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[Blue 1]

surely kwarteng has to resign

Far too arrogant for that.

The man is sneering, dismissive, condescending, high-handed, and genuinely convinced he's always the cleverest person in the room.

He's also been filling his department with yes-men rather than impartial advisors.

It's quite the recipe for disaster.

 

[FrenchDarrenBent]

Could it just be about personal gain?
From The Guardian:
Labour urges investigation whether hedge funds shorted pound after mini-Budget 'leak'
Labour are urging the City regulator to investigate whether leaks of the mini-Budget allowed hedge fund managers to make huge profits by shorting the pound.

 

[gonetomorrow]

Horrible pix of the chancellor at the Queen's funeral. I'd come up with an appropriate metaphor but I don't want to be up before the beaks.

 

[john jako]

Never understand why parliament is in a recess during periods of chaos.

 

[dublinbluenose]

 

[mahermi1]

Labour should be concentrating on the tories disastrous policies over the last 12 years, that has brought this Country to its knees, except for the certain few...so many failures start highlighting them now at every opportunity.

 

[Tree13]

I am pretty sure the Mail and Express were supportive!

I continue to be intrigued by the idea that print media holds any real sway over the electorate.

According to figures released on 20 September 2022 by pressgazette.co.uk, the Daily Mail has an average daily circulation of 840,640 copies. The Daily Express fares significantly worse at 188,490.

The combined daily circulation of both these bastions of right-wing politics is a little short of 1.03 million. The population of the UK is currently estimated as being around 68.4 million.

One in every 66.4 people in the UK read the Mail or the Express. Even if the ENTIRE readership fell for the lines fed to them about Kwarteng's budget, they are still a tiny proportion of the electorate.

Kwarteng's budget is disgraceful. A portion of the membership is furious about it, and it isn't just the portion that voted for Sunak instead of Truss. I'm still astonished that she won the leadership ballot, and early signs are that this is going to cause civil war in the Conservative party.

 

[grandjoeblue]

Chloe Smith was a car crash on all of her morning interviews. It seems trying to defend policies that are disgusting is quite difficult.

I can see the no confidence letters going in before Christmas.

They keep mentioning additional jobs when employment figures are extremely high already.

 

[Marius57]

I continue to be intrigued by the idea that print media holds any real sway over the electorate.

According to figures released on 20 September 2022 by pressgazette.co.uk, the Daily Mail has an average daily circulation of 840,640 copies. The Daily Express fares significantly worse at 188,490.

The combined daily circulation of both these bastions of right-wing politics is a little short of 1.03 million. The population of the UK is currently estimated as being around 68.4 million.

One in every 66.4 people in the UK read the Mail or the Express. Even if the ENTIRE readership fell for the lines fed to them about Kwarteng's budget, they are still a tiny proportion of the electorate.

Both of those things exist online and as apps as well though. Whoch will send headlines as notifications. And I'm betting the Mail gets more than 1m hits a day.

 

[Tree13]

Both of those things exist online and as apps as well though. Whoch will send headlines as notifications. And I'm betting the Mail gets more than 1m hits a day.

You could be right pal.

But more people read the Metro than the Mail, and more people watch BBC & C4 than read papers of any type. The TV holds more power than print media IMHO.

 

[Tree13]

Labour should be concentrating on the tories disastrous policies over the last 12 years, that has brought this Country to its knees, except for the certain few...so many failures start highlighting them now at every opportunity.

Hard to do when you have whoppers like Zarah Sultana making a complete mockery of herself on social media. She slagged off the train operator via twitter when her service was delayed last week and cited it as "evidence" that the railways should all be re-nationalised - only for the train company to reply that it was taken back in to public ownership a couple of years ago.

Not as big a deal as Kwarteng's hideous budget, but it drags attention away from serious issues.

 

[allezlesbleus]

I continue to be intrigued by the idea that print media holds any real sway over the electorate.

According to figures released on 20 September 2022 by pressgazette.co.uk, the Daily Mail has an average daily circulation of 840,640 copies. The Daily Express fares significantly worse at 188,490.

The combined daily circulation of both these bastions of right-wing politics is a little short of 1.03 million. The population of the UK is currently estimated as being around 68.4 million.

One in every 66.4 people in the UK read the Mail or the Express. Even if the ENTIRE readership fell for the lines fed to them about Kwarteng's budget, they are still a tiny proportion of the electorate.

Good points, mate, and if you think that if those readers live in safe seats they have even less of an impact on actual outcomes. I would say better to compare readership with voting public rather than population as a whole and add online readership, but I take your point.
One contributory factor among many imo… influence on readers… then on readers’ family and friends… then on work colleagues etc etc. Not NO influence, not TOTAL to the exclusion of all other factors. But their headline writers certainly seemed happy!!

 

[Marius57]

You could be right pal.

But more people read the Metro than the Mail, and more people watch BBC & C4 than read papers of any type. The TV holds more power than print media IMHO.

I agree, the TV will hold more power than traditional print media. But I think most news now is spread via apps and websites and people will turn to TV when they are aware of something happening because of what they have seen on their phone.

And ultimately people read headlines and many don't actually read the information in the articles etc. So places like the daily mail use really misleading headlines to meet their target audience.

 

[Tin-Tin]

surely kwarteng has to resign

He's doing exactly what he's been put there to do. Make the Tory donors richer and help his hedge fund mates earn £££

 

[bluestevon]

Hard to do when you have whoppers like Zarah Sultana making a complete mockery of herself on social media. She slagged off the train operator via twitter when her service was delayed last week and cited it as "evidence" that the railways should all be re-nationalised - only for the train company to reply that it was taken back in to public ownership a couple of years ago.

Not as big a deal as Kwarteng's hideous budget, but it drags attention away from serious issues.

That's what happens when you have a complete generation of politicians who see bring one as a career path rather than a calling