Genius!!
I wasnât here for Osborneâs austerity, and it is quite striking to me how much it has featured in the narrative these last few weeks.
How would Part Deux go down, in the opinion of my learned TAN colleagues?
Answers on a postcard please.
The Braverman appointment does wreak of some kind agreement / back scratching type thing. Again the optics are awful but they donât care.
NHS waiting list hitting 10 million.
SorryâŚI meant how would it go down with the population.
Would the struggling Tory voters in the Midlands and North eat that particular shit sandwich again?
The rail industry in the north is starting to get a bit of attention finally.
The government have run it into the ground on purpose. The operators can cancel whatever services they want with literally no punishment. They used to be fined for trains being cancelled, not any longer. There is no incentive for the operators to bother fixing the problems, theyâre all on track to be rewarded with new franchises regardless.
Itâs extraordinary what is happening. Directors of the TOCs will privately admit they wouldnât be running such a reduced service if they were getting fined, but publicly youâll hear them blaming staff sickness and covid.
So much rhetoric about growth and productivity yet these people are destroying our infrastructure on purpose. Cunts of the very highest order.
I have not heard a single thing that wasnât horrifically negative about trains in the north.
Some pretty grim reading hereâŚ
One analysis of the U.K.âs infamous âproductivity puzzleâ concluded that outside of London and finance, almost every British sector has lower productivity than its Western European peers.
Thus, the U.K., the first nation to industrialize, was also the first to deindustrialize. Britain gave rise to the productivity revolution that changed the world, and now it has some of the worst productivity statistics of any major economy. What was once the worldâs most powerful globalized empire has now voted to explicitly reduce global access to trade and talent. Since Brexit, immigration, exports, and foreign investment have all declined, likely reducing the size of the U.K.âs economy by several percentage points in the long run.
Itâs funny coz it sounds exactly like something a shit tonne of people would actually say.
Itâs quite a tactic by the Tories. Fuck everything up for 12 years, accelerating the fucking up for the final month, then put forward a âsteady handâ and hope for a bounce
Borrowing has become a dirty word in politics and Tory politicians have down a cracking job of making the public believe in nonsense concepts like the ânational credit cardâ.
In reality, for a government with its capacity to stimulate growth through sensible policy measures, borrowing is no bad thing. Borrowing to put money into the NHS, or commit to major infrastructure programmes pays for itself. Borrowing to fund tax cuts for the wealthy does.
In short, borrow for the stuff that stimulates the economy. Donât borrow for stuff that doesnât. The problem is that the Tories have a difficult time differentiating between the two.
Letâs take a very simple example of Englandâs problem. Warrington used to have (just as an example) 2 breweries and one of the largest wire manufacturers in the world. 2 of those are now houses and one is a supermarket. Where do the people who can afford the ÂŁ250k houses work please?
FIFY I think.
Iâve been through Stoke a few times, it was really scarey! 
Theyâre retired, like all the others that used to work!
Haha @PeachesEnRegalia
WaitâŚ
I guess maybe there is only one Tory in the cabinet that people might find to be a real and sincere person?
PresentingâŚLORD TRUE
ITâS ALIVE!!!
