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Also, the media being the media will love to get pictures of her looking a little haggard as it's a lady.

But thought the same, and felt no sympathy for her, they have absolutely no shame in favouring the rich at a time when the needy are on their knees.

How do we go about forcing a snap election to get this selection of unelected shite out of their positions?

[Maark Abbott]

 TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 29 September 2022 - 01:13 PM, said:

 QuickTidal, on 29 September 2022 - 01:10 PM, said:

Did....did I just hear that your new PM just gave a tax cut to the wealthy....?

What the fuck is wrong in the House of the UK?

Pretty sure I'd hit a character limit before I'd finished trying to explain. It is genuinely scary.

To try and expand, our current government is probably about as far right as you can get without tipping into overt fascist territory. They fetishize the Victorian era, where the wealthy and landed were the wealthy and landed, the workers were mere ants to be directed as needed for the sake of money, where the populace were beholden to the whims of their wealthy masters and existed solely to generate extractable profit.

They are also deeply in bed with the corporations; Truss is from an oil company background, so she is effectively in their pockets. Kwarteng used to work political advisory for a company that made a lot of money betting against the pound. Mogg is absolutely the vilest turd I've smelled in a long time and the sooner there's a grassy knoll (in Minecraft) the better. The new home secretary is the one presented with overwhelming evidence that Boris was fucking around and decided to try and argue for his innocence / sweep it all away.

And of course, they are deeply in bed with right-wing media, because it's mutually beneficial for them both to remain in power - so there is no accountability, we can SEE the flagrant corruption and wrongdoing and yet nothing happens because people are so disillusioned that they refuse to vote, or to take direct action. Starmer having taken Labour back to the right, along with his campaign to purge any socialist elements within the party (including a number of Jewish members, funnily enough) has absolutely alienated the surge of younger members that Corbyn brought, so for a lot of people there is no palatable alternative to the Tories, which again only benefits THEM, because the status quo being maintained and slowly altered to suit them is what they want.

Throw sideways, add spin to the end of the throw. That's what our friends in Eire have been teaching us. In Minecraft, of course.

[worry]

You ain't wrong. Every nation-state a labor colony serving billionaires. It's a simple, well trodden path to get there: Attack foreigners & internal minorities; Attack unions; Attack wage raises (you know, cuz they cause inflation lol). Then attack anyone who tries to counter the first three (initially as unrealistic/idealists, but you'll have to turn up and expand the demonizing proportionally as conditions worsen -- but that's fine, there's plenty of ambient anger by now for the nationalists to exploit).

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And on that note Hey hey happy Friday guys!

[worry]

It wasn't a prediction, necessarily! Things don't have to play out that way! Just noting it's a very familiar game plan, for a certain segment of society that happens to have vastly more resources and networking capability now than the last time they were in vogue.

[Maark Abbott]

They'd do well to remember that they're made of food (in Minecraft).

If you're wondering why I keep adding that, it's because of feds.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

'Truss and Kwarteng appear to be taking policy advice solely from the Institute for Economic Affairs, a hardcore libertarian pressure group with famously opaque finances operating out of 55 Tufton Street—and if you don't know what that is, I strongly suggest you read that wikipedia article and follow the links to the articles about their other pressure groups like the Taxpayers' Alliance, Leave Means Leave, and the Global Warming Policy Foundation, it's a real eye-opener (complete with footnotes). For added fun the cabinet appear to have numerous connections to dominionist Christian churches, as we've seen lately in Australia (see also: Hillsong Church) and The Fellowship (in the USA).

[...] the Conservative Party conference begins on Monday 3rd[...] Either the party will double down and drink the poisoned Kool-Aid or (I think this is more likely) they will go backstabby on La Trussterfuck, possibly lining up behind Rishi Sunak, who is currently pulling no punches (and who was absolutely right when he warned about the effects of her policies on the economy before he lost the leadership election). Boris Johnson will attempt to ride in to save the day[...] if Truss doesn't get the party to back her next week, the 1922 Committee will change the rules to permit a no confidence vote before mid-October and she will go down hard, setting a new record for the shortest tenure of Prime Minister in British history, like, forever.

[...] Truss has been shouting through a megaphone that she's a deeply stupid Thatcher cosplayer in the pocket of dogmatic libertarian ideologues who I assume were hired to felate billionaire oligarchs like Crispin Odey or Christopher Chandler who seem to think they are entitled to own the rental income on the UK paid by its citizens without actually bothering to maintain the property: facts don't matter, real people don't matter, we're just useless degenerate second-handers (per Ayn Rand) who are along for the ride as they destroy what's left of the UK's social fabric in pursuit of short-term profit-taking. Worse: the Screaming Jeezus People account for an unholy proportion of the European Research Group membership: the same dominionist agenda seems to be at work behind the scenes in the UK as in the US Republican party (added twist—the UK is majority no-religion/atheist, so it's less visible). The anti-trans witch hunt and escalating culture wars hysteria are symptomatic of the intent behind this[...] Expect more, and harder, as the Tory party sinks below the waves.

[...] If the next PMUK is Boris (again), there is a faint prospect that he will gamble on a snap election, aiming to win on public relief at getting rid of La Trussterfuck [...] If it's anyone else though, there is not a hope in hell of an early general election before they run down the clock in November 2024.'

I can't even - Charlie's Diary

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On that note... https://kamikwasi.tax/

[Tsundoku]

I wonder what the straw is going to be for the UK's back?

And after, will it be a bang (protests, govt removed etc) or a whimper?

[Mezla PigDog]

Whimper. We have been force fed this narrative that we are a great nation. So we just assume everything will work out ok without any specific input from us. We're great, so why wouldn't it? I can't speak for generations below mine - kinda hoping they get mad enough to revolt - but my age and above haven't got it in us.

[Mezla PigDog]

Actually, I just realised that people above my age would never really be able to revolt because they are probably decrepit. Fuck, I got old!

Under 30s need to do something while I enjoy the housing stock I can afford.

[stone monkey]

What I find interesting about Truss & Kwarteng is that they actually seem to believe the idea that supply-side (aka trickle down) economics really works. I'm pretty sure that Reagan & Thatcher didn't actually believe in it; for them it was more a useful excuse to use while they went upon their ideological crusades to dismantle the machinery of government and give tax breaks to the wealthy and to corporations. Truss & Kwarteng, given their ages, seem to have grown up with, and internalised, this particular Big Lie and, more importantly, never spotted that it had never worked like that. I would guess their "logic" was that if they pressed the magic button things would go their way and everyone would regard them as heroes. Cue their surprised Pikachu faces (presumably) when the markets, the BoE, the IMF, and even the Americans, as one, all said "Nah, bro!"
And now they've got to dig their way out of an existential hole, because the world literally does not work in the way their heroes told them it did. Currently they seem to be in the Denial Phase, though. I guess they still believe that supply-side economics cannot fail, it can only be failed.

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I'm past even reading anything about these shower of arseholes.

Burn Westminster and turf the lot of useless fucks out

[Maark Abbott]

 Mezla PigDog, on 01 October 2022 - 06:33 PM, said:

Whimper. We have been force fed this narrative that we are a great nation. So we just assume everything will work out ok without any specific input from us. We're great, so why wouldn't it? I can't speak for generations below mine - kinda hoping they get mad enough to revolt - but my age and above haven't got it in us.

This is also a huge problem and a massive part of why the British public are conditioned to blindly accept what whoever is in power tells them.

Our education system paints us as a great, heroic nation, the empire was a time of great enlightenment for the colonies, we brought stability, education and greatness to them, etc etc. There's a massive culture of the UK being a country that the rest of the world owes a debt of gratitude for, and that we are STILL a world-controlling superpower, and that effectively when we say 'jump', the foreigns must ask 'how high?'.

The younger generations (mine and below) are thankfully beginning to realise that enough is enough, because our lot is permanently living with parents, very few ever being able to own homes, predatory employment with incredibly low wages and a future which is bleak at best and utterly hopeless at worst.

Mac has the right idea. Burn 'em (in Minecraft).

[Abyss]

 stone monkey, on 01 October 2022 - 09:22 PM, said:

What I find interesting about Truss & Kwarteng is that they actually seem to believe the idea that supply-side (aka trickle down) economics really works. I'm pretty sure that Reagan & Thatcher didn't actually believe in it; for them it was more a useful excuse to use while they went upon their ideological crusades to dismantle the machinery of government and give tax breaks to the wealthy and to corporations. Truss & Kwarteng, given their ages, seem to have grown up with, and internalised, this particular Big Lie and, more importantly, never spotted that it had never worked like that. I would guess their "logic" was that if they pressed the magic button things would go their way and everyone would regard them as heroes. Cue their surprised Pikachu faces (presumably) when the markets, the BoE, the IMF, and even the Americans, as one, all said "Nah, bro!"
And now they've got to dig their way out of an existential hole, because the world literally does not work in the way their heroes told them it did. Currently they seem to be in the Denial Phase, though. I guess they still believe that supply-side economics cannot fail, it can only be failed.

Depending on who you believe, the Americans are the ones prompting most of this, on the promise of the opportunity to scoop up privatized health, power, and other services. Further down the rabbit hole, and Truss and co are operating on the promise of profitable executive or consultant jobs, and Russia or Chinese money is behind the entire thing.

It's fascinating to watch from here because the UK is a bit closer than to the Canadian model than the US in some ways. We're watching our two closest allies implode and it is disturbing as all fnck for many reasons, including our own vulnerability to the same path.

[stone monkey]

I wouldn't have thought that anyone could be quite that stupid, but here's Nadine Dorries to prove me wrong. I'd guess she believes that if Boris can't be PM then no other Tory should; which is an Off-By-One Error if ever there was one.

[Tiste Simeon]

If you ever wonder if someone can't possibly be so stupid, Nadine Dorries is usually the one to prove you wrong.

[Malankazooie]

https://threadreader...6312472576.html

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Don't worry folks, Jake Berry has the cost of living crisis sorted
Just go out and get a better paid job

Like Duuuuuuhhh how stupid can you poor people be??

[Maark Abbott]

 stone monkey, on 03 October 2022 - 06:01 PM, said:

I wouldn't have thought that anyone could be quite that stupid, but here's Nadine Dorries to prove me wrong. I'd guess she believes that if Boris can't be PM then no other Tory should; which is an Off-By-One Error if ever there was one.

Paywalled, however, and quite oddly, DORRIES HAS A POINT.

What fucking scene is it where Nadine fucking Dorries says one semi sensible thing. We do need a general election, Truss doesn't have a mandate. Remember when Brown took over from Blair and the Tories were banging on about a GE? That.

But yes do not take my words as anything beyond bewildered surprise, Dorries makes Truss seem semi cogent at least half of the time.