[The Weeping Angel]

Oh joy. And just before the Budget, just to compound the "nothing works and taxes are up" mood.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/202 ... e-november

Bastards.

[Youngian]

There's also the problem that 17.4m, even with deaths and repentant liberal leavers and Lexiters, is rather a lot of voters to tell that (in effect) they made a dumb choice.

Nobody made a dumb choice as all the bad predictions for Brexit were Project Fear. Its not Remain voters Farage needs to be made accountable to. They got the Brexit they voted against.

[Tubby Isaacs]

The problem is that lots of Remain voters are more focussed on Starmer who should "just cancel Brexit ffs"

[Tubby Isaacs]

Reeves considers breaking manifesto pledge with income tax rise to fill £30bn gap
Exclusive: Treasury discussions include possibly adding 1p to basic rate or raising higher or additional tax rates

Roughly translated- Treasury produces spreadsheet.

I'm ok with this but I'll be in a small minority. The general reaction to this is unlikely to be "Great, grown up politics!"

[Tubby Isaacs]

Bastards.

I'd say fools, and inept. They barely make the argument in terms of recruitment, which would be the best argument. Some nonsense rebased to 2008 and dodgily really doesn't cut it.

There's also the drug prices rise coming which it seems nobody is going to be able to do too much about. I'm not saying resident doctors pay for the cost of that, but some recognition of other pressures (which are by no means unique to the health budget) might be sensible.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Ha ha ha. Even Kemi seems to have dropped this. What's the point here? He's saying that Labour dictated the statement, or that the statement was subconsciously influenced by their position? Either way Stephen Fry from Gosford Park is on the case.

To mix my metaphors, can I ask who was in Government?
The Tories
No further questions, Your Honour.

[Andy McDandy]

Show me a journalist who doesn't think there's nobody cleverer than them. If he can't figure it out, he assumes nobody can.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Have we heard from "egghead" Matthew Syed on the subject? He's recently joined the Tories, him and that ex-Labour chap who's convinced himself that the Tories are about to go full YIMBY because some of them wrote a pamphlet. Maybe Syed is advising Kemi already.