tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post7370997948730025832..comments2024-03-28T09:55:42.123+00:00Comments on Capitalists@Work: Boris Shows Up May for the Useless Politician She IsCityUnslickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15929544047783163175noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-83831014663396368252018-01-29T17:38:49.950+00:002018-01-29T17:38:49.950+00:00There are some difficulties with giving the NHS £1...There are some difficulties with giving the NHS £160m a week extra:<br /><br />* It is not £350m a week, and the "Vote Leave" explicitly promised £350m a week, and that's why Boris is playing recklessly that card:<br />https://s26.postimg.org/68dbqciyh/Boris-_Johnson-574738.jpg<br />"Let's give our NHS the £350 million the EU takes every week Vote Leave"<br /><br />* A Conservative chancellor is rated by his party on only one achievement: cutting spending, not increasing it.<br /><br />* To give an extra £350m a week a Conservative chancellor would have to cut that much (and more, given expectations of lower tax revenues) from other departments, and most are close to breaking point, precisely because the NHS budget has been ring-fenced.Blissexnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-89735696154458667542018-01-25T09:06:19.878+00:002018-01-25T09:06:19.878+00:00The other difference was that you knew what thatch...The other difference was that you knew what thatcher was for ... I cannot say the same of may.<br />If she had a Falklands moment, what would she do next?<br /><br />You assume those election losing policies were nick timothy's but they may have been hersandrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07311993288675111834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-69132573374190286272018-01-24T18:19:04.771+00:002018-01-24T18:19:04.771+00:00Good chap, anon - we like History Corner items aro...Good chap, anon - we like History Corner items around hereNick Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670594203660051701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-63499466747760471902018-01-24T13:38:41.599+00:002018-01-24T13:38:41.599+00:00Of course, I'm probably doing the equivalent o...Of course, I'm probably doing the equivalent of Hitler in the bunker fantasising abouut Frederick The Great Escape.<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_the_House_of_BrandenburgAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-3194248974908150522018-01-24T13:33:34.852+00:002018-01-24T13:33:34.852+00:00If Boris sinks May and scuppers Brexit (and we kno...If Boris sinks May and scuppers Brexit (and we know he has no principled view on it either way - he used to write Telegraph columns arguing for Turkey to be admitted) then 'twould be an evil deed.<br /><br />A thought occurs, just a tiny flicker of light - I can remember another Tory PM, a couple of years in (though with a decent majority), terrible polls, generally looked on as a joke ("she's impressive, she does the job of two men (long pause) - Laurel and Hardy"), high inflation AND unemployment.<br /><br />Then some chap in Argentina decided to bail her out. The rest is history. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-38415467939896505292018-01-24T10:57:13.235+00:002018-01-24T10:57:13.235+00:00The theory is Boris keeps demanding more NHS cash ...The theory is Boris keeps demanding more NHS cash until May definitively says no! And he resigns or she sacks him.<br /><br />At that point, he challenges the leader. On a positive view of Brexit. And using the Corbyn tactic of promising over and over and over, to everyone and every sector, the £350,000,000 a week. <br /><br />The end of austerity. And the cash for all free stuff.<br /><br />Personally, if it topples May, I'm happy if he gives it a tryBill Quango MPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14861116614665461655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-23697192996062699972018-01-23T22:19:14.717+00:002018-01-23T22:19:14.717+00:00Jesus, he's only 36?! He looks like a mid-50s ...Jesus, he's only 36?! He looks like a mid-50s candidate for a coronary.Charlienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-3483736899240668482018-01-23T21:41:37.963+00:002018-01-23T21:41:37.963+00:00Dick - @ Seriously, what kind of jesse lets a 36 y...<b>Dick</b> - @ <i>Seriously, what kind of jesse lets a 36 year old kid, irrespective how old his beard makes him look, loose on areas of the manifesto that he clearly hasn;t got the first frikkin' idea about?</i><br /><br />by their acolytes shall ye know them<br /><br />(it's how I knew John Moore was never going to be Thatcher's successor - when I met his entourage of chancers and useless)Nick Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670594203660051701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-39819962897154745892018-01-23T21:40:25.527+00:002018-01-23T21:40:25.527+00:00@Graeme - I love Andy Bonar Law if only for the wo...@Graeme - I love Andy Bonar Law if only for the wonderfully comedic name. Apparently he couldn't really look after himself and lived off sandwiches whilst being a workaholic hence his far too early demise. To think, he, Chruchill and Dave Lloyd George were damn good mates who all went on to run the country and none of them had anything at all in common with each other. And today we get whatever the hell this is - hmm...Dick the Prickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02683095612320513712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-80829901310022970212018-01-23T21:33:55.605+00:002018-01-23T21:33:55.605+00:00The Bonar Law government looks more charismatic by...The Bonar Law government looks more charismatic by the day Graemehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11007306140530173428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-81565461933548391982018-01-23T21:03:28.325+00:002018-01-23T21:03:28.325+00:00The second para relates to Macron and Marr The second para relates to Macron and Marr Graemehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11007306140530173428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-14314033426100672362018-01-23T21:02:55.247+00:002018-01-23T21:02:55.247+00:00Timothy had this fetish, a weird fascination with ...Timothy had this fetish, a weird fascination with Jo Chamberlain and felt it his purpose to reform the Tory Party into some low, wet, sort of ersatz turn of the 20th century Liberal Party. Nothing wrong with that, I guess. But what is wrong is a) the prick wasn't elected, b) he was given free rein, c) the conceited twat didn't consult, d) the thick twat hadn't done the research and didn't have a clue what he was banging on about (i'm older than him and have been to shit loads more committees than him and it's left me daunted) and e) failed to do any consequence analysis because he has the political antennae of a blob.<br /><br /> Seriously, what kind of jesse lets a 36 year old kid, irrespective how old his beard makes him look, loose on areas of the manifesto that he clearly hasn;t got the first frikkin' idea about?<br /><br /> Oooh, it does vex me so.Dick the Prickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02683095612320513712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-587104845712311012018-01-23T21:02:40.507+00:002018-01-23T21:02:40.507+00:00The so-called dementia tax was actually a good ide...The so-called dementia tax was actually a good idea but... How was it going to play with a set of ageing homeowners?<br /><br />If France tv ever shows the interview where he guesses that France would vote for Frexit, that would be interesting Graemehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11007306140530173428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-1130919814136970972018-01-23T20:51:48.952+00:002018-01-23T20:51:48.952+00:00@ a multi-year period of silence would have been i...@ <i>a multi-year period of silence would have been in order</i><br /><br />too bloody right, Anon - he had his Big Chance, he blew it, he damaged his Party beyond estimation, we never want to see or hear him againNick Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670594203660051701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-63150073629930658592018-01-23T19:57:22.297+00:002018-01-23T19:57:22.297+00:00I see Nick Timothy is putting himself about in the...I see Nick Timothy is putting himself about in the media - I have some sympathy with many of his views, but after the fiasco of the last election I think a multi-year period of silence would have been in order. <br /><br />Have you no shame, sir? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-72372811838041934562018-01-23T19:32:21.477+00:002018-01-23T19:32:21.477+00:00She's either a useless politician or she's...She's either a useless politician or she's following to the letter the orders given to her by her handlers.John in Cheshirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16304578727119582195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-74284437891015277022018-01-23T18:15:09.450+00:002018-01-23T18:15:09.450+00:00That would require May to ignore her prime directi...That would require May to ignore her prime directive to give people nothing at all, to make them sweat.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-45520951694863633292018-01-23T16:25:31.324+00:002018-01-23T16:25:31.324+00:00It's true that she's useless, but as I'...It's true that she's useless, but as I've said before, if she gets us out of the EU, I’ll be like Karlsefni praising Freydis Eiriksdottir after she fought the Skraelings – <i>“she’s done evil things, but I for one will honour her from this day”</i>.<br /><br />The relatively benign economic outlook, as even Goldman Jim O'Neill accepts, gives us a great chance that the exit hit will not be too vicious. <br /><br />But of course the EU want to encourager les autres, which raises the chance of a hard Brexit - and there's always the possibility that the Blairite stay-behinds will try a coup at that point, supported by the Clarks and Heseltines, not to mention the Lords and probably the judiciary. 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