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Re: Here comes the tax rises
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Originally Posted by Escapee
I'm wondering if he will last to see their first budget.
At least Truss managed that!
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"mini-budget"… 
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-66897881
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The term "mini budget" will be forever toxic in British politics.
So disastrous was then-Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng's September 2022 statement - which included £45bn of unfunded tax cuts - that its long shadow still stretches over our economics and politics…
… In the immediate aftermath, top officials were being asked by astounded counterparts how Britain had singlehandedly shifted one of the key indicators of the world economy in the financial markets, known as the Fed Fund futures curve. It was not a proud moment, they tell me…
… It was the equivalent of trying to pay a restaurant bill with an Instagram photo of some gold bars.
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Probably not the best example of a target to reach…
---------- Post added at 21:44 ---------- Previous post was at 21:06 ----------
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Originally Posted by Escapee
I saw an interview around the time of the election, which I think was with David Starkey. When discussing Starmer being a liar, the presenter said "What, worse than Boris" and the response was "Worse than Blair".
Boris didn't attract this level of scrutiny less than 3 months into his leadership, maybe the bar has been set higher, but if so it's Labour that has set the bar higher with their claim to the moral high ground at every opportunity when they were in opposition.
Starmer is not going to get away with things now he's in power like he did with Beergate.
Labour have been hoisted by their own petard.
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Could be worse…
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Boris Johnson: I planned to invade the Netherlands during Covid
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics...e-netherlands/
https://www.express.co.uk/news/polit...Covid-vaccines
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