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Has the U Turn just made it worse?

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Normandygirl Tue 04-Oct-22 10:33:01

Whilst I welcome the U turn on the tax cuts, I am wondering how Truss and the tories think they benefit from it. The people who were outraged by the policy in the first place are not going to forgive and forget. The high earning tories who had a nice little present dangled in front of them and had it snatched away are not going to be happy. The Mp's who staunchly defended it all week have been made to look like idiots. The economy has already taken the hit, it makes no difference to the planned welfare cuts, and the ones who have made millions from the fallout get to keep their ill-gotten gains regardless.
On the political front, has Truss now lost any shred of credibility or competence that she ever had, or has the U turn saved her premiership?

Normandygirl Wed 05-Oct-22 11:09:22

Thankyou for the book suggestion MOnica I have just ordered it on Amazon. It sounds like it will add detail to George Monbiot view of Truss being the oligarch's PM.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pofTr1QKiBk

M0nica Wed 05-Oct-22 13:38:16

I think I should speak to the author and ask for royalties, so many people are ordering it.

I found it by chance. On a family holiday on the Norfolk Broads we went into a bookshop in Beccles (our family will go into a bookshop anywhere), and I just saw it laid out on a table, flipped through it, speed read a few pages, and with my eyebrows above my hairline I bought it. It has taken me some months to read it, ill health got in the way, but now i am reading it, it is a revelation.