Tuesday, 18 October 2022
Number 10's Fightback
After some of the hardest days ever seen by the Tory party, Liz Truss is letting the world know that she's dusted herself off and is coming out fighting. This missive, circulated to MPs this evening, has key lines emphasising how everything is safe in Conservative hands and that Keir Starmer is a dangerous red in cahoots with militant unions. It's not going to win many ordinary punters over, but as a reminder of what the Tories are against? It might mollify some MPs and get them used to the fact that the new arrangement - with Jeremy Hunt in charge - might head off complete annihilation. As long as they stick with the programme.
That is desperate stuff, and will appeal only to the already convinced - namely those Tory members who voted for Truss. I can't see it persuading many to join Team Truss - if such a thing can even be said to exist anymore. Truss is a Zombie PM, and Hunt is running the show. But the ERG and its ilk are not happy, so while they might try to stave off complete disintegration, there will be plenty of backstabbing and plotting and I'd be surprised if they make it to 2024 without a complete collapse.
ReplyDeleteAs a Truss supporter this is over and she needs to go. The problem is there isn't any unity left. There is no compromise between the Remain/One Nation section and the Brexit free-market section.
ReplyDeleteAllegedly Braverman resigned after a row with Hunt and Truss over more immigration. Apparently the OBR says the only way we will achieve growth is via more immigration.
WTF? Look at the productivity chart. You all know the one. The one with the massive downward kink at 2007. The year FOM was introduced.
Seriously, FOM resulted in immigration of 5 million Europeans. Was that not enough? What is it anyone is expecting to happen with, say, 10 million that didn't happen with 5?
I'm just sick of the Remain/Blairite sneering condescending lectures whilst they hold on to views that clearly wrong based on actual data and largely nuts.
But then the smart people in the room thought putting the UK's energy infrastructure under the supervision of a 17 year old Norwegian schoolgirl with Aspergers was a good idea.
It is blindingly obvious that we cannot afford the claims on the state. It is blindingly obvious that the only solution to prevent disaster is growth, and we know exactly how to do that. IT is blindingly obvious that without these steps we will plunge into a doom vortex of increasing taxes, reduced growth, reduced income.
You are all folks of a certain intelligence even if most of you insist on wasting it on student nonsense. How do you think we get out of this vicious circle of overspending we are entering into?