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Jul 26 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I'm about 25 minutes through a recording of the #Toryleadershipdebate. I'm absolutely astonished at how smug, smarmy and outright arrogant Sunak is being.

Truss is a complete lightweight. But she'll have won support just because of Rishi's unbearable levels of mansplaining.
Truss, meanwhile, is absolutely hilarious.

"I remember when children were let down in their schools! I remember the recessions of the 80s and 90s! That's why I'm a Conservative!"

The Conservatives were in power throughout that time, you ridiculous liar.
As for her plans for 'growth': where was this throughout the last 12 years?!

The Tories are completely unbelievable. Total 180 on everything they insisted for an entire decade. Have the public even noticed though?
Truss: "I don't think it's inevitable that China will be the biggest economy in the world".

Who will then? Us? 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
Truss: "I've always taken the view we should save our resources. I'm naturally a very thrifty person".

ALSO TRUSS:

theguardian.com/politics/2022/…
And as for one of Sunak's three big ideas on climate change being, wait for it... recycling...

Give me strength.

Oh no, he's on about his Mum and the chemists again. FFS, indeed.

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Jul 28
On 13 December 2019, the morning after the hellish night before, the brilliant @stephenkb wrote this:

"If Labour wants to win and govern alone... they will need to become a considerably more right-wing party than Tony Blair’s, let alone Jeremy Corbyn’s".

inews.co.uk/opinion/labour…
Stephen meant, of course, under FPTP. That line jumped out at me at the time and has been seared into my brain ever since.

Because I think it explains everything, absolutely everything, about what's happened to the Labour Party ever since.
Read the whole piece if you can. It's brilliant - because it highlights how FPTP practically *encourages* extremism now. It couldn't do a worse job of representing what the electorate actually want.

Look at the Tories now, 3 years later. More batshit and dangerous than ever.
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Jul 28
I like Aaron and I like Matthew.

In terms of swing voters, Matthew's probably right here - but the problem is his total disregard for what Starmer's done. Not just to the 'hard left' (whatever that even is), but to the left and even centre-left.
- You can't lie systematically to get elected - which Starmer did - then expect any of those to whom you lied to support you!

- You can't fail to support unions at a time of the worst cost of living crisis since the Great Depression - then expect people somehow not to notice!
- At a time of climate breakdown, a looming pensions, student debt and automation timebomb, and when capitalism no longer works because most people have no access to capital, you can't just blindly support someone with THIS few ideas... and no curiosity about any of it.
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Jul 25
I would love to know how in the world Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves think NOT renationalising rip-off utilities in any way helps economic growth.

What happens when train fares and energy bills are insane? You take money out of the economy and give it to fat cat shareholders.
Fat cat shareholders who in the case of train companies, include foreign governments for God's sake.

Exactly how is the housing crisis ever fixed if so much of people's disposable income goes towards rip-off privatised industries? Save for a deposit or for retirement? Forget it
Here's what I think's going on. The Red Wall is seemingly obsessed with 'responsible government budgeting'. The Tories call this 'sound money'.

That's the 'sound money'... of the debt and deficit skyrocketing under their watch.
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Jul 16
The thing to remember about the ERG is that, other than the likes of Braverman, they're not crazy. They're about power: for *them*, at the expense of everyone else.

There are principled Brexiteers out there. Even principled Tory Brexiteers. The ERG hijacked Brexit.
It dragged Theresa May onto a stupid, impossible to deliver path.

It then refused to back the only possible deal which wouldn't put a border in the Irish Sea, and brought her down so it could control Johnson.

Now, it might lose control of a party it's hijacked.
Hence its appalling conduct. It is miles and miles to the right of even the Tory membership itself. Which is truly some going.

Tax cuts at this time will make things worse. Much worse. The ERG *does not care* about that; it wants, and has always wanted, disaster capitalism.
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Jul 15
I only saw the first hour of the debate earlier. How did I rank them?

1. Tugendhat

2. Sunak

3. Badenoch

4. Mordaunt

5. Truss

Mordaunt was REALLY flat. I think all the briefing against her left her frozen: which way to turn? She has to improve significantly and just relax.
Truss is like someone's idea of a practical joke. You could practically see the ERG's strings controlling her.

"I delivered a trade deal with Australia!" Well whoop de doo, a trade deal with practically our closest friends on the planet!
"I stood up to Putin!"

Liz, in Russia, and in the UK too, you are quite literally a national joke.

Badenoch should've been questioned a LOT more on her initial announcement that she wants a "limited state focused on the essentials". What does that actually mean?
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Jul 15
1. It says something rather ridiculous that women's rights campaigners are now approvingly citing the MOST MISOGYNISTIC NEWSPAPER ON PLANET EARTH.

2. It says even more that they're linking to a hitjob by professional misogynist and compulsive liar, Andrew Pierce.
3. The piece (I read it, so you don't have to) contains the obligatory discussion of her personal life - which never happens to male candidates, ever - and the obligatory video of Splash from 2014 too.
4. Mordaunt's book says the following:

- Parliament is antiquated
- We should have an elected House of Lords
- MBEs and OBEs should be scrapped
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