Anyone like to guess how long this government will last?

vegansrock

Plus the RSpCA are calling out the government’s “attack on nature”.

Yes I read this yesterday. I'm wondering how low they can get. I'm thinking all the way to the bottom.

Plus the RSpCA are calling out the government’s “attack on nature”.

The collapse in the £ will cost filling the car an extra £6. Thank you budget.

Apologies think put on wrong thread

The rich will get richer, the poor poorer ... how true is that ! The ones who always will always have to work ... the idle ones won't, I am sure we all know a few of those ... yes genuine ones who can't work ... its the scivers then think they should get everything !

I doubt that Braverman has any grasp of the realities of the police force. It's just another contribution to the far right war on woke. Red meat for the tory faithful.

I was deeply saddened by Bravermans careless discarding of those police working AT LAST

not only to real inclusiveness but, to a real understanding of us/those caught up or affected by the police who go into domestic/public violence against women situations or complex multi-cultural ones or the patrol nights where 60% of work is with the those desperate or/with M Health conditions.

We're only just dealing for heavens sake with the nest of sexism and racism in the Charing Cross Station that included a police murderer.

We should NOT make it an either/or is my point!

We need to adequately deal with ALL policing matters in our troubled society.

He used to do a satire programme on the BBC I think.

Whitewavemark2

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I sorry - who is Charlie Brooker?

I do know who Sue Perkins is.

everything must go

it is too late

A pity she has unpacked.

Well, Charleygirl5, I've just seen a rumour on twitter that she found the Downing Street flat completely empty of furniture, so I hope she took some along with her

(For the pedants among us, I've no idea if it was No. 10, which is the usual PM's residence, or No.11 where the Johnson's lived, because it's bigger...)

Sue Perkins ?

Everything is now for sale. They're no longer trying to hide it. They've taken a wrecking ball to the UK. Write to your MP -about the rivers, fracking, bankers, energy bills -all of it. Flood their inboxes. We have to stop this govt before it's too late.

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Riverwalk

Did I imagine it or have I just heard Chris Phelps, chief secretary to the treasury, who seems to be the one facing the media, say in relation to the tax cuts

"We're not into the politics of envy... we don't want to penalise those who work hard"

WTF!

I do hate that phrase about envy which is spouted whenever favouring the better off is questioned - haven't heard it in a while.

Lots of people work very hard and don't earn anywhere near £155,000. Why is a high salary equated with working hard?

I suppose people like him have to make themselves believe it, otherwise how could they live with themselves.

Yes, I heard it too, Riverwalk, in response to concerns raised that only the well-off will benefit from the budget announcements.

I could hardly believe my ears either!

Oh yes. The very high earners work much harder than anyone else but still need financial incentives to keep working.

The worst off need to have their benefits reduced to incentivise them.

Does anyone really believe that makes any kind of sense?

Did I imagine it or have I just heard Chris Phelps, chief secretary to the treasury, who seems to be the one facing the media, say in relation to the tax cuts

"We're not into the politics of envy... we don't want to penalise those who work hard"

WTF!

I do hate that phrase about envy which is spouted whenever favouring the better off is questioned - haven't heard it in a while.

Lots of people work very hard and don't earn anywhere near £155,000. Why is a high salary equated with working hard?

Christmas would not be soon enough for me. A pity she has unpacked.
Nothing was done for the poor yesterday so heaven help what will happen to them.

Being personal she did zilch for me because amazingly my 2 pensions are nowhere close to !50K.

It may take a full blown riot when the weather becomes really cold so with luck that may assist her to the door.

DaisyAnne

I wouldn't write Liz Truss's ability off although she does seem to have a very low EQ. She seems to be a bit of a think tank geek so can probably talk the talk, but I do wonder how well she can walk the walk. PMQs will certainly be interesting.

I am sorry but what is EQ?
I have read that she did well at school and then went on to an Oxford College.
From her body language I think she is sometimes nervous, just as Mrs May was at times, and like her, is confident within herself of what she thinks and needs to say but cannot put on a show of charm at the same time.
It must be very difficult with the present economic times to know that you really only have two years to turn the tide.

I suppose this government will last until the next General Election, two years?
It is so hard to predict what will happen by then and how voters will feel.
At least we have help with our energy bills and pensioners will return to the triple lock next Spring I have heard.

This government know their days are numbered and they have no chance of winning the next election. IMO they are introducing measures now so that the rich can get all their ducks in a row and receive as much benefit from the new tax structures as possible before the tories are turfed out and new fairer legislation is introduced be the next lot.

LizzieDrip

Exactly! Publicly funded so the public has a right to know details of who the members are.

Here's a bit about them, (but one is Wikipedia)

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Research_Group
www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/tax-funded-research-by-rees-moggs-erg-must-be-released-tribunal-rules/

I wouldn't write Liz Truss's ability off although she does seem to have a very low EQ. She seems to be a bit of a think tank geek so can probably talk the talk, but I do wonder how well she can walk the walk. PMQs will certainly be interesting.

maddyone

I absolutely hate what happened yesterday and I think we need a change of government as soon as possible, but Putin cannot be compared to anyone in the UK government. Putin is a facist despot with the murder of thousands on his hands. When the British government is compared to him I just think people have lost the plot.

But isn’t that because we like to think that those in government do have some sort of decency in them? Which, imo used to be the case. Alas I don’t think that’s the case any more. There are some very dangerous people governing this country at this moment in time.