Lettuce Liz then Tetchy Rish! and the battle to replace him

[lemonjelly]

the challenge for hunt is going to be how he funds the tax cuts he wants to make. More unfunded cuts will lead to a truss style market meltdown. Thus if they do want to fund a giveaway, they need to explain how it can be sourced. Scrapping non doms, and vaping seem to be the main 2 options here.
The alternative is a tax giveaway, and further cuts to services, without saying what these actually are.

 

[lemonjelly]

Also, Nottingham Police investigating whether 30p's comments are inciting hatred (do it you fools!) and gove under investigation for not declaring conflicts of interest, taking freebies from someone he subsequently awarded £164million worth of contracts.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

the challenge for hunt is going to be how he funds the tax cuts he wants to make. More unfunded cuts will lead to a truss style market meltdown.

Not really as the markets would recognise that much of what he says will never happen as the Tories will get turfed out inside a year, and it's only truly batshit stuff like Toploader Liz's best efforts that spook them.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Booster Seat about to give a speech for no apparent reason. Let's see.

 

[Del Woppio]

Galloway, Islamist extremists and the far right = bad.

Thanks for that insight, you pointless little weirdo

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Was nothing. Banging on about extremism, threats of violence and a horrible atmosphere, mate you employed Suella Braverman and Lee Anderson. Shut up.

 

[Del Woppio]

What was the point of all that? Weirdest urgent statement I've ever seen.

"hai pls b nice k thx guys bye x"

 

[Tony Towner]

Picked up the Truss extremists in Rochdale baton, all part of the latest culture war. Shame Galloway isn't Trans he could have had 2 for 1...although he does identify as a cat I suppose

 

[Tredman]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1763637594976305422

 

[The Saturday Boy]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1763637594976305422

I have thought May election for a while and Reform’s upward trajectory will continue the longer they wait. A budget bribe, a short election campaign and hope to limit the losses.

 

[Tony Towner]

I don't buy it. He's not winning or staying in politics beyond it, he doesn't really care how heavy the defeat is, he'll take it to Autumn for the extension of his own relevance

 

[The Saturday Boy]

I don't buy it. He's not winning or staying in politics beyond it, he doesn't really care how heavy the defeat is, he'll take it to Autumn for the extension of his own relevance

Officially it’s his call, but Sunak isn’t really in charge.

 

[leedswolf]

From an article by John Crace...

 

[Tredman]

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Triple lock is such a terrible thing for pensioners too

 

[leedswolf]

Triple lock is such a terrible thing for pensioners too

I'm not complaining...

 

[Tredman]

 

[Del Woppio]

Jeremy Hunt has given over £100,000 to local Tory party in bid to retain seat

Exclusive: Records show extent of chancellor’s donations since 2019 as polling suggests he is on course to lose at general election

www.theguardian.com

You have to ask yourself why somebody would put so much personal money into retaining their seat, and what he gets from the job for that to have an ROI, even if it's from the opposition benches

 

[Sniffer]

Hunt poised to freeze fuel duty in budget boost for drivers……is one of the headlines on the front page of the Times tomorrow.

The devil is in the detail though, and this will come as a shock to all of us, fuel duty has not gone up since 2011. Interesting to see if the arseholes carry on including it in future tax income statements as rising in line with inflation like they currently do. As with social care, childcare etc etc it’s another can and budget black hole that’ll have to be fixed by the next government.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Chucking money at Canary Wharf. Give me strength.