[Politics] Liz Truss **RESIGNS 20/10/2022**

[mikeyjh]

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Maybe some of the nasties are finding themselves some morals? All I've heard from them is about the next election not about the really crucial stuff like how we stop sending more and more people in to poverty.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Every ex PM gets £150K pension until they die. That’s 7 of them all getting it even if they’ve only been in situ for a couple of weeks.
There’s no money for nurses because the politicians are trousering it all.

 

[Bob!]

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Wow!

Needs to happen though.

 

[A1X]

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If Peston knows this you can be damned sure Starmer does. When he thinks he has the numbers he’ll call a confidence vote. Make squirming Tories publicly back her.

 

[Publius Ovidius]

She needs to go quick!

my pension is tanking

 

[beorhthelm]

See the repeated message on interest rates is to speak to the BOE Governor, disregarding any notion that the BOE has to respond to government policy and performance.

Is this any suggestion that this is a long play to remove the BOE independence?

i doubt it. to take back control of monetry policy from BoE would firstly spook markets, secondly make them responsible for consequences of interest rates. at a time they need to go up, not something the politicans want to be seen doing.

 

[Guinness Boy]

i doubt it. to take back control of monetry policy from BoE would firstly spook markets, secondly make them responsible for consequences of interest rates. at a time they need to go up, not something the politicans want to be seen doing.

Yup, tend to agree with that.

In other news did anyone hear PM on R4 tonight, when NSC was down, where they basically quoted a cabinet member as saying "we're f**ked".

 

[Machiavelli]

‘the shelf life of a lettuce’

And that from The Economist!

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

 

[nicko31]

Gonna be a hairy few days coming up, BOE are adamant after Friday that's it in terms of support.

What really worries me is we have disaster capitalists at the helm, could they really Lizz and co. take us all down to get their warped uptopia they desire.

 

[zefarelly]

She needs to go quick!

my pension is tanking

Count yourself luck to even have one! ( I know you do)
my inheritance is tanking, and so is everything else, daily

the only thing that isn't is food and gas!

 

[beorhthelm]

Gonna be a hairy few days coming up, BOE are adamant after Friday that's it in terms of support.

What really worries me is we have disaster capitalists at the helm, could they really Lizz and co. take us all down to get their warped uptopia they desire.

as of today the total support given by BoE is £12.6bn. that's not today, that's the entire period, there isn't much support being asked for. though rumours other, non-government bonds, maybe have more problems.

 

[sparkie]

Yup, tend to agree with that.

In other news did anyone hear PM on R4 tonight, when NSC was down, where they basically quoted a cabinet member as saying "we're f**ked".

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

 

[Bakero]

Sounds like an unmitigated disaster. Is she the first unpopular populist?

 

[A1X]

Graham Brady’s office tomorrow morning

 

[vegster]

She said she was prepared to be unpopular and was prepared to take tough decisions... time to call that GE then Trussterfuck

 

[clapham_gull]

Sounds like an unmitigated disaster. Is she the first unpopular populist?

I think she is technically an unpopularist.

 

[Randy McNob]

 

[peterward]

 

[Bozza]

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