From Don Adamson, Brexorcist in Chief from Yorkshire.
This week’s quotes: “next two years stuck in a doom cycle … Richy Scumbag uses Johnson playbook … bluster and evasion to shut down questions … 66% of population have lost faith in politicians … Braverman is deliberately inflammatory, divisive and unacceptable … has shown herself to be untrustworthy and unfit for office … Richy Scumbag is unfit to be PM … political embarrassment, nationally and internationally … Wretched spectacle of a Home Secretary trying to out-bigot the bigots … nastiness and incompetence taking root at the Home Office … Tory policies discredited … Richy Scumbag faces a winter of discontent … Thick Lizzie’s disastrous government lost the confidence of financial markets … Britain is fragile … for years growth rate has been dismal, a problem made worse by Brexit … public services are in a dreadful state … poor households are acutely vulnerable …The chances of Jeremy *unt making the right choices are slim … thoughtless spending cuts are likely, so are tax gimmicks … the economy will need less short-sighted fiddling … British ministers are unable to explain what they want … their confusion is the problem. Politician heal thyself … panicky investors, soaring gilt yields and financial turmoil … just retribution for Brexit, though obviously a milder punishment than British voters inflicted on themselves … Fiscal Black Hole’ is a lie peddled by the government at its peril … economist’s research proves black hole is dangerous fiction …Thick Lizzie and Toilet Kwarteng torched the credibility of the UK government … spending cuts usually depress growth … Bank of England predicts recession till 2024 … triggering a doom loop … crisis of government credibility … meltdown in public service budgets … if they ignore the truth Tories will carry the blame for catastrophe … how much we have lost for how little we have gained … it is rare I meet someone still willing to admit they voted Leave … what are they left with … blue passports … like everything to do with Brexit nothing is as it seems and certainly not as was promised … no wonder traders are finding it harder and harder and more expensive to do business … we voluntarily decided to make trading arrangements more complicated … Brexit just keeps on damaging the UK, devouring Prime Ministers, its purchasing power and global attractiveness … in the face of evil goodwill is not enough … Johnson has put in repeated calls to Rupert Murdoch … none has been returned … Johnson’s day is over, ditto Trump … Sunday Times said Richy Scumbag must call an election … the Tory made mess was so bad it would be better to leave it to Labour to clear up the mess and take the flak for higher taxes and cuts in public services. Tories could come back in when the dirty work was done … paper spoke of dozens of unexploded bombs that could end the careers of senior Tories … calling on Scumbag to abolish Non Dom tax status … Rees Mogg attended the funeral of Christopher Booker … Rees Mogg wrote about 4,000 EU laws still on statute books and his determination to see them gone … if Rees Mogg had studied Booker he would know that most of the laws coming from the EU was passed down from global bodies and was the consequence of globalisation … years down the line and Rees Mogg is still untouched by reality … one can only wonder how people at the top of the of the political tree can be so ignorant … Brexit has devastated the hospitality sector … government does not train young people for hospitality business … decimated by Covid … hikes in energy prices … disaster … visa system is far too complicated and expensive … too expensive, too much red tape … we are at crisis point …no prospect of this improving … crippling, making everything more difficult and more expensive … for the first time since records began there are more job vacancies than people looking for work … ending free movement is the exact opposite of what the country needs … cost is enormous … hitting every sector … serious long term irreversible damage to the British economy …for a government struggling to balance the books you might think this would make them think again … Tories do not seem to care that its own mismanagement and indifference to the consequences are costing £7B a year in lost taxes … Biden will no longer face being removed from power … UK provided a warning … a friend in Chicago told me the antics of the Tories frightened the hell out of people … UK was considered an oasis of sanity … to see Tory craziness made steel workers of Michigan think again … Brexit politicians, Leave campaigners never accept responsibility for the problems caused by the very thing they demanded … none of the Brexit promises have been fulfilled … Lord Wolfson says this is not the Brexit he voted for … I wonder how he progressed from running anything more complex than a jumble sale … Chancellor Jeremy *unt has called for another ‘efficiency review’ this does not say much for Francis Maude’s earlier efforts … ‘efficiency and reform’ in the early days of the coalition … it quickly ran into difficulties and had to reset plans … as *unt announces cuts in jobs and services one spending commitment destines to survive is the Maude ‘efficiency review’… one of the more controversial PPE suppliers has been forced to cough up £70M after a legal dispute … it is nice to know it is possible to claw back some of the money spent on useless PPE equipment. How much more of the remaining billions can we expect to get back? … Cabinet Ministers would normally stay for a Commons Statement by the PM … Richy Scumbag rose to make a statement about COP27 … stampede for the exit … why was the Chancellor wearing a medal on Remembrance Day … Lieutenant of the Victorian Order … awarded to *unt’s father … true there is a custom of wearing family medals at Remembrance events … wearing an LVO is crazy … Lord Wolfson said … if we do the right thing it will be 4 or years for Britain to show it is thriving outside the EU … six years on and with the economy badly damaged … Wolfson is now saying he did not get the Brexit he wanted … I served two Foreign Secretaries, Johnson and Raas … neither of whom showed any interest in working … Richy Scumbag and Jeremy *unt have promised to fill ‘the black hole’ … £4.5B wasted on error and fraud … Jeremy *unt’s final report as chair of Conservative and Policy Forum paints a grim picture … If Starmer is serious about restricting overseas recruitment he needs to get his sums right … there is no point in training extra staff if terms and conditions are so dire you cannot retain them …routine outpatient appointments are measured in years … Private Finance Initiative offers a short term political fix but risk coupling crippling long term debts with poor value for money …each and every one of the deaths at Grenfell Tower was avoidable … a rogue’s gallery of manufacturers, designers etc etc etc … Crapita … scandal ridden … pisspoor … the whole fandango could be a complete waste of money … still do not know what works … Elon Musk’s twitter shitshow …
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