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“Actually, I didn’t say that anyone had insulted me,”
Literally the post before on this thread by you:
“No constructive argument, just insults.”
Also, doing nothing wouldn’t have caused a crash which has jeopardised mortgages and pensions. Not only that, made fuel costs worse. Other countries somehow managed not to short their currency and damage the economy with actions to mitigate the cost of living crisis.
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I’d love to know where the insults are in this thread. IA calling Truss St Liz, me sarcastically calling Lilico and Hannan geniuses?
That’s tame and the sort of thing most engage in. Maybe I should be woke and politically correct in future and not gently tease anyone who I think have made daft arguments. There are hardly death threats, grievous insults (like c**t) being used. I have seen Bucks language of a similar kind before, but it’s ok when he does it.
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As for the great experts points about Biden, well be has created 10 million jobs since being elected and like any other nation the USA is finding inflation a real challenge but are not employing trickle down economics to address their problems like us because they know long term it flops. Reagan tried it in his time as President and had moderate success initially but it eventually tanked, jobs went again and it added $2.3 trillion dollars to the USA national debt. Not bad for a politician who believes in free markets and making profits, as for Biden’s approval rate most polls put him at about 41%, not huge but about right for a mid term President. When Trump left office his approval rating was 29%, just to keep Buck’s in the picture. Don’t believe everything you hear on Fox News Buck’s, there’s a good lad.
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Someone has taken a picture of Bucksiron mulling over his responses:
*This is meant to be a bit of tongue in cheek banter, not an attempt at bullying or insulting. We all have to laugh at ourselves. There’s plenty to laugh about me, after all.
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Hallo hallo anybody in, earth calling Buck’s wake up and smell the coffee, come out of the darkness and read posts based on facts.
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Bucks battling against reality and acting like the this is fine meme. Suits me, if the Tories delude themselves along his thinking they’re not going to improve in ratings.
10 years ago we needed to reduce the deficit, reduce borrowing because we spent too much, so the poor need to have services cut back. Now we need to borrow to fund tax cuts for the rich. It’s transparent.
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Hallo hallo anybody in, earth calling Buck’s wake up and smell the coffee, come out of the darkness and read posts based on facts.
Partisan Tories are really grasping at straws to pretend this is normal. If it wasn’t for the fact many will now suffer because of their ideology I would be pleased, as it is electoral suicide.
One thing party supporters should bear in mind is that it’s never good when the opposite side rub their hands with glee. Tories understandably did it with Corbyn, now Tories should think why Labour are getting more optimistic with Truss. The more they delude themselves and double down, the more gleeful hands will be rubbed.
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A couple of questions after Bucksirons article. Please define post pandemic supply problems. This seems to be the present government’s get out of jail card when questioned. I suspect it means a shortage of critical workers from outside the UK but brexiteers won’t accept that. Also energy support has happened across Europe with no great issues on the financial markets. A disdain for climate change issues, however painful the present consequences may be, do not reflect well on the life chances of future generations.
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“Anyone who believes Biden is doing a good job just has to look at his approval ratings”.
Anyone who thinks Truss is doing a good job, or as you say, should stand firm, just has to look at the approval ratings.
Labour 54%, Tories 21%.
Agent Truss is just doing fine!!
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“Many of us have also been warning that Germany and others were heading for trouble if they continued to rely on gas supplied by a despot”.
Us??? Such pomposity. Wasn’t aware that German leaders were keen readers of the forum.
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Also, I would say there is more to deciphering whether a leader is doing a good job than approval ratings. For example, the 30% of ardent Trump fans are hardly going to say Biden is doing a good job, from a place of reasoned argument, no matter what.
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“Many of us have also been warning that Germany and others were heading for trouble if they continued to rely on gas supplied by a despot”.
Us??? Such pomposity. Wasn’t aware that German leaders were keen readers of the forum.
Also, those who are disagreeing with Bucks don’t unanimously think everything others have done has been great. Germany’s decision to cut back on nuclear has been disastrous.
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I do wish the usual suspects would actually read my comments. What I actually wrote was: “there’s no doubt it [the mini-budget] was poorly managed but what Truss and Kwarteng are doing is fundamentally right.” It was very poorly managed but that doesn’t mean the strategy is wrong.
Let’s also look at a few other facts:
1. The UK is NOT in recession. The BoE was wrong
2. The pound has strengthened a lot, not least because the markets over-reacted and can see the UK economy is in far better shape than claimed by the left-wing commentators falling over themselves to knock the Tories.
3. The Government has stepped in to reduce the impact of crazy energy prices driven by an absurd net-zero policy
4. The reason the BoE had to step in to ‘save’ the pension funds was largely down to the funds using LDIs (Liability Driven Investments). The irony here is that LDIs are being used largely because interest rates have been so low that the funds have taken to using higher risk strategies to cover final salary schemes, which the BoE should never have allowed to happen in the first place.As for energy prices, the reason we’re in this entire mess is down to the stupid drive to net-zero, using renewables that can’t cope with our energy needs and failing to support fossil fuels, which will be needed for many decades to come. The Government’s doing what it can to support consumers though the reason pensioners and others are being forced into this ridiculous situation is down to all politicians across all parties backing the net-zero fiasco.
And yes, many people, including me, HAVE been warning for years that what has happened would happen if Germany and others didn’t stop relying on gas from a dictator every bit as bad as Hitler. Many on here just listen to the so-called ‘experts’ and believe everything these people say, from economics to climate change and lockdowns, without ever questioning them.
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