2022 mini-budget discussion

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doodah said:
Can't find it now but saw an article yesterday with government sources already admitting their growth targets won't come to fruition this term, and possibly not even until the next of the next Parliament.
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Their growth targets are pure fantasy, which is why they suppressed the OBR reports and are now scrabbling around trying to find ways to cut spending so they don't actually bankrupt the country while they're failing to boost growth.

If growth was actually the priority, they would be sitting down with the EU to find some acceptable way forward to at least rejoin the customs union so businesses can get trading again without all the red tape, and we can put to bed the Northern Ireland problem.
 
dLockers said:
That was the lads point. The tories are doing such a poor job (as defined by the media/the current hysteria) that a lot of folk will vote labour just out of protest (or tactical as you put it).

Conservatives knew this, that's why they didn't burn Rishi who is their only credible future PM.
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Do you think he can wait around until 2035 when they get in again?
 
Chris Wilson said:
Bear in mind when malnutrition is cited amongst other conditions on a death certificate, it is mainly the other conditions that have led to the malnutrition.
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Getting sanctioned by dwp is usually a good one, but I don't think they're allowed to piut that on the death certificate.
 
dLockers said:
I think regardless of who it was, it was going to be a disaster. We are just at that stage in the lifecycle. Burning Truss to save Sunak was probably a 200 IQ move.

In terms of what has happened though, they have fixed the energy crisis (temporarily) and decided to give something back to every working individual. Hysteria aside, I don't see the "big" problem - other than it making good punchlines to jokes.
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Ah but would you be thinking the same way if you were just about to get a mortgage at 6%?
 
dLockers said:
Base rates are set by the bank of England and we've known for months now that they'd start to increase them to combat inflation.
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No wonder you're a Gucci belt earner if you knew ahead of time that Truss would get in and deliver the worst (not a) budget of all time, that is totally uncosted and so economically illiterate that the markets went "Wait, what? Really?"
 
wesimmo said:
No wonder you're a Gucci belt earner if you knew ahead of time that Truss would get in and deliver the worst (not a) budget of all time, that is totally uncosted and so economically illiterate that the markets went "Wait, what? Really?"
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I called Trump too if it helps. I just expected the Cons would realise the world was turning to "anyone but them" and they wouldn't want to burn Rishi. Truss ticks the diversity box and gets her out of the way.
 
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JamesH85 said:
Got a instant flashback to Aragron addressing the hobbits here in Return of the King at the end.

Difference is she resembles Gollum not Aragron.

That aside I think that was a more or less meaningless conference.
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More like Sauron giving away the 9 rings......................
 
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