We should NOT be happy that the chancellor is assuring the BoE that it is committed to 'fiscal responsibility'.
The only way to achieve that since the minute he announced his reckless tax bonanza for the rich, is *drastic* public spending cuts. #torychaos
I'm not suggesting he shouldn't be fiscally responsible.
I'm pointing out the mess is terminal, with him and Truss in charge, with this policy. The alternatives to massive spending cuts are they both U-turn and bloody quickly, or he resigns/is sacked and she U-turns alone. 2/4
'Growth' to pay for all this is for the fairies. Always was, but so many rookie errors so bloody quickly makes it delusional.
It depended on them being benefit of the doubt rope for the whole 2yrs of the Tory term by markets and the suffering population. 3/4
But they had NO mandate from the public and implication none from the bank or markets. NOTHING had been tested or scrutinised and they're even denying the necessity of coming clean on their reasoning now.
It's an unconscionable mess.
It tells us what real democracy is for. 4/4
there are missing words
'given the' in 3
'by' in 4
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Urged not to underestimate Liz Truss, it now appears we should've taken care not to overestimate her. The sheer scale of her instant cock-up has shocked not only the Tories themselves but even highly sceptical Labour, too. She has demonstrated the political nous of an earwig.🧵
She appears not to have understood the first thing about the man she was carefully loyal to in her strategy to become PM: Boris Johnson. In his bid for power, he lied about the EU and about Brexit with a purpose: to put together a coalition between the people who had suffered for
years under the Conservatives and the Conservatives themselves (yes the horrible irony of it). Britain is the most unequal country in western Europe. That's why we desperately needed to stay in the EU and that's also why we left. Demographic analysis of the referendum result
Phrases meaning drastic spending cuts:
we must be internationally competitive
supply side measures
sticking to existing spending limits for the next 2 yrs
efficiencies and savings
iron discipline
tax payers' money to be spent on front line services that matter *most* #r4today
to elaborate
'we must be internationally competitive' means they believe very low taxes esp for the rich, and very low wages and regulation for the workers are what will attract investors. low taxes = no money for public spending (1-6)
'supply side measures' mean more massive deregulation, bearing down on pay costs - that's rights and pay again, shrinking the state to almost invisible and relying on private intervention for every public service including health (2)
@grimangus Which one hasn't?
We feared we'd lose our freedom of movement and we bloody have.
We feared businesses would get hammered and they have.
We feared Ireland would be a gnarly problem and it is.
We feared the right would use Brexit to shit on our human rights are they are.
@grimangus We feared EU nationals exercising their freedom of movement in Britain would be unwelcome and leave and that's happened.
We feared labour shortages as a result and that's what we've got.
We feared supply chain problems with borders suddenly being reinstated and here we are.
@grimangus We knew they they were lying over the millions to the NHS and sure enough they were.
We feared a huge divorce bill for a divorce half of us passionately didn't want and that's what we've got.
We feared Britain would be divided and generations would suffer and it is and they will.
Pinning this now. It's one thing seeing it used everywhere as an 'old Turkish proverb' and occasionally pointing out it's actually an adaptation of one by me but another when a well-known author using in a perfectly good cause 6 months later, nonetheless won't admit it's not his.
@BlogdoNoblat
These are not Paulo Coelho's words. They're mine,from 23/01/22. Happy they're useful, but it is not right to refuse to acknowledge you're using someone else's words. I told him. He could have just replied, 'Thanks, that's interesting to know.'
But he blocked me.
Once I'd told @pauloCoelho that this was a Turkish proverb, reworked by me for our times, and showed him the evidence, he blocked me. However, later someone else asked him, Is it a Turkish proverb? And he replied yes, it's a reinterpretation of one, without saying it's not his.
Clearly, when used right, and I think Paulo Coelho did use it right, it's the message that matters.
But I'd appealed to him as an author, saying, obviously you know that attribution matters. But no, what mattered to him was not to be embarrassed by someone random on twitter.
@QuislingT You sure are confused. Let me help you.
Here follows a list of ways in which everybody British could use the freedom of movement that we, the British, (only we the British with British parents and grandparents- everyone else with EU passports still has it) have lost. Thread.
@QuislingT to live with a partner we love from any of 27 other countries in any of 27 other countries
to live with our children from any of 27 other countries in any of 27 other countries
@QuislingT to go to 27 other countries for seasonal work, hospitality work, farm work, construction work, care work, childcare, teaching, au pair work, work needing qualifications, work not needing qualifications