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"In some sense, him running is the dream. Droning on about how they need a sensible, serious person to fix the mess they've made then that honking pudding turns up with his travelling circus trailing behind"

Have you been in a coma these past couple of months?

You can get 40-1 on that

There's a good article in The Times this morning that suggests that the Tories, in their present state, are not an effective party and need a heavy defeat to become a credible opposition again. A narrow defeat may not have that effect: it needs a good duffing-up to become a "moderate, pragmatic...

I see they've even managed to screw up Truss's letter to Kwarteng by signing it in his name. Is No 10 run by a bunch of halfwits - kids on work experience wouldn't manage to do that. Larry increasingly looks like the best option

So was Johnson - until they saw that he could win elections. And Truss definitely is: look how few MPs voted for her. But I can't see Sunak getting the nod after the members rejected him: it has to be Mordaunt for this plan to work. Mind you, in the last week, I've read of plots to replace...

TM's school went comprehensive when she was there (GB's also changed ... but not until after he'd left it). Interestingly, Starmer's changed the other way: it was a state school when he was there and then went independent. What is bizarre though is that it's quite a meaningless boast as there...

That's a bit tenuous. Saying that someone was at university in the eastern bloc is a long way from saying that someone is a Marxist. She's come from that well-known radical organisation, the World Bank You could use that criterion to say that Angela Merkel was a communist as she studied at an...

I have seen various bods on Twitter decrying the Economist as a leftie magazine and the IMF as a global Marxist organisation. There are some people with a fragile grip on reality.

I see the line being adopted to defend Liz Truss after yesterday's round of local radio interviews is that she wasn't being interviewed by real journalists but by "leftie activists" - all part of a concerted media plot to bring down the government. I'm not really sure that view is going to be...

Which is precisely why I used the word "included" rather than "to be funded by". It is a clear defining line between the parties though

Labour's plans for the energy subsidy included a windfall tax on energy companies, rather than funding it wholly on government borrowing

The Lancashire one is astonishing. It's like she's never done an interview before. And what preparation did she have for that interview? Fracking is a hot topic in Lancashire and was clearly going to be part of an interview but it was like she didn't have the faintest idea what the issues were...

I bought a flat in Balham in 1994, sold it in 2001 for three times the amount. A couple of years ago, I checked the market and a flat in the same street was on sale for nearly four times the price that I sold it for. Salaries definitely haven't gone up twelve-fold in 20 years.

On the other hand, I've just agreed a nice contract with a US firm to be paid in dollars (and am negotiating with another one) Nice one, Liz :thumbsup: (I'm speaking through clenched teeth, I'd much rather be working with a normal exchange rate and see families being able to afford...

Or the abolition of mortgage tax relief

I read that. One of the most bonkers articles that the Telegraph has printed ... and that's saying something. I don't know what's the most deluded statement. That the critics of the government plans in the major banks are "hard-left" or that the Labour revival has failed to materialise (on a day...

All things being equal, yes. But if those tax cuts are accompanied by a rise in interest rates so that more money is spent paying off a mortgage, then there's less money coming back into the economy, At the moment, we have a Chancellor promoting growth via tax cuts, while a BoE stifles growth...

The more pertinent question is what happens to social care? The whole point of the NI increase, we were told, was to fund better social care. There's been no mention of what happens now.

I have had contact with my MP and was very satisfied actually. I've also worked with a shadow minister back in the day and was impressed with the amount of work that he did. In fact, I've met quite a few MPs through work and none of them struck me as lazy. There are some MPs who are swinging the...