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It’s a pity this is not on main stream media !
I’ll get my ballot paper in a few days. Who do you recommend I vote for?
Neither
Aren’t 15 year old allowed to vote as well?
No
Conservative Party on twitter say you can you vote for the party leader if you are 14 years of age with a valid membership by 3rd June. I recollect a 15yr old son of a Tory councillor voting to make Boris party leader in 2019.
Ridiculous
It irritates me when people mischaracterize stupidity for madness. Many crazy people are highly intelligent. Truss isn’t mad. Truss is very obviously stupid. Far too stupid to realise how stupid she actually is.
And it’s “mad as a box of frogs”. Cummings, wow- good to be reminded of him to relax that we can forget about him.
Good video. I think the Blairite coup of the Labour Party has enabled all of this.
I wouldn’t actually expect Starmer to be any better.
Truss would like to stimulate the economy by giving tax breaks to large corporations whilst the working class pay hand over fist for fuel duty and SMEs drown in a pool of business rates. Rishi would like to do exactly nothing for you whilst his father-in-law exploits the tax system. The SDP are hiding under the floorboards. Labour are a laughing stock. What is a social democrat to do apart from emigrate? Answer me that Richard please
Keep arguing
Fight on
If you are a young man or have a young family , North East to Scandinavia or South to New Zealand seems a good bet, cant think of anywhere else, the grey people prevail
Social Democracy lives within the soul of the British, but it seems the political conduit has been warped and twisted by the agents of the grey people
PR would be a good start on the route to renewal though, but will never happen
Perhaps I missed it, James – in what way is Sunak’s father in law exploiting the tax system?
You will find offices for Infosys in Jersey, Guernsey, Luxembourg, Ireland, Liechtenstein. Typical MNC. Unfortunately capitalism will not be reformed until something breaks. Maybe I should sit in Luxembourg and get the popcorn out?
On holiday at the moment in Scotland. The weather is foul on the West coast at the moment so short walks between showers and repairing back to base, talking and getting dry are the order of the day.
Everyone here knows the value of PR; the level of criminality and stupidity in the Tory party and the supine nature oh HM opposition. They get ABC. It might very well that Tories are on the way out and Truss might be the last straw.
I have been ‘entertaining’ people with stories about the CBRA – they have never heard of it – and still think that banks lend out deposits . I cannot fault the people I am with but the technical detail of how the financial sector seems to have everything sown up eludes them. And whilst that is the case, the benign ignorance along with that of our politicians may mean that any reform from even better politics may only ever be skin deep.
We are staying in a cottage on an island. This place may be owned by a hedge fund manager or trader for all we know. And here we are, it’s lovely.
I do not mind people doing well and acquiring wealth but why is that the more moderate wealth of others has to be reduced in the process.? That is the current failure of capitalism for me, along with the degradation of the planet. And the indifferent lying of a Government who tells us that we could be wealthy if we unchained ourselves and ‘worked harder’. Not a chance.
Anyhow, up early this morning looking out at a bay. The Sandmartins have been feeding over the inlet not far from the kitchen window; a small group of Oyster Catchers have flown across left to right; a group of huge Black Backed gulls have gathered for a confab on a small hut in the distance and Rock Dove is in the garden feeding off the crumbs of the previous days short outside picnic. The fishing boats bob up and down gently in the harbour beyond. There is no sun yet, just cloud shrouding the surrounding hills but it will change. I have Christine Desan’s ‘Making Money’ for my holiday reading.
Take it easy yourself Richard.
I am….
Enjoy
The birding sounds good. It doesn’t have to be rare to be great
How right you are, Richard! On Mull we have a family share in a small cottage, bought 60 years ago by my father and lovingly renovated. We watch the activities of numerous common birds, small and large, as well as seals and, occasionally otters, with fascination. At the same time we can see people standing beside their vehicles with telescopes trained inland towards where they have been told they might see at a great distance, a white tailed eagle, and then again they might not, while, behind them, unnoticed and much closer, there are several other species which, to my mind, are equally interesting.
I am a big fan of every day birds
I don’t mind a rarity, but rarely bother to go out of my way for one
Starlings in my garden are amongst my favourites
Lucky you PSR. Once walked across Scotland. Any Munros near your island? Good to achieve one summit! It won’t know whether it’s owned by a hedge fund
Yes, we are eyeing up two on this trip but the weather is against us at the moment – we got soaked today. Lucky? Yes but this is our last posh family holiday as the eldest goes to Uni this year, followed by her brother next year so it is holidays at home for the next 4-5 years. Because of austerity we can only afford going away if we share with someone else.
PSR you would be most welcome here in France, I should have the roof on by next year. The birding is spectacular, raptors and Little Owls – and the housing sector is fascinating as they tax out speculators ….
Very good, though he didn’t mention climate heating briefly until the very end when this catastrophe is the biggest one we face at the moment.
I suppose the one area he makes a bit of a faux pas is when he scornfully mentions that Sunak was in charge of a large budget deficit. As if that is in and of itself a negative thing.
There is a part of me that hopes (fingers crossed tightly) that this is the next stage in this government heading for oblivion and they will be wiped out at the next general election and chucked into the political equivalent of the dustbin to rot for all eternity.
But, whilst there is still time until the next general election, I feel there is still the opportunity for them to con enough of the population to win a majority. The lamestream media are still very much on their side.
Craig
Is there an example of any major neoliberal economy which has increased growth as a result of tax cuts? What’s Truss’s exemplar for this being a winning idea?
They idea only works on a blackboard – and only then if you make some quite absurd assumptions