Into another mirror-world morning

Liz Truss literally blamed Vladimir Putin today for the UK’s gilt crisis.

Well, you can’t enforce immigration at the borders, might as well make the UK an unattractive place to migrate to? :wink:


Kamikwasi continues. Some £50? £65? billion splashed into the markets to avoid financial collapse, and yet they still cannot work out when exactly the budget will be presented.

At this stage, the King should step in and dissolve parliament and make the people pick again…

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So if I’ve understood this correctly: You put together a budget which is just financially impossible, in that it literally does not add up. You do so while avoiding oversight, so this totally undermines any confidence the market has in you, and you send the gilt market (and hence pensions) plummeting into the centre of the Earth. This forces the Bank of England to dedicate upwards of £5 billion a day to rescue gilts, worsening inflation and upsetting the mortgage market. You then say all will be revealed at the end of the month, and watch as the pound sinks, inflation and mortgage costs rise, and pensions bobble up and down, and the BoE flatly states they can only do so much, in the mean time.

It’s a fucking Swiss watch of a plan, assuming it is a plan, and not just utter stupidity.

And if it doesn’t work, it’ll be the EUs fault, somehow

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This is 4-D chess to solve illegal immigration….

PM has basically lost all authority, we have party officials resigning and un-resigning, and a brewing rebellion in the Tory party, alongside journalists calling MPs cunts and widespread disbelief as the government loses control, over a vote that wasn’t even important.

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I am delighted to inform you our BDSM-obsessed PM is gone.


The shortest term of any British PM, ever. We await the pleas from authoritarian dictatorships around the world asking for stability for the UK.

I like Reddit’s take on this:

Comes in
Kills the Queen
Tanks the economy
Leaves
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TiL: so much

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My hot take is that Boris comes back :wink:

Boris 2: Boris’s revenge. Just in time for Halloween

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Sorry to bring a 2nd Reddit observation in one day but in response to Boris Johnson apparently going to stand in contest to replace Truss, one Redditor crudely put it:

“This is like putting your turd back in your ass.”

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Crude. But accurate.

Reading What Just Happened, Marina Hyde’s collected columns from 2016-2022. The quote above is from a 2019 column about Theresa May. Marina Hayde is massively pessimistic (in an amusing way) but even she called this wrong. So wrong. Only the fourth-worst (so far - I’m sure PM-for-now Rishi can pull something special out of the bag).

In a call back to the long-ago start of this thread, I’m in Switzerland for work and was having a quiet dinner this evening when the adjacent (all non-British) table started discussing UK poltics in a tone of frank disbelief. I was very tempted to join in but a lifetime of Britishness won and I quietly sipped my wine and carried on reading Marina. Shitstorm is a legitimate German word btw. I approve

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and then 6 pages on what a bunch of useless fucks the Tory party are.

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If your workplace requires password changes every 90 days just set it to the name of the current UK Prime minister and you should be fine.

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