Sunak's progress on "5 promises"
Sunak's progress on "5 promises"
The prime minister said these five priorities should be used to hold his government to account.
I still can't believe one of them was "stop the boats".
Of the others:
- Halve inflation (still a long way to go)
- Grow the economy (economy is board flat)
- Cut the national debt (debt has now risen to 100% GDP)
- Cut NHS waiting lists (waiting lists now even longer)
Maybe you guys should try another rich asshole who couldn't care less about you surviving the next few years. We keep doing it in America and it's going great...
In our defense, no one voted for Rishi Rich, he's the result of the Tory party falling apart and having three leaders in one Parliament.
There’s a big difference between the deficit and debt there friend. UK debt is 100% of GDP, not great but not a catastrophe.
Corrected, thanks. Too many billboards of Cameron going "I'll cut the deficit" in 2009 rotted my brain, I think.
Yup, financial illiteracy of the UK public strikes again!
At this point, I really hope Reform UK makes some progress at the next general election. The Tories are weak on almost everything, including the economy, and Labour have no hope of being anything but the same.
I'm assuming you mean to bleed ultra-right-wing tories away from the main party, splitting the vote?
I'm still amazed they were permitted to make their logo an arrow pointing towards the box on the voting form.
I’m still amazed they were permitted to make their logo an arrow pointing towards the box on the voting form.
This was a pretty genius (and dubious) move, surprised it was allowed too.Did you ever read the Brexit Party manifesto? I don't see how it makes them 'ultra-right-wing tories'. These are a few pieces from the manifesto:
No privatisation of the NHS
Cutting VAT on domestic fuel
Banning the UK exporting its waste
Providing free broadband in deprived regions
Scrapping the television licence fee
Abolishing inheritance tax
Scrapping High Speed 2 (HS2)
Abolishing interest on student loans
Changing planning to help house building
Reforming the Supreme Court
Reform the voting system to make it more representative
Abolish the House of Lords
Making MPs who switch parties subject to recall petitions
Reform the postal voting system to combat fraud
Introduce Citizens’ Initiatives to allow people to call referendums, subject to a 5 million threshold of registered voter signatures and time limitations on repeat votes
Nope sorry we will lurch from Tory to Labour to Tory to Labour again and again as long as first past the post is the voting system.
Labour have made cute noises about electoral reform but I really can't see them doing anything about this when in power. Suddenly it will be "not a priority at this point in time".