I’m unimpressed by this gobbledegook, I think the wets are back inventing another form of newspeak to defend endless state intervention
Mr Veen
1 year ago
No, she’s a classical liberal, but not a progressive liberal or social liberal. We already have terms to describe these positions, neither of which are conservative or historically Tory (although the classical liberals in the Tory party will try to convince you otherwise, pretending that Toryism is all about free markets and limited government, when that has not been the case for most of the Party’s history).
Toryism is like all the ‘Uniparty’ in all the world – it is about Globalism. It is about all wealth being driven to the controll of the top 5 Industrial corporations, 3 top Finance/Hedge Funds/Brokerage, 3 top Bio-Pharma, 3 top <military Industrial Complex, 3 top Social Media/Tech, 5 top food producers – and then all $ and all Power are in these rings of Power, and then one ring to rule over them all –
Tories are just Globalists getting their corrupt payoff later – like all but the very few. They are servants of the WEF, and the Great Reset. Same as Labour, Democrats. Republicans – all but Trump – MAGA, it is the last chance before the Iron Curtain descends over all the world.
Not sure. Is there one socially conservative thing Truss has said, let alone actually done? That makes her a social liberal. Economically, she will tax and spend as much as Johnson or Starmer would. I don’t see any coherent philosophy that explains how markets bring prosperity and what government can or should do to regulate market and society.
polidori redux
1 year ago
Let’s just accept the fact that none of these people, well-meaning though they may be, have the faintest idea what they are doing. Accept that and you won’t be disappointed. I think it is the case that we evolved to live in small tribal groups where we all knew each other. When confronted by a tribe that is numbered in the millions we have to invent elaborate political constructs to make sense of ourselves. These constructs don’t work, although they make some people wonderfully rich. These rich chaps aren’t noticable happy, they are merely, as my grandfather said “Miserable in comfort”.
Martin Terrell
1 year ago
I’m not sure they know what they think. They pick labels to appear clever but won’t change anything. Tinkering with the tax rate here or there won’t fix the economic and structural problems of a country that cannot afford to meet its expectations.
Aaron James
1 year ago
Tax cut with no corresponding spending cut = Inflationary + Debt
£150,000,000,000 money created and fiscally dumped from debt on the global economy = extreme inflationary + Debt
Treasury raising Interest = anti Inflationary – weird debt effects
Tightening instead of QE = anti inflationary, reduce Debt.
Take these 4 elements of ‘Matter’ and ‘Anti Matter’, call it the new Mini-Budget – *Pow* the financial markets are dismayed – WTF they say…..What are they doing?
So everyone wondered in this world where ‘Tightening’ is being leaned towards, everyone wondered who would crack first and return to QE – and now we know it is UK, with the drunk Truss at the helm. What she did may be the right thing – but How she did it – madness.
David Kingsworthy
1 year ago
It’s fine to wonder at the terminology one might use in regards to the current regime, seeing as how Truss and co. appear to have no solid ideological principles at the moment. I feel very sorry for our British cousins as their government slides back toward Labour policies in name as well as in practice.
Gary Cruse
1 year ago
Liberalist, to this American, sounds like a malaprop for leftist. Otherwise, it might be a meta-liberal, one who stands outside the ideology while examining it from a loving stance. Here in the US, Dan Rather would be a liberalist — someone who subverts decency while in the hot pursuit of what he knows is only truthy.
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1 year ago
Funny watching the Lebanese finance minister on BBC news hardtalk in a rather aggressive and superior , almost racist *, manner, whilst the headlines about the pound tanking below , billions of pounds being wasted by the bank of England to prop it up.
* If he were African/ Caribbean/ non white/female. it would be. Because he’s middle Eastern and male ( man to man) it almost seems ok but it isn’t.
Nicky Samengo-Turner
1 year ago
I would have thought that ” Tedious, inarticulate over promoted clerk cum line manager” would be a more accurate description.
M. M.
1 year ago
Peter Franklin wrote, “Indeed, [Liz Truss’] political project is already doomed: holed beneath the water-line by, of all things, a market reaction.”
Liz Truss has been prime minster for only about a month. That is not sufficient time to determine whether she will fail at her job.
She has 2 tasks of highest priority. They are enforcing the borders and distancing the United Kingdom (UK) from the United States.
Enforcing the borders means her fulfilling her promise to expand the Rwanda policy, by which the British government deports illegal aliens to Rwanda.
Distancing the UK from the United States means exiting the America security architecture, which includes the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
The justification for the second task is that the UK will remain a Western country after the United States ceases to be one.
By 2040, the United States will cease being a Western nation, due to open borders. Most Americans will reject Western culture, and Hispanic culture will dominate. Currently, in California, 40% of the residents are Hispanic. Most residents of the state already reject Western culture, and Hispanic culture dominates.
Spain is part of Western Civilization as much as Italy. Western culture is driven by how it is being practiced at any given moment. Some may influence it beyond their numbers, but those who reject it do so with the same oikophobia as those religions sustained and enabled by the scientific method until it brushes up against the superstitions of Bronze Age nomads. Then science must be dumped overboard. But they still use technology.
I’m unimpressed by this gobbledegook, I think the wets are back inventing another form of newspeak to defend endless state intervention
No, she’s a classical liberal, but not a progressive liberal or social liberal. We already have terms to describe these positions, neither of which are conservative or historically Tory (although the classical liberals in the Tory party will try to convince you otherwise, pretending that Toryism is all about free markets and limited government, when that has not been the case for most of the Party’s history).
Toryism is like all the ‘Uniparty’ in all the world – it is about Globalism. It is about all wealth being driven to the controll of the top 5 Industrial corporations, 3 top Finance/Hedge Funds/Brokerage, 3 top Bio-Pharma, 3 top <military Industrial Complex, 3 top Social Media/Tech, 5 top food producers – and then all $ and all Power are in these rings of Power, and then one ring to rule over them all –
Tories are just Globalists getting their corrupt payoff later – like all but the very few. They are servants of the WEF, and the Great Reset. Same as Labour, Democrats. Republicans – all but Trump – MAGA, it is the last chance before the Iron Curtain descends over all the world.
Not sure. Is there one socially conservative thing Truss has said, let alone actually done? That makes her a social liberal. Economically, she will tax and spend as much as Johnson or Starmer would. I don’t see any coherent philosophy that explains how markets bring prosperity and what government can or should do to regulate market and society.
Let’s just accept the fact that none of these people, well-meaning though they may be, have the faintest idea what they are doing. Accept that and you won’t be disappointed. I think it is the case that we evolved to live in small tribal groups where we all knew each other. When confronted by a tribe that is numbered in the millions we have to invent elaborate political constructs to make sense of ourselves. These constructs don’t work, although they make some people wonderfully rich. These rich chaps aren’t noticable happy, they are merely, as my grandfather said “Miserable in comfort”.
I’m not sure they know what they think. They pick labels to appear clever but won’t change anything. Tinkering with the tax rate here or there won’t fix the economic and structural problems of a country that cannot afford to meet its expectations.
Tax cut with no corresponding spending cut = Inflationary + Debt
£150,000,000,000 money created and fiscally dumped from debt on the global economy = extreme inflationary + Debt
Treasury raising Interest = anti Inflationary – weird debt effects
Tightening instead of QE = anti inflationary, reduce Debt.
Take these 4 elements of ‘Matter’ and ‘Anti Matter’, call it the new Mini-Budget – *Pow* the financial markets are dismayed – WTF they say…..What are they doing?
So everyone wondered in this world where ‘Tightening’ is being leaned towards, everyone wondered who would crack first and return to QE – and now we know it is UK, with the drunk Truss at the helm. What she did may be the right thing – but How she did it – madness.
It’s fine to wonder at the terminology one might use in regards to the current regime, seeing as how Truss and co. appear to have no solid ideological principles at the moment. I feel very sorry for our British cousins as their government slides back toward Labour policies in name as well as in practice.
Liberalist, to this American, sounds like a malaprop for leftist. Otherwise, it might be a meta-liberal, one who stands outside the ideology while examining it from a loving stance. Here in the US, Dan Rather would be a liberalist — someone who subverts decency while in the hot pursuit of what he knows is only truthy.
Funny watching the Lebanese finance minister on BBC news hardtalk in a rather aggressive and superior , almost racist *, manner, whilst the headlines about the pound tanking below , billions of pounds being wasted by the bank of England to prop it up.
* If he were African/ Caribbean/ non white/female. it would be. Because he’s middle Eastern and male ( man to man) it almost seems ok but it isn’t.
I would have thought that ” Tedious, inarticulate over promoted clerk cum line manager” would be a more accurate description.
Peter Franklin wrote, “Indeed, [Liz Truss’] political project is already doomed: holed beneath the water-line by, of all things, a market reaction.”
Liz Truss has been prime minster for only about a month. That is not sufficient time to determine whether she will fail at her job.
She has 2 tasks of highest priority. They are enforcing the borders and distancing the United Kingdom (UK) from the United States.
Enforcing the borders means her fulfilling her promise to expand the Rwanda policy, by which the British government deports illegal aliens to Rwanda.
Distancing the UK from the United States means exiting the America security architecture, which includes the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
The justification for the second task is that the UK will remain a Western country after the United States ceases to be one.
By 2040, the United States will cease being a Western nation, due to open borders. Most Americans will reject Western culture, and Hispanic culture will dominate. Currently, in California, 40% of the residents are Hispanic. Most residents of the state already reject Western culture, and Hispanic culture dominates.
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Quite mad. “Most residents of the state already reject Western culture.” In what way is Hispanic culture opposed to Western culture?
Spain is part of Western Civilization as much as Italy. Western culture is driven by how it is being practiced at any given moment. Some may influence it beyond their numbers, but those who reject it do so with the same oikophobia as those religions sustained and enabled by the scientific method until it brushes up against the superstitions of Bronze Age nomads. Then science must be dumped overboard. But they still use technology.