Labour crowing about being "the party of sound money" makes me queasy, because Tory style "economic competence" implies austerity, & national debt reduction, for decades to come
Lab shouldn't be a slightly greener version of Cameron's Tories
Even as the Overton window shifts to the left, Starmer's Labour doesn't have the vision to seize the moment with radical policies that the country can believe in
Its grand plan is to say nothing controversial and wait for the Tories to eventually annoy people to death
Historically, the Tufton St ghouls largely tried to pretend their ideology was really about helping everyone
It's a sign of how this country has become detached from its moral & rational moorings, that vampire squids from the IEA can now just say what they really think out loud
Whoever is made Tory leader, expect a rush to introduce deeper austerity to 'fund' tax cuts for corporations & income tax cuts that primarily help the wealthiest
The Tory debt mountain will grow massively all while they fill their own & their mates' wallets
Javid claims his cut in corpn tax is "fully funded" & "if we don't get the tax cuts, we won't get the growth"
Tell that to every country in the EU that has higher taxes than the UK, higher economic growth, AND better public services #SundayMorning#Toryleadership
Jul 8, 2022 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
FOURTEEN DAYS of wasted Daily Mail front page headlines
@LBC@metpoliceuk So the Sunday Times is confident that Johnson's party both broke the law and Johnson has no defence, but he wasn't fined for it nor did @metpoliceuk or #SueGray investigate it.
Every day for six years, the Brexit press, MPs, & lobbyists have hunted for a positive, material Brexit outcome; something that would make the £bns in lost trade, removal of personal freedoms, inflation, and the fracturing of Britain, worth it
They've found nothing
#r4today
This is why we end up with front-page stories about stuff that never happened (EU banning imperial measures & crowns on pints) or stuff that was always happening ("UK opens door to world's top graduates") on an increasingly regular rinse & repeat cycle
Even the propagandists at the Mail on Sunday know the EU never banned the crown from appearing on pint glasses - something Tories established for themselves in 2007
Has to be said, it appears that there have only been a maximum of 26 more fines issued since the last update from @metpoliceuk - so, the chances that Johnson accounts for several of these seems increasingly unlikely.
