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Off the back of the strong showing of a local independent in Rochdale who finished second, there's a local candidate that's standing in Truss' constituency. There's a great article on her linked below. My hunch is she'll lose...

Agree about Labour but, as to your question, not for me. You don't vote for a PM, you vote for a candidate who is generally the representative of a party in a constituency. There are more important things to change and/or re-imagine than introducing such an amendment.

On R4 Today programme at the end of this morning's show, they had a couple of political journos -- Harry Cole from The Sun was one -- who were saying that a primate has more self-awareness than Truss. But back to her thesis: there's a decade to save the west. Ultimately this is all about...

Oh, it was a question, and even featured a question mark. But it was a loaded question, which is something entirely different from a genuine question which seeks knowledge and/or understanding.

Interesting that you thought this was one of her NSC-designated 'crimes'. You may now be aware that she didn't vote for Brexit but, since then, has got fully behind the project, and unleashed a 'fiscal event' seeking to achieve 'the benefits of Brexit'. That 'fiscal event' has actually...

I don't think she's egotistical, more an ideologue. That failed spectacularly under her watch. Yes, it was a daft experiment, but she's not wrong in the diagnosis that motivated it, which is the UK (and much of the affluent world) is in a low-growth regime. Her ideological convictions that were...

Sorry, I had to stop you right there

With a bit of luck, the Minister of the 18th Century is instigating the greatest event of the 18th century.

See post 3363 in this thread

Worth adding that Skidmore was one of the co-authors of Britannia Unchained with Truss. Another was KamiKwasi. She'd already ditched Raab and Patel, the final two co-authors. When she going to work out what the vast majority has now cottoned onto and that it's all a load of rubbish, and that in...

Every silver lining has a cloud

Agree completely, and you raise something that I've been thinking of for the last few weeks (I even planned to start a thread on it, but suspect it'll just get incorporated into an existing one): what have they achieved over the past 12 years. Broadly, I can think of austerity (that failed...

Really not sure that applies any more. The Trussterfuck has made such a mess of the economy that interest rates will go higher (than they would have done), the recession will last longer (than it would have done), and government deficits and debt become that much squeezed (than they would have...

Well, I'm glad this post has received so many 'likes' (the new 'thumbs-ups') but, while you're not directly accusing anyone on here, you are indirectly as there were several posts on this thread dismissing Rayner. I think that says more about the posters than the topic/subject they dismiss.

Wow. Just seen that interview on the 10 o'clock news on BBC by Chris Mason with Liz Truss. She says sorry. Not so sure it'll satisfy her party MPs. I'm convinced that it won't satisfy the public.

In general, I'll agree with you about interest-only mortgages. I had one (admittedly a low one compared to those offered today), and it worked well with me, because I went through a lengthy period of very low income followed by one of above-average, and it meant that I could compensate for...

@Steve Foster informed us that he was going to employ two people as a result of the quasi/Kwasi-budget (so bad they named it twice). Let's hope that process hasn't gone too far.

They keep on coming, but this one is right up there.

Don't know why more people aren't mentioning this. Although not officially in one, the chances are that we are currently in a recession. Not entirely convinced that growth will be as easy to achieve now they've driven mortgage rates up to 6% either, and that's on top of everything else. They're...

Hence the use of conservative, and not Conservative or, indeed, anarchist, liberal or anything else.