UK finance minister sacked after unpopular budget proposals

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Well, that was quick. Do Truss next.

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It’s the second shortest term, and the shortest term where the ex-chancellor is still alive afterwards.

The third shortest term and fourth shortest term also ended this year.

Edit:
The fourth shortest term ended in 2019, but the same arseholes keep reappearing in the cabinet in new jobs so it is easy to make a mistake like this.

Also:

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Jeremy Hunt is back.

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I believe the quote I read from him earlier in the day was “I’m not going anywhere.”

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Enjoy your vacation, asshole.

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It’s utterly bizarre that two of the principle offices of state are occupied by remainers - slavishly continuing the bonkers policies they both stood against a few short years ago.

Electoral Calculus continues to predict a Tory wipeout.

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Posted without comment.

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Sadly, they still haven’t cancelled all of their uncosted plans and give-aways to their donors.
The cut in the top rate of tax from 45% to 40% has been reversed, as has the cut to corporation tax, but the cut in basic rate income tax and the reversal of the NI increase to pay for increased NHS costs are still going ahead at the moment (so wait for another climbdown when they’re forced to reverse thee as well.)

And of course, the plans to abolish the cap on financial sector bonuses, and the new raft of anti-union legislation- they’re still going ahead.

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First or Second Class, Mr. Kwarteng?

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“Unpopular” ?! The budget made the pound tank!

Got stuff from UK sellers in your ebay lists? Now’s the time to buy 'em!

ETA: This vid is hysterical:

This one’s longish, but truss’s press conference is indeed a car crash, as the poster termed it:

  1. At least truss calls russia’s dictator pyootin. That sounds funny.
  2. The first question’s great, and she says nothing in reply, being a conservative. I love the awkward pause.
  3. The second question’s equally great! “He has to go because of the fallout from it, why do you get to stay?” Her answer is sheer nonsense, of course.
  4. truss never had any credibility!
  5. Amazing the way she keeps banging on about economic stability, when she’s done nothing but de-stabilize the economy.
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No, he was fired because he spooked the markets with massive unfunded tax cuts, caused the pound Sterling to collapse and interest rates to soar. The markets’ voice roars louder than the people’s/

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Yes - he spooked the markets with his “unpopular budget proposals” - they were unpopular with the markets.

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So what, exactly, is axing the frontman whose policy you knew about before he announced it and substantially preserving the policy as he articulated it supposed to convince us of?

Is she betting that people will assume that the guy who advanced the proposal being sacked means the proposal is off, despite all evidence to the contrary, or is is some sort of weird Tory initiation ritual where you demonstrate the ruthlessness and duplicity required for leadership by getting an etonian to turn his back on you and then stabbing him?

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Not in Torylandia.

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Britain’s spirits lifted on hearing that twat who f**ked up the NHS is chancellor now

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You’re quite correct.

I’m old enough to remember when Tories were mostly avaricious, cruel, and deceitful and forget that they’ve added many layers on top of that.

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Trying to be the second coming of Thatcher hasn’t worked out too well for Truss. Even her sacred “free” market saw her and her minions for the bungling ideologues they are.

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It used to be “organised spivvery”

Then it was overt, in your face, ‘we don’t give a fuck - the cruelty is the point’, with corrupt favours for friends type spivvery

Now it is incompetent overt, in your face, ‘we don’t give a fuck - the cruelty is the point’, with corrupt favours for friends type spivvery that is so incompetent the friends are embarrassed and those on the receiving end of the cruelty are saying ‘enough’.

Though why it took those on the receiving end so long, is a mystery.

Even today, some vox pops indicate there are fuckwits happy to mouth platitudes in favour of the govt’s fuckwittery even as that fuckwittery doubles down on fucking them over

It almost makes one nostalgic for the days when the Tories could smoothly fuck the population over just enough to have the voters say “thanks”.

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