After tumultuous week, worth reflecting:
In the 37 years from 1979 to 2016 there were just 5 prime ministers.
In the 6 years since 2016 we’ve also had 5 PMs
Something pretty destabilising must have happened that year
Really good performance from @trussliz at PMQs. While Sir Keir tried to crack jokes, she landed the key point: mistakes have been made but this is a world where interest rates are rising everywhere as central banks combat the inflation caused by Putin’s horrific war.
@SocialistNHS No.
You kept your jobs, on full pay, when many lost theirs or had to live on 80% income for 1½ years.
You have a pension scheme that workers in the private sector can only dream of.
No matter how much money is thrown at the NHS, it continues to perform badly.
Read the room.
Literally everyone wants economic growth. It's like saying you want world peace or that mothers are lovely. Just feel duty bound to point out that literally no one on any doorstep ever talks about it. They talk about their bills, their services, their streets.
Poor baby
#truss recalls as a child being on a plane and being given a junior air hostess’s badge. Her brothers got junior air pilot’s badges. It was not the only time she was treated unfairly because of her sex.
@Dominiquetaegon Please post a link to this account of it?
I've read three different reports online including the police conduct report and they all just say "evidence suggests there was contact between the Audi and the police vehicle."
Liz Truss isn't thick. She's wrong. The fact that a lot of her critics think she's stupid belies a stubborn streak of cultural misogyny that still tells us it's the job of men to be headstrong, reckless risk-takers and of women to be sensible, cautious and passive #truss
An honour to MC the massive @eiecampaign demo in London today. 100,000 people on the streets across the UK.
So proud of striking postal workers too. Not even blinking.
We move.
#EnoughIsEnough
@AliBushell You expect anyone to believe this? My mum aged 87 is in a small flat with basic state pension and a few savings. She’s paying her bills and keeping warm. She’s very pleased to have the govt hand out, too!
I found my neighbour sitting in his car today.the chap I’ve been cooking for since the start of the lockdown. He’s a bit lonely. The drive was in full sun. He said it’s warmer than being in a house he can’t afford to heat. This is Britain 2022. He’s worked all his life. He’s 80:
@Rabberoonies@PlymouthAtheist@AliBushell The reason the UK support is so much higher is because the government have decided to prop up the energy companies' profits with public money. Other countries haven't!
Radio ivs brilliantly done but especially effective because of three fundamentals: 1) Truss not a good communicator 2) she doesn't have an answer to the key question- what good are tax cuts (or energy package) if their value is wiped out by the consequence of her other decisions?