Rick's b.log - entry 2022/10/17

General Election NOW

So, today, Hunt undoes most of the provisions of the mini-budget and stresses the importance of economic stability, and says that the government will have to take decisions of "eye-watering difficulty", which I take to be a warning to prepare for a tax hike to pay for the damage. That is to say, you will be the ones expected to pay for their mistake.

As Rachel Reeves (shadow chancellor) points out, all that remains of the mini-budget is higher mortgages and the lifting of the cap on banker's bonuses.
She says that people will be paying a "Tory mortgage premium" for years to come.

And that is it, exactly. A "strong and stable" government, as the Tory rhetoric goes. The government that has a new PM and a new chancellor effectively flush the economy down the U-bend, which the new chancellor (after the ritual sacrifice of the previous one) pretty much undoes everything, and then has the gall to stand there wittering about stability. Is that your idea of stability? This whole fiasco was totally avoidable, but Truss wanted to make her mark. Well, she has. A pound sign branded onto the back of every low income person in the country.

Earlier in the day, Penny Mordaunt said that Truss had shown "courage" in changing course.
Really, Penny? When you bugger up that badly, it's not "courage", it's trying to desperately salvage both her own career and the finances of an entire country.

Those tosspots performed an idiotic experiment on the country's finances, even moreso given that they (Truss and Kwa-whatever) went to lengths to not declare it as a real budget so as to sidestep the usual oversight and scrutiny that may have stopped this shitshow from ever happening. This screeching reversal is not "courage", it's pretty much the only way to avoid a disaster. Courage would be to put it to the people you're supposed to represent and hold an election.

The current government is not the one that people voted for in 2019. It is now a sinking ship captained by a completely delusional idiot in charge of clueless sycophants whose only idea is "whatever she says".
It. Is. A. Disgrace.

It's is no way to run a country. This shower of cockwombles have no mandate, no clue, no ideas, and no credibility.

General.
Election.
NOW.

Zoom

I won't hang around for long. Those early Saturday starts have wiped me out. I tend to wake somewhere between 5am and 6am, which means I'm pretty much toast by 9pm. This while thing, I think, begins at 8.30pm (my time). So, yeah, I'll pop by. See how my little introvert self copes with being an ugly mug in a square on other people's screens.

Actually, that's not the thing that bothers me. Real time interaction is. Nothing against ROUGOL, I'm just the same in three dimensions. But, I can't feel entirely happy in my shell until I've crawled out of it for a little while, y'know?

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