Liz Truss Resigns [Who'll be the next Prime Minister?] - Page 34

**Damien** · 29-09-2022, 18:58

This is an extraordinarily bad start for a new leader.

jfman · 29-09-2022, 19:35

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Originally Posted by Damien

This is an extraordinarily bad start for a new leader.

The conference bounce though.

Starmer could be 50 points clear once the public have heard from the idiot.

denphone · 29-09-2022, 19:37

She is certainly not a Boris Johnson in terms of personal popularity with the voters.

She is wooden and robotic and much more like Theresa May.

papa smurf · 29-09-2022, 19:42

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Originally Posted by denphone

She is certainly not a Boris Johnson in terms of personal popularity with the voters.

She is wooden and robotic and much more like Theresa May.

That's a terrible thing to say

denphone · 29-09-2022, 19:48

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Originally Posted by papa smurf

That's a terrible thing to say

Whether one liked Boris Johnson or not he was popular with a broad church of voters until he abused the voters trust repeatedly.

1andrew1 · 29-09-2022, 19:48

For someone so bright to mess up so badly, I can only conclude that it's 100% intentional.

Truss must be trying to wreck a liberated Brexit Britain as she did not like the democratic result of the electorate in 2016.

She must be scheming to enable a successor government to more easily take the UK back into the stifling clutches of the corrupted EU.

OLD BOY · 29-09-2022, 20:15

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Originally Posted by Hugh

You posted

So you’ve now had something that is available next month?

I didn’t say I’d pocketed it. I have had my bill and it shows my discount on it.

If that’s so difficult to understand, no wonder you don’t get the Truss strategy.

GrimUpNorth · 29-09-2022, 20:29

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Originally Posted by Hugh

So you’ve already had the rebate and energy subsidy don’t come into effect until next month?

https://helpforhouseholds.campaign.g...E&gclsrc=aw.ds

Maybe he missed the embargo date on the latest party briefing notes???

Sephiroth · 29-09-2022, 20:30

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY

I didn’t say I’d pocketed it. I have had my bill and it shows my discount on it.

If that’s so difficult to understand, no wonder you don’t get the Truss strategy.

My new British Gas bill shows the discount as a deduction on the Unit Rate.

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Originally Posted by GrimUpNorth

Maybe he missed the embargo date on the latest party briefing notes???

So there!

**Hugh** · 29-09-2022, 20:32

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY

I didn’t say I’d pocketed it. I have had my bill and it shows my discount on it.

If that’s so difficult to understand, no wonder you don’t get the Truss strategy.

But bills are in arrears - how can you have had a discount for next month?

For example, my statement date is 25 Sep 2022 and the statement period is 24 Aug 22 - 24 Sep 22, and there is no Credit on that bill, so unclear how you could have a credit for something that you haven’t been billed for yet, and that doesn’t start until 1st October?

Supplier is Shell Energy.

papa smurf · 29-09-2022, 20:53

Energy discount envy alert

jfman · 29-09-2022, 20:56

How low can she go? What growth creating policies can we look forward to at conference? Civil Service cuts? NHS privatisation?

It turns out macroeconomic policy developer by an Oxbridge student who has lived off Daddy’s paycheck who did work experience at a think tank is a bad idea.

Ms NTL · 29-09-2022, 21:24

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Originally Posted by Pierre

Apart from cutting the 45% rate, I'm struggling to see what else about the mini-budget was so abhorrent? that everybody is losing their minds over.

Nothing really. The bonus cap removal for the bankers was well deserved. The NI cut was spot on, NHS does not need the money as it gets £350 million surplus from EU per week. Additionally, the energy companies are entitled to their profits, as they explore the planet for fossil fuels and they just follow the market prices.

The disappointment is that she did not remove the LTA (what is £1.03 million pension nowadays?) and the inheritance tax (flats in London are around 1 million, even commie Corbyn has one close to 2mil)

irony-not sarcasm

Dave42 · 29-09-2022, 22:37

33% lead for Labour aye Truss is doing great NOT even OB will come to reality sometime

RichardCoulter · 29-09-2022, 23:02

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Originally Posted by Damien

The energy package isn't what caused the panic. It was the tax cuts. The Government is telling lenders that they're going to continue to borrow money, even more money in fact, but they're also going to cut their income steam without any mention of cutting their spending. They're also saying they're not going to bother showing them any forecasts, budgets or plans on how that works in practice.

The result for the poorest isn't great because they're not actually getting much money back and the subsequent inflation will push living costs higher anyway. The Government didn't actually do anything that'll tackle inflation other than the energy cost freeze in that mini-budget which is why people expect the BoE to increase interest rates.

No one is saying you need austerity. They're saying you need a competent plan. The Government could have announced a big spending stimulus package and it might have worked had it been a cost to have 'x' impact over 'x' time giving confidence to the people buying Government debt that they were in control.

If anything Truss is now going to feel forced into spending cuts to explain away her tax cuts.

It's looking like the usual benefit & pension upratings will not take place next April to pay for the tax cut for those earning over £155,000.

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...92770&page=179