/Lib/SNP with enough votes to defeat them- above all the Tories want to remain in power and any ideology can be sacrificed for that

Can't see that helping. A Westminster parliament without Scottish MPs would probably help Labour more. Instead of having to govern in a coalition, they would probably be able to form a government on their own.

[RayC]

2 minutes ago, baboon said:

I believe it was 8 minutes and 20 seconds.

Of flapdoodle, however.

'Yes, the Chancellor is sacked but we haven't done anything wrong. And God, I miss him, the man I just sacked. However I respect his decision to be sacked'....

And I've replaced him with someone who I didn't consider fit to serve in my original cabinet.

[SatEng]

18 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Are you Scottish ?

You seem to want to know a lot about me - are you gay?

[Mac Mickmanus]

Just now, SatEng said:

You seem to want to know a lot about me - are you gay?

Can you get to London tonight ?