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Russ Jones

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Sep 30

Second #TheWeekInTory in 4 days cos ... oh god you know why

1. KamiKwarzi Kwarteng supports crypto so much, he’s turned Sterling into a new one called Shitcoin

2. He fulfilled his promise to wipe out Stamp Duty by making it impossible for anyone to get a mortgage anyway

3. These exuberantly stupid inanities had named their policy "Operation Rolling Thunder" after the American offensive in the Vietnam War

4. Despite his History PhD, Kwarteng seemingly wasn't aware how that worked out for the USA, but he's learning fast

5. To help enlighten him, international markets began describing UK as being like a “developing country”

6. The £ dropped to the lowest level for 200 years

7. UK gilts fell 25%, the worst drop since WW2

8. Govt borrowing cost rose to the highest level for half a century

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Russ Jones

@RussInCheshire

Sep 26

#TheWeekInTory

1. We begin with our new leader, Margarine Thatcher, who in only 3 weeks has become PM, finished off The Queen, taken 2 weeks away from work, ruined our relations with the US, crashed the economy, and started backbench rebellion to remove her from office

2. Having performed 4 cowardly U-turns during her own endless leadership campaign, Truss now seems to now think was is the key to her success

3. So she unthinkingly announced she’d be accompanying the new (yet also very old) King on his tour of Britain

4. She then bravely announced she wouldn’t be doing that at all

5. And then she boldly claimed she’d never said she would

6. Having demonstrated her lack of brain and courage, the PM completed her Wizard of Oz impression by introducing us to her missing heart

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Russ Jones

@RussInCheshire

Sep 26

Long (long!) attempt at joined-up thinking about how the country could resolve many of its issues, revitalise democracy, return power and agency to regions, improve our economy, and transform into a green, higher-skilled nation.

(I've said some of this before - apologies)

We have a crisis.

No, let me correct that. We have about 40 crises, almost all of them emerging from the same fundamental political idiocy: lack of investment, and an dumb faith that low tax and a feral market will solve everything.

40 years of it. Look at the result.

George Osborne promised his corporate tax cuts and shrinking the state would revitalise the nation, create growth and raise wages.

He did it every year from 2010-2016.

And every year from 2010-2016 he cut his growth forecasts, wages and £ fell, and we slid into despond.

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Russ Jones

@RussInCheshire

Sep 24

The problem with #RingsofPower has nothing to do with "woke" or "not being true to Tolkien". 🧵

The problem is: it's terribly written. No character does anything for any reason except to move the plot along. Everything is perfunctory. The pacing is all over the place. No menace.

The dialogue is flat and unimaginative. The structure is feeble.

Structure:
Like any "big cast" show, they should have had 1-2 episodes focussing on relatable characters (as in LOTR) then gradually introduced the others - that way, we care.

I don't care about any of them.

I'm kinda curious about who The Stranger is, but I expect when I find out my response will be ... oh.

I don't care if anybody else lives or does. They're all, almost without exception, humourless, flat cyphers, defined almost entirely by hairstyles and costumes.

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Russ Jones

@RussInCheshire

Sep 23

The thing is ...

I've run a company. Tax cuts are NOWHERE NEAR as important as a stable, strategic plan. Customers who feel confident to spend. Education that provides skills. Trading laws you can predict. Knowing more or less what the currency will be worth in 6 months.

🧵

For the last decade we've thrown away all such plans, all such stability. The govt told us The Market would provide.

They ran a 12 year experiment in The Market Providing, and it's been a slow motion catastrophe (with occasional fast-motion disasters thrown in).

We have shit productivity cos we have shit training, and that's cos we don't invest in education.

We have shit international trade cos we left the EU, and told the world we don't care about laws, so nobody trusts that today's agreements will still be observed in 3 months.

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Russ Jones

@RussInCheshire

Sep 17

Because it will be terrible, I am live-tweeting the movie "Greenland".

The story so far: Gerard Butler is salt of the earth who works as an architect, lives in a huge mansion with a Supermodel Wife, and has an accent that is better-travelled than he is.

This all makes him sad.

Lady from Deadpool is his Supermodel Wife, and they can no longer speak to one another. To make sure the viewer knows this has been awkward for a while, Butler is made to say "how long is this going to be awkward". Just saying it is easier than acting.

Everybody on the radio and TV is talking about a comet called Clarke, and Gerard Butler's son has drawn a terrifying picture of a comet called Clarke.

I wonder if comet Clarke will be a plot point in this?

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