....more armchair politics (Part 2)

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Only in UK political art, a picture of a green lettuce is surrealism.

Key quote:

Given Labour’s huge majority it is unclear how effective a force the independents will be in Parliament.

I suspect about 2.5% as effective as when Corbyn was leader of Labour.

So Corbyn and 4 MPs elected on Sectarian lines. That’ll have the Government shitting it!

Readable piece here from a reasonably authoritative and non-partisan source on where Rachel Reeves is making some of the same old mistakes of her predecessors. I’d hoped for better


Strange premise for this piece. ‘You shouldn’t try to run the country like a household but let me now assume that is what Reeves is trying to do and why she is wrong, even though I opened this by saying that its totally different anyway
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He closes the piece with this glorious riddle - ‘And, to be clear, I don’t believe in the household analogy. But if she’s going to use it, she should at least follow it. And she’s not doing that.’

Politicians have long favoured the conceit of using the household budget analogy because it often suits the economic choices they want to make (cuts, belt tightening etc) and also because they choose to presume we are too thick to understand the difference. If only the Prof could treat us like adults and leave the riddles and perhaps describe what he would actually prefer her to do instead.

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You need to remember that you’re a distant outlier outwith the financially-illiterate audience for writing like that.

He’s a knobhead. Far left wing arse with an axe to grind.

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There is a fairly major assumption in the premise that is unstared, which is that the real finance cost would not change with lots more borrowing. Given the effect of the lettuce on bond markets with major implied fiscal policy changes that may not be entirely realistic.

I agree. All that talk of household budget analogies and she hasn’t even thought of replacing the Heinz baked beans with supermarket own brand alternatives, or turning the thermostat down a couple of degrees.

Fucking amateur.

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Starmer still struggling to remember who is the PM at PMQs but enjoyed his put down of the Nats.

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 including Lord Bethell and his amazing Schrödinger’s phone.

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hmmm who does she look like :thinking:

image

His next wife, at a guess


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He shoots 
 



Baby mummas everywhere.

He’s still got it.

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