Liz Truss - the first 100 days....

[Deleted member 28]

Annus Mirabilis​

Sexual intercourse began
In nineteen sixty-three
(which was rather late for me) -
Between the end of the Chatterley ban
And the Beatles' first LP.

Up to then there'd only been
A sort of bargaining,
A wrangle for the ring,
A shame that started at sixteen
And spread to everything.

Then all at once the quarrel sank:
Everyone felt the same,
And every life became
A brilliant breaking of the bank,
A quite unlosable game.

So life was never better than
In nineteen sixty-three
(Though just too late for me) -
Between the end of the Chatterley ban
And the Beatles' first LP

WTF?

 

[The Crofted Crest]

WTF?

It's a well known poem by Philip Larkin, a well known librarian. Another of his poems is about young parents putting their tiny tots to bed: They tuck you up, your mum and dad. Here he is.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Yvette Cooper is having fun facing Braverman these days. This is her latest outing.

View: https://twitter.com/YvetteCooperMP/status/1582429961813577728

 

[Rusty Nails]

Pound vs USD for a start, but, also, coal output, ship tonnage launched, ship tonnage sailing under UK flag, number of naval vessels, number of fighter aircraft, number of bomber aircraft….. I am sure I could find more, if I resorted to google.

Do those things serve as a measure of overall decline of a nation or just indicators of changing priorities and the welcome development of poorer countries over the years?

Falling coal production is no sign of a declining nation, nor is a fall in production of military craft. Much of the production change is a factor of the rest of the world catching up with our industrial revolution and their increased wealth, plus of course our fall as a coloniser and empire, which cannot be seen as a decline, except for some who still long for those days. We have been a relatively small nation that fought above its weight, but thankfully the rest of the world has grown.

Living standards have improved beyond measure, as has the housing stock, the health of the nation including life expectancy, air quality, workers' rights, equal opportunities etc.

We are nowhere near perfect in this country, and still have too great a gap between rich and poor, but to say we have declined, other than as a relative world power, is false.

 

[BoldonLad]

Do those things serve as a measure of overall decline of a nation or just indicators of changing priorities and the welcome development of poorer countries over the years?

Falling coal production is no sign of a declining nation, nor is a fall in production of military craft. Much of the production change is a factor of the rest of the world catching up with our industrial revolution and their increased wealth, plus of course our fall as a coloniser and empire, which cannot be seen as a decline, except for some who still long for those days. We have been a relatively small nation that fought above its weight, but thankfully the rest of the world has grown.

Living standards have improved beyond measure, as has the housing stock, the health of the nation including life expectancy, air quality, workers' rights, equal opportunities etc.

We are nowhere near perfect in this country, and still have too great a gap between rich and poor, but to say we have declined, other than as a relative world power, is false.

That is your view, fair enough. I have said elsewhere, I am not a rose tinted spectacles wearer.

 

[Rusty Nails]

That is your view, fair enough. I have said elsewhere, I am not a rose tinted spectacles wearer.

Neither am I by any means, just trying to put things in context by looking beyond the individual statistics.

 

[Mugshot]

Yvette Cooper is having fun facing Braverman these days. This is her latest outing.

View: https://twitter.com/YvetteCooperMP/status/1582429961813577728

That's just awful, utterly cringeworthy. The Home Secretary of the UK, how embarrassing.

 

[winjim]

That's just awful, utterly cringeworthy. The Home Secretary of the UK, how embarrassing.

Name calling's all they've got.

 

[Mugshot]

View: https://twitter.com/supertanskiii/status/1582365614324453378?s=20&t=e03JKPom9WF-Mr3IlLwdkw

 

[Rusty Nails]

Well said Mark Drakeford.

View: https://twitter.com/AydinDikerdem/status/1582375531320078336?t=_6Ubhl2C8EQdhZkHaFD6BA&s=19

Go Mark.

Unfortunately here in Wales we see far too much of the antics of that half-wit Andrew RT Davies, the Tory leader, in the Senedd, in the press and on local politics programmes. He is a bombastic waste of space.

 

[fozy tornip]

That's just awful, utterly cringeworthy. The Home Secretary of the UK, how embarrassing.

There's a line towards the end of 'The Lives of Others' where, after the Wall comes down, the dissident author confronts some former party grotesque - now nobody - with something like "To think that people like you used to run a country.."

 

[Deleted member 49]

Go Mark.

Unfortunately here in Wales we see far too much of the antics of that half-wit Andrew RT Davies, the Tory leader, in the Senedd, in the press and on local politics programmes. He is a bombastic waste of space.

I've allways liked Drakeford....I'm jealous.

 

[Rusty Nails]

I've allways liked Drakeford....I'm jealous.

A friend of mine has known him and worked with him for over 30 years. He says he is 100% genuine in his socialist beliefs, did not seek the leadership of the Party in Wales, but does it without any aim of personal aggrandisement.

 

[Mugshot]

Is it Trussonomics or Tuftonomics? Led By Donkeys seem to go for the latter.

View: https://twitter.com/ByDonkeys/status/1582303415576715265

Very, very good.
Yet these goons can still be seen popping up daily on a TV or radio station near you.

 

[Mugshot]

The problem isn't the policies, the problem is we weren't doing them enough.

Minford was on Today a few days ago saying exactly this.
What I couldn't get out of my head throughout the entire interview was that this bloke is Prof of Economics at Cardiff Uni.