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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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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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“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 have not insulted you. I have criticised your argument. Bore off with your martyr complex.
Net zero is not why the pound crashed. The point is that this has been caused by Kwarteng’s and Truss’s non-budget. The rising dollar shows that it’s not a global phenomena. You may be ok with mortgages becoming unaffordable and pension funds crashing, but the poorer aren’t.
You fumbling around just makes me trust your economic opinion less.
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I don’t think Starmer thinks it’s in the bag. A lot has been said over the last few days of avoiding complacency, but please forgive Labour supporters for being happy. We’re allowed to have some optimism. Gurny doesn’t represent the Labour party.
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You can make all the excuses you want, the fact is that your ideologues are in charge and all you have are excuses. As big a wrecker of the economy as Corbyn with theirs and your fantasy ideologies.
It’s all because of net zero, yet the dollar is rising (and was the excuse for the slump). Yet, somehow, this ultimate cause of our predicament isn’t having much of an effect in the USA.
The Conservatives: The party of zero personal responsibility.
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Don’t worry everyone. These geniuses have identified the true cause of the pound crash:
I still think the market reaction was mainly to what the mini-Budget said about the BoE decision, but I've thought of a potential secondary factor. The market may have felt that the mini-Budget implied a Labour victory in 2024/25 is more likely than they had previously thought.+
— Andrew Lilico (@andrew_lilico) September 26, 2022
From @DanielJHannan: No, the pound isn’t crashing over a trifling batch of tax cuts. It’s because the markets are terrified of @Keir_Starmer. https://t.co/l06p3fdwkE
— ConservativeHome (@ConHome) September 28, 2022
That’s right, the market reacted so briskly to the possibility of a Labour government coming in when we don’t have knowledge of the outcome or even the date of the election. We can’t predict the financial outcomes of Brexit, but we can definitely state the financial impacts of election outcomes for times unspecified.
Their lack of personal responsibility is becoming impossible to satirise.
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God. Don’t you start with the claims that anything not Corbyn Labour is actually Tory. There is nothing Tory about singing the anthem and not being performatively socialist. It’s been that way since Attlee and before. It’s bad enough when Owen Jones and co groan on about it.
To be fair, pretty much anyone could have beaten Corbyn and I thought that Boris hadn’t achieved Brexit, given that the narrative from some is that we need to ensure it’s done after predictably reneging on triumphs of what a fantastic deal it was.
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Well, it’s a good job Scunny is further north than mouth of the Humber, eh? ;-)
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Southgate insists on playing Maguire when it’s clear he’s out of form and confidence shot. It’s mad.
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All this talk of triggering and cancelling because some air dislike for something is tedious.
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It doesn’t look good going into the World Cup, but can’t see the FA doing anything beforehand. There would be too much outrage after him getting us further than other coaches have. If we don’t do well, hopefully that will allow some critical analysis of his position. He’s a great man manager, but is tactically poor, as is evident when he has faced sides of equal or better quality.
I note you don’t mention that the BBC used quotation marks, because they were quoting the Guardian, not because it was their own choice of headline. It was in a page talking about media reaction. Fuss over nothing from someone who want to demonise anything which isn’t remotely right wing, as is evident with your comments against anything which doesn’t see this as being some great news for the economy.
Meanwhile, the pound plummets and adherents have nothing to back up their opinions. Just that anyone criticising must be some evil lefty. Such is the vacuum of their argument.
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Don’t tempt those who will say that the true poor wouldn’t be drinking whisky at all if times were tough, while they casually sip on their champagne.
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