[The Weeping Angel]

Boring, let's go back to trying to get Rachel Reeves sacked.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Over live to our political correspondent in Westminster.

- Chris, Keir Starmer has a point, doesn't he that the Brexit he strongly opposed has been an economic disaster, and that the only way out of where we are is hard negotiation with tough trade offs?
- Trevor, that's not what I'm hearing from political insiders.
- What are you hearing? That Brexit has been great?
- No, forget all those fancy arguments about trade friction, who's to say who's right about any of that? The real issue is Rachel Reeves.
- Wasn't the Budget last week?
- Trevor, there's a saying in politics that a week isn't a very long time in politics, so the Budget was in effect today.
- So what's the issue? Plunging pound, like after the Brexit vote? The markets have discovered something very bad in the small print?
-Not exactly. The real issue is that the markets reacted fairly well.
- Isn't that good?
- No, the real issue is that reaction was fairly positive because Rachel Reeves misled the public about the economy being bad.
- Surely politicians manage expectations all the time, Chris?
- The real issue is, did she mislead?
- OK. So presumably, as in lots of politics, you pay your money and take your choice, right? That's usually how we do politics on this channel, right?
- No, Trevor, she definitely misled. It's my job to make these judgements.
- Like Boris Johnson's 40 new hospitals? That was a lie, right?
- Well, Boris Johnson would say that upgrading an X-ray department was just like building a new hospital, others might disagree, it's not my job to make these judgements,
- Well OK then. But presumably what's in the Budget is a matter of fact, rather than a matter of judgement it's not up to you to make. I hear there was a massive move to reduce child poverty, and some unpopular tax rises, but also some reasonably popular tax rises, like on gambling and very expensive homes?
- The public doesn't care about that shit, in my judgement, which I'm making because it's my job to make judgements.
- That's very convenient for you, Chris. Perhaps you'd like to sum up.
- Beleaguered Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, failed to move the conversation on to Europe today...
- Hang on, he's failed to move it on to Europe because you're pushing nonsense about the Budget, surely?
- Are you questioning my judgement?

[Boiler]

As mentioned earlier by TWA, I'm wondering how long Reeves can stay in post before she faces "resigning because it's a distraction" because of the baying hordes of the Fourth Estate, the broadcast media and their Tory sponsors.

If ever these fuckers needed reining in, it's now.

I think it'd be rather funny were someone to hack sackreeves.com? Give Kemikal a taste of her own medicine.

[Abernathy]

Reeves isn't going to resign. Not a chance. Not least because if she does, then Starmer falls too. Not going to happen.

[Boiler]

I sincerely hope you're right, Abers. There's nothing more the cunts would like than a BOGOF on scalps.

[Tubby Isaacs]

The OBR man being questioned by MPs has said Reeves didn’t say anything inconsistent with their analysis.

Chris Mason should resign.

[Tubby Isaacs]

No, the story isn't that "Starmer stumbled". The story is the confected bullshit.

I see someone of this parish has made this point already.

[Tubby Isaacs]

That other thing we said was going to happen isn't happening. "Screeching U-turn from a government that lacks direction" no doubt.

David Lammy expected to water down plans to scrap most jury trials
Justice secretary suggests he will stick to Leveson’s recommended three-year sentence threshold, after ‘cabinet feedback’

I'm happy enough to go with Leveson, but I'm not generally. a fan of (over mythologized) jury trials. And I'm wondering how longer than three years became "only the most serious offences like murder and rape" in the media discussion. It takes a pretty serious offence to get jailed for three years. Someone I know very well was sentenced (quite a few years ago) to a sentence longer than that. It wasn't a murder or a rape. I'm pleased to say he's doing much better now.

[The Weeping Angel]

Karl Turner for one was against these changes.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Clearly lots in the Cabinet were too, and they're not happening, which is how the Cabinet's supposed to work. It'll be represented as another U-turn, when the Government never actually said it was doing it. I'm old enough to remember David Cameron repeatedly saying he was doing something then changing his mind. He got a bit of stick for that (including from some of his own MPs who got fed up with defending unpopular positions on the radio, only to be left looking silly) but not as much as this government gets for "mulling" something.