they will as usual, ignore them.
Can things get any worse? I do not dare utter the words aloud.
Indeed, but it was good, this morning, to hear Nick Robinson (Today programme on Radio 4) challenge her robustly on her flip-flop over Brexit and being a Liberal. He made it clear many people will not be convinced about her own claim to be a conviction politician. He also made it clear she was in an exceedingly small minority of people who cannot see that tax-cutting right now will be inflationary.
But are the Tory members listening to the pinko Today programme? Probably no more than the Labour left are listening to the government mouthpiece Today programme.
It was damning with faint praise.
Did you listen to what the leadership candidates said to at the start of the contest, the first “issue” that they all turned to, Tugendhat excepted? It was an escalation and while we all knew about the hatred Truss, Badenoch and Braverman had for us, the rest of them had never really had an opinion before and to hear that much hatred from all of them was a shock. Especially from Penny Mordaunt, who had previously been mildly positive.
The only way things will remain at the same level of hate (forget about it getting better) is if Sunak wins and it turns out he was lying to get elected. Unfortunately Tories tend to be painfully honest about their hatred.
If Liz Truss wins, have your GOOD kit ready and waiting by the door. You may need it.
I woke up this morning to hear my housemate watching youtube videos on how to emigrate to Germany, so I know it isn’t just my paranoia anymore.
I think Liz Truss is trying to tell us something
ETA: Green and Purple is a TER dogwhistle, shamelessly stolen from the suffragists. They do have a lot in common with Nazi Astor though.
Not quite Johnson levels of deception
Is that first photo from a Spice Girls audition?
I love explaining how parliamentary democracies work, while throwing shade about how PMs are chosen and living in a country with the electoral college.
Nick Macpherson, the former Treasury permanent secretary, described the tax-cutting proposals of Sunak’s rival Tory candidates, including Truss, as “less the heirs to Margaret Thatcher; more the disciples of Recep [Tayyip] Erdoğan”.
Turkey’s president has sacked more than five central bank bosses because they failed to pursue his chosen interest rate policy. It has left the country with a near-80% inflation rate and a currency worth 90% less than when Erdoğan began running the country almost 20 years ago.
He was just on Newsnight spouting his crap again. I’m kind of shocked (not shocked) the BBC decided he was worthy of airtime - he was not challenged in any robust way by softie Mark Urban - in fact he was thanked, twice, for explaining things. And the two people interviewed with him were no more incisive (Ros Altman and Greg Hands).
I was almost moved to make a complaint to the BBC but I’ve been there before and water off a duck’s back underestimates how effectively the BBC ignores all such complaints.
It is amazing to me that he is an actual professor of economics at a UK university (Cardff).
Well the leadership race could else up creating a schism in the party and they could be so self destructive that they would rather let it burn than back the other side.
That is unlikely but somehow seems closer to the realm of possibility than it should.
He was also on BBC Radio earlier.
As always, the ‘impartiality’ rule meant that Minford was interviewed opposite one other economist as if both viewpoints were valid, rather than the 99% who oppose his ideas. It’s the climate change ‘debate’ all over again where fringe views are treated as credible no matter how little evidence there is for one side.
Not sure what is going on at Cardiff, they also had the - ummm, not exactly ‘orthodox’ - astronomer Chandra Wickramasinghe (he of ‘flu is from Outer Space’) for many, many years whose every public utterance brought them into further disrepute.
And don’t forget, he said that to make Brexit a success it would be necessary to accept the demise of UK manufacturing and agriculture - and this was a reasonable price to pay!
Look, who needs food security? We can tell Germany off about being reliant on Russian gas, and it will be completely fine that we are reliant on foreign food imports. Nothing will ever happen to disrupt the regular, reliable deliveries on which we all depend.
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It’s always new to somebody. An explanation would be nice. I’m pretty sure it’s nothing to do with The Erotic Review.
Transgender Eliminationist Reactionary
It comes from TERF, which had people complaining that people like JKR and Linehan weren’t radical feminists, so I and others removed the F and changed the R to Reactionary. It stops argument by dictionary, or turns it around so that any questioning of the words ends up with evidence of transphobia being presented.
Recent events have lead to us changing the E from Exclusionist to Eliminationist, as the fascism behind their movement becomes even more obvious.
ETA:
Why the “/s”? I thought that’s what having colonies and a navy is all about?
I’m glad I gave you the opportunity of explaining that one.
I was coming to the conclusion that it stood for “The Extreme Right”. Close, but no banana. Naturally I was AFK when that occurred to me.
We must do something to halt the spread of TLAs. (Three-letter Acronyms).
The ‘F’ stands for ‘fuckwit’.
