May is a (nanny) Statist Tory. She genuinely believes that the State is likely to be a part of the solution rather than a part of the problem. It's Tory Jim, but not as we know it.
The state is part of the solution because the only way you will break up the dominant market players is through Govt action.
A true market economy needs the state to deal with market abuse-Tories should be actively seeking the state to deal with these abuses.
SME's are the drivers of innovation job creation and growth-not big business.
There is a role for the State in setting the rules and the dimensions of the playing field. But she wants to go a lot further than that. I think she is suspicious of freedom and cautious about innovation. Things can always be worse.
May is a dullard, pure and simple. She wants a Britain cloyed by mediocrity, piousness and conformity. She is a curtain-twitching meddler with no time for creativity, metropolitan attitudes or unorthodox lives.
The interesting speculation is who will lead the first attempted defenestration, and on what issue.
She won't be defenestered whilst she's riding high in the polls, and sorting Brexit.
But, the Party will want her gone very soon after GE2022 if this is her philosophical approach.
I thought you were over the moon about getting your party back from the Cameron/Osborne mafia?
I am pleased she is sorting Brexit and serious about controlling immigration.
I am not pleased if she is tacking hard to the Left on economics.
Edit: and I actually quite liked the 2015GE Tory manifesto, for the record.
May is a (nanny) Statist Tory. She genuinely believes that the State is likely to be a part of the solution rather than a part of the problem. It's Tory Jim, but not as we know it.
The state is part of the solution because the only way you will break up the dominant market players is through Govt action.
A true market economy needs the state to deal with market abuse-Tories should be actively seeking the state to deal with these abuses.
SME's are the drivers of innovation job creation and growth-not big business.
There is a role for the State in setting the rules and the dimensions of the playing field. But she wants to go a lot further than that. I think she is suspicious of freedom and cautious about innovation. Things can always be worse.
May is a dullard, pure and simple. She wants a Britain cloyed by mediocrity, piousness and conformity. She is a curtain-twitching meddler with no time for creativity, metropolitan attitudes or unorthodox lives.
The interesting speculation is who will lead the first attempted defenestration, and on what issue.
She won't be defenestered whilst she's riding high in the polls, and sorting Brexit.
But, the Party will want her gone very soon after GE2022 if this is her philosophical approach.
Had a chat last night with someone who was utterly convinced she will quit well before that. Reckons she'll serve three years, tops, then resign.
Yep, was rooting for Wednesday. Bad luck fella. Huddersfield cheated earlier in the season by playing a weakened team against Brum that probably sent Blackburn down, or could have relegated Forest. Not good to see them progress.
May is a (nanny) Statist Tory. She genuinely believes that the State is likely to be a part of the solution rather than a part of the problem. It's Tory Jim, but not as we know it.
The state is part of the solution because the only way you will break up the dominant market players is through Govt action.
A true market economy needs the state to deal with market abuse-Tories should be actively seeking the state to deal with these abuses.
SME's are the drivers of innovation job creation and growth-not big business.
There is a role for the State in setting the rules and the dimensions of the playing field. But she wants to go a lot further than that. I think she is suspicious of freedom and cautious about innovation. Things can always be worse.
May is a dullard, pure and simple. She wants a Britain cloyed by mediocrity, piousness and conformity. She is a curtain-twitching meddler with no time for creativity, metropolitan attitudes or unorthodox lives.
The interesting speculation is who will lead the first attempted defenestration, and on what issue.
She won't be defenestered whilst she's riding high in the polls, and sorting Brexit.
But, the Party will want her gone very soon after GE2022 if this is her philosophical approach.
Had a chat last night with someone who was utterly convinced she will quit well before that. Reckons she'll serve three years, tops, then resign.
May is a (nanny) Statist Tory. She genuinely believes that the State is likely to be a part of the solution rather than a part of the problem. It's Tory Jim, but not as we know it.
The state is part of the solution because the only way you will break up the dominant market players is through Govt action.
A true market economy needs the state to deal with market abuse-Tories should be actively seeking the state to deal with these abuses.
SME's are the drivers of innovation job creation and growth-not big business.
There is a role for the State in setting the rules and the dimensions of the playing field. But she wants to go a lot further than that. I think she is suspicious of freedom and cautious about innovation. Things can always be worse.
May is a dullard, pure and simple. She wants a Britain cloyed by mediocrity, piousness and conformity. She is a curtain-twitching meddler with no time for creativity, metropolitan attitudes or unorthodox lives.
The interesting speculation is who will lead the first attempted defenestration, and on what issue.
She won't be defenestered whilst she's riding high in the polls, and sorting Brexit.
But, the Party will want her gone very soon after GE2022 if this is her philosophical approach.
Had a chat last night with someone who was utterly convinced she will quit well before that. Reckons she'll serve three years, tops, then resign.
May is a (nanny) Statist Tory. She genuinely believes that the State is likely to be a part of the solution rather than a part of the problem. It's Tory Jim, but not as we know it.
The state is part of the solution because the only way you will break up the dominant market players is through Govt action.
A true market economy needs the state to deal with market abuse-Tories should be actively seeking the state to deal with these abuses.
SME's are the drivers of innovation job creation and growth-not big business.
There is a role for the State in setting the rules and the dimensions of the playing field. But she wants to go a lot further than that. I think she is suspicious of freedom and cautious about innovation. Things can always be worse.
May is a dullard, pure and simple. She wants a Britain cloyed by mediocrity, piousness and conformity. She is a curtain-twitching meddler with no time for creativity, metropolitan attitudes or unorthodox lives.
The interesting speculation is who will lead the first attempted defenestration, and on what issue.
She won't be defenestered whilst she's riding high in the polls, and sorting Brexit.
But, the Party will want her gone very soon after GE2022 if this is her philosophical approach.
Had a chat last night with someone who was utterly convinced she will quit well before that. Reckons she'll serve three years, tops, then resign.
Stop the presses!
If you want a crazy unsubstantiated rumour, try this:
I love the way that he starts with a slightly far-fetched rumour (Fox to be Chancellor), then moves on to "evidence" that Hammond might be out, to conclude that the original 'rumour' must be correct. Even though whilst the second is undoubtedly a necessary criteria for the first to happen, it is by no means a sufficient one!
And the grief I got when I suggested Theresa May was a Butskellite.
Who gave you grief?
I don't remember that.
It was one of the few threads I've written when I was taken aback by the hostile reception. Usually I have a pretty fair idea who's going to be moaning and why.
Typical tory response to possible weakness in their campaigning today is on the bbc website "Tories pledge further immigration curbs". They obviously feel safer with Bluekip line of "blame it on "johnny foreignor" and keep them out! Appealing to the lowest common denominator perhaps? When are they going to be taken to task on education and the NHS?
So, sod off Aussies, Kiwis, Canadians with your shared language, norms, beliefs and values and your Commonwealth ties, meanwhile let's have another two years of unfettered, low-skilled immigration from Romania and beyond.
May is a (nanny) Statist Tory. She genuinely believes that the State is likely to be a part of the solution rather than a part of the problem. It's Tory Jim, but not as we know it.
The state is part of the solution because the only way you will break up the dominant market players is through Govt action.
A true market economy needs the state to deal with market abuse-Tories should be actively seeking the state to deal with these abuses.
SME's are the drivers of innovation job creation and growth-not big business.
There is a role for the State in setting the rules and the dimensions of the playing field. But she wants to go a lot further than that. I think she is suspicious of freedom and cautious about innovation. Things can always be worse.
May is a dullard, pure and simple. She wants a Britain cloyed by mediocrity, piousness and conformity. She is a curtain-twitching meddler with no time for creativity, metropolitan attitudes or unorthodox lives.
The interesting speculation is who will lead the first attempted defenestration, and on what issue.
She won't be defenestered whilst she's riding high in the polls, and sorting Brexit.
But, the Party will want her gone very soon after GE2022 if this is her philosophical approach.
Nah, leadership challenge from Priti in the autumn!
400 MPs is tricky to keep a lot of restive backbenchers as lobby fodder, particularly if we have some prominent cabinet exits (both Phil Hammond and Boris look like their days are numbered.
It is only a matter of time before the troops get mutinous.
So, sod off Aussies, Kiwis, Canadians with your shared language, norms, beliefs and values and your Commonwealth ties, meanwhile let's have another two years of unfettered, low-skilled immigration from Romania and beyond.
Can't do anything about EU migration until we are out, unfortunately. Suspect visa rules will become uniform afterwards unless some sort of deal is made with the EU post exit.
So, sod off Aussies, Kiwis, Canadians with your shared language, norms, beliefs and values and your Commonwealth ties, meanwhile let's have another two years of unfettered, low-skilled immigration from Romania and beyond.
Pedantic point: where in the EU is beyond Romania? Don't let facts get in the way of an anti-European rant.
So, sod off Aussies, Kiwis, Canadians with your shared language, norms, beliefs and values and your Commonwealth ties, meanwhile let's have another two years of unfettered, low-skilled immigration from Romania and beyond.
Pedantic point: where in the EU is beyond Romania? Don't let facts get in the way of an anti-European rant.
So, sod off Aussies, Kiwis, Canadians with your shared language, norms, beliefs and values and your Commonwealth ties, meanwhile let's have another two years of unfettered, low-skilled immigration from Romania and beyond.
Pedantic point: where in the EU is beyond Romania? Don't let facts get in the way of an anti-European rant.
So, sod off Aussies, Kiwis, Canadians with your shared language, norms, beliefs and values and your Commonwealth ties, meanwhile let's have another two years of unfettered, low-skilled immigration from Romania and beyond.
Pedantic point: where in the EU is beyond Romania? Don't let facts get in the way of an anti-European rant.
May is a (nanny) Statist Tory. She genuinely believes that the State is likely to be a part of the solution rather than a part of the problem. It's Tory Jim, but not as we know it.
The state is part of the solution because the only way you will break up the dominant market players is through Govt action.
A true market economy needs the state to deal with market abuse-Tories should be actively seeking the state to deal with these abuses.
SME's are the drivers of innovation job creation and growth-not big business.
There is a role for the State in setting the rules and the dimensions of the playing field. But she wants to go a lot further than that. I think she is suspicious of freedom and cautious about innovation. Things can always be worse.
May is a dullard, pure and simple. She wants a Britain cloyed by mediocrity, piousness and conformity. She is a curtain-twitching meddler with no time for creativity, metropolitan attitudes or unorthodox lives.
The interesting speculation is who will lead the first attempted defenestration, and on what issue.
She won't be defenestered whilst she's riding high in the polls, and sorting Brexit.
But, the Party will want her gone very soon after GE2022 if this is her philosophical approach.
Had a chat last night with someone who was utterly convinced she will quit well before that. Reckons she'll serve three years, tops, then resign.
100% agreed and have had a similar conversation with local candidate.
She is 61 in October and her type 1 diabetes will catch up with her. 2019- walks after Brexit -"time for someone else to lead us to sunny uplands etc"
So, sod off Aussies, Kiwis, Canadians with your shared language, norms, beliefs and values and your Commonwealth ties, meanwhile let's have another two years of unfettered, low-skilled immigration from Romania and beyond.
Pedantic point: where in the EU is beyond Romania? Don't let facts get in the way of an anti-European rant.
France (New Caledonia and French Polynesia)?
What better way to reply to a pedantic point than with an even more pedantic one?
So, sod off Aussies, Kiwis, Canadians with your shared language, norms, beliefs and values and your Commonwealth ties, meanwhile let's have another two years of unfettered, low-skilled immigration from Romania and beyond.
Pedantic point: where in the EU is beyond Romania? Don't let facts get in the way of an anti-European rant.
In fact, it's not even £1,000 per year, it's £1,000 for employing the migrant and then £1,000 every time their visa is renewed - and some visas last 5+ years.
May is a (nanny) Statist Tory. She genuinely believes that the State is likely to be a part of the solution rather than a part of the problem. It's Tory Jim, but not as we know it.
The state is part of the solution because the only way you will break up the dominant market players is through Govt action.
A true market economy needs the state to deal with market abuse-Tories should be actively seeking the state to deal with these abuses.
SME's are the drivers of innovation job creation and growth-not big business.
There is a role for the State in setting the rules and the dimensions of the playing field. But she wants to go a lot further than that. I think she is suspicious of freedom and cautious about innovation. Things can always be worse.
May is a dullard, pure and simple. She wants a Britain cloyed by mediocrity, piousness and conformity. She is a curtain-twitching meddler with no time for creativity, metropolitan attitudes or unorthodox lives.
The interesting speculation is who will lead the first attempted defenestration, and on what issue.
She won't be defenestered whilst she's riding high in the polls, and sorting Brexit.
But, the Party will want her gone very soon after GE2022 if this is her philosophical approach.
Had a chat last night with someone who was utterly convinced she will quit well before that. Reckons she'll serve three years, tops, then resign.
100% agreed and have had a similar conversation with local candidate.
She is 61 in October and her type 1 diabetes will catch up with her. 2019- walks after Brexit -"time for someone else to lead us to sunny uplands etc"
I think that she is Jezza like, and will need to be prised from post.
The rebels will come from the right. They always do.
May is a (nanny) Statist Tory. She genuinely believes that the State is likely to be a part of the solution rather than a part of the problem. It's Tory Jim, but not as we know it.
The state is part of the solution because the only way you will break up the dominant market players is through Govt action.
A true market economy needs the state to deal with market abuse-Tories should be actively seeking the state to deal with these abuses.
SME's are the drivers of innovation job creation and growth-not big business.
There is a role for the State in setting the rules and the dimensions of the playing field. But she wants to go a lot further than that. I think she is suspicious of freedom and cautious about innovation. Things can always be worse.
May is a dullard, pure and simple. She wants a Britain cloyed by mediocrity, piousness and conformity. She is a curtain-twitching meddler with no time for creativity, metropolitan attitudes or unorthodox lives.
The interesting speculation is who will lead the first attempted defenestration, and on what issue.
She won't be defenestered whilst she's riding high in the polls, and sorting Brexit.
But, the Party will want her gone very soon after GE2022 if this is her philosophical approach.
Had a chat last night with someone who was utterly convinced she will quit well before that. Reckons she'll serve three years, tops, then resign.
100% agreed and have had a similar conversation with local candidate.
She is 61 in October and her type 1 diabetes will catch up with her. 2019- walks after Brexit -"time for someone else to lead us to sunny uplands etc"
I'm surprised she even manages to walk about unaided!
Typical tory response to possible weakness in their campaigning today is on the bbc website "Tories pledge further immigration curbs". They obviously feel safer with Bluekip line of "blame it on "johnny foreignor" and keep them out! Appealing to the lowest common denominator perhaps? When are they going to be taken to task on education and the NHS?
First, while I don't care about immigration, most people clearly do. Maybe not to the extent the Tories as a whole generally care, but most people have concerns about the level. I don't support their policy on this, and given their past failures on it I don't know why this time they should be believed, but it will be more popular than it is disliked, no surprise there. Just as most of Labour's policies were popular. Though it is notable plenty of Tories will not be happy with even this policy.
Secondly, as for being taken to task on the NHS, no one ever shuts up about how the NHS is in crisis, I have heard it my entire adult life, and frankly, I am inured to any bad news coming out of it, because having been told its in crisis my whole adult life, I struggle to work up the will to care. Is the coming crisis worse than the last one? How would I know?
I don't know if my attitude on that is even remotely common among some people, but even if it is not the Tories are 'taken to task' on the NHS constantly - if they still get re-elected, either the public do not care, or they think the opposition would do no better, or they think the Tories are doing ok on it.
Because that's the stone cold truth about a lot of issues - one side may say the other misled, but that's just it, they said it, they were able to rebut it, and if people still vote the other way despite being told the 'truth'? Well, the problem is really the voters then, at least partly.
"She will reject a cap on overall care costs but say no family should see their assets depleted below £100,000, an increase on the current £23,250 figure."
May is a (nanny) Statist Tory. She genuinely believes that the State is likely to be a part of the solution rather than a part of the problem. It's Tory Jim, but not as we know it.
The state is part of the solution because the only way you will break up the dominant market players is through Govt action.
A true market economy needs the state to deal with market abuse-Tories should be actively seeking the state to deal with these abuses.
SME's are the drivers of innovation job creation and growth-not big business.
No the state is the problem.
Let me tell you the golden rule, - The people with the gold make the rules!
All the rules and regulations that the government comes out with don't 'constringe business' they disproportionally hold back new and small businesses, leaving the market to a smaller number of established and often inefficient firms that drive up prises.
So, sod off Aussies, Kiwis, Canadians with your shared language, norms, beliefs and values and your Commonwealth ties, meanwhile let's have another two years of unfettered, low-skilled immigration from Romania and beyond.
Pedantic point: where in the EU is beyond Romania? Don't let facts get in the way of an anti-European rant.
May is a (nanny) Statist Tory. She genuinely believes that the State is likely to be a part of the solution rather than a part of the problem. It's Tory Jim, but not as we know it.
The state is part of the solution because the only way you will break up the dominant market players is through Govt action.
A true market economy needs the state to deal with market abuse-Tories should be actively seeking the state to deal with these abuses.
SME's are the drivers of innovation job creation and growth-not big business.
There is a role for the State in setting the rules and the dimensions of the playing field. But she wants to go a lot further than that. I think she is suspicious of freedom and cautious about innovation. Things can always be worse.
May is a dullard, pure and simple. She wants a Britain cloyed by mediocrity, piousness and conformity. She is a curtain-twitching meddler with no time for creativity, metropolitan attitudes or unorthodox lives.
The interesting speculation is who will lead the first attempted defenestration, and on what issue.
She won't be defenestered whilst she's riding high in the polls, and sorting Brexit.
But, the Party will want her gone very soon after GE2022 if this is her philosophical approach.
Had a chat last night with someone who was utterly convinced she will quit well before that. Reckons she'll serve three years, tops, then resign.
100% agreed and have had a similar conversation with local candidate.
She is 61 in October and her type 1 diabetes will catch up with her. 2019- walks after Brexit -"time for someone else to lead us to sunny uplands etc"
I think that she is Jezza like, and will need to be prised from post.
The rebels will come from the right. They always do.
Mail spinning it all very positively for May - main headline:
"You won't have to sell home to pay for your care"
And that Winter Fuel cut is to fund the above.
Other papers going with same narrative - it's as if May has written the headlines herself.
Looking at the paper headlines seems the social care package is received quite well.
Speaking personally my wife and I do not need the winter fuel allowance and if it means we can retain £100,000 in our estate rather than £23,000 we consider it a fair deal.
Speaking to our Canadian family and friends here in Vancouver they had no idea EU citizens could just come into the UK at will, unlike Canada that has very strict immigration rules. Furthermore on refugees, they only accept families and absolutely no single men on their own. They are not happy with the illegal migration taking place across the US - Canada border at present either.
Indeed which Country anywhere, outside the EU, allows unrestricted movement into their Country.
May is a (nanny) Statist Tory. She genuinely believes that the State is likely to be a part of the solution rather than a part of the problem. It's Tory Jim, but not as we know it.
The state is part of the solution because the only way you will break up the dominant market players is through Govt action.
A true market economy needs the state to deal with market abuse-Tories should be actively seeking the state to deal with these abuses.
SME's are the drivers of innovation job creation and growth-not big business.
There is a role for the State in setting the rules and the dimensions of the playing field. But she wants to go a lot further than that. I think she is suspicious of freedom and cautious about innovation. Things can always be worse.
May is a dullard, pure and simple. She wants a Britain cloyed by mediocrity, piousness and conformity. She is a curtain-twitching meddler with no time for creativity, metropolitan attitudes or unorthodox lives.
The interesting speculation is who will lead the first attempted defenestration, and on what issue.
She won't be defenestered whilst she's riding high in the polls, and sorting Brexit.
But, the Party will want her gone very soon after GE2022 if this is her philosophical approach.
Had a chat last night with someone who was utterly convinced she will quit well before that. Reckons she'll serve three years, tops, then resign.
100% agreed and have had a similar conversation with local candidate.
She is 61 in October and her type 1 diabetes will catch up with her. 2019- walks after Brexit -"time for someone else to lead us to sunny uplands etc"
I think that she is Jezza like, and will need to be prised from post.
The rebels will come from the right. They always do.
Happy to offer you £20 at evens that May is gone by the Party Conference of 2020
In fact, it's not even £1,000 per year, it's £1,000 for employing the migrant and then £1,000 every time their visa is renewed - and some visas last 5+ years.
What kind of salaries are these non-EEA people on? £7.50 an hour, zero hours contracts?
May is a (nanny) Statist Tory. She genuinely believes that the State is likely to be a part of the solution rather than a part of the problem. It's Tory Jim, but not as we know it.
The state is part of the solution because the only way you will break up the dominant market players is through Govt action.
A true market economy needs the state to deal with market abuse-Tories should be actively seeking the state to deal with these abuses.
SME's are the drivers of innovation job creation and growth-not big business.
There is a role for the State in setting the rules and the dimensions of the playing field. But she wants to go a lot further than that. I think she is suspicious of freedom and cautious about innovation. Things can always be worse.
May is a dullard, pure and simple. She wants a Britain cloyed by mediocrity, piousness and conformity. She is a curtain-twitching meddler with no time for creativity, metropolitan attitudes or unorthodox lives.
The interesting speculation is who will lead the first attempted defenestration, and on what issue.
She won't be defenestered whilst she's riding high in the polls, and sorting Brexit.
But, the Party will want her gone very soon after GE2022 if this is her philosophical approach.
Had a chat last night with someone who was utterly convinced she will quit well before that. Reckons she'll serve three years, tops, then resign.
100% agreed and have had a similar conversation with local candidate.
She is 61 in October and her type 1 diabetes will catch up with her. 2019- walks after Brexit -"time for someone else to lead us to sunny uplands etc"
I'm surprised she even manages to walk about unaided!
Mail spinning it all very positively for May - main headline:
"You won't have to sell home to pay for your care"
And that Winter Fuel cut is to fund the above.
Other papers going with same narrative - it's as if May has written the headlines herself.
What should be interesting is that given Labour are promising a spending splurge, and the LDs a more modest splurge, the Tory manifesto will surely contain more obvious 'negative' promises of cuts and the like. People claim they want honesty, but I've always doubted that when it comes to promising a land of free bread and subsidised honey for all, and with the Tories likely to win anyway I wonder how bold May will be in being realistic and even harsh if needed.
On evidence to date, not very bold, except when parking tanks on opposing lawns, but we shall see.
Mail spinning it all very positively for May - main headline:
"You won't have to sell home to pay for your care"
And that Winter Fuel cut is to fund the above.
Other papers going with same narrative - it's as if May has written the headlines herself.
What should be interesting is that given Labour are promising a spending splurge, and the LDs a more modest splurge, the Tory manifesto will surely contain more obvious 'negative' promises of cuts and the like. People claim they want honesty, but I've always doubted that when it comes to promising a land of free bread and subsidised honey for all, and with the Tories likely to win anyway I wonder how bold May will be in being realistic and even harsh if needed.
On evidence to date, not very bold, except when parking tanks on opposing lawns, but we shall see.
Sounds like the Tory one is moving the money around. So net zero impact in terms of spending. Telegraph are reporting deficit elimination by middle of 2020s, which would mean we'd have been in deficit for 17 years. Really hope that is managing expectations.
May is a (nanny) Statist Tory. She genuinely believes that the State is likely to be a part of the solution rather than a part of the problem. It's Tory Jim, but not as we know it.
The state is part of the solution because the only way you will break up the dominant market players is through Govt action.
A true market economy needs the state to deal with market abuse-Tories should be actively seeking the state to deal with these abuses.
SME's are the drivers of innovation job creation and growth-not big business.
No the state is the problem.
Let me tell you the golden rule, - The people with the gold make the rules!
All the rules and regulations that the government comes out with don't 'constringe business' they disproportionally hold back new and small businesses, leaving the market to a smaller number of established and often inefficient firms that drive up prises.
Yes in reality that is often what happens-but that doesn't mean the state NEVER gets it right.
But as i have repeatedly said -i expect to be underwhelmed.
Every campaign in every elections makes some mistakes and misses some oppertunateys, but this seems a totally unforced and unneeded error at this stage.
Mail spinning it all very positively for May - main headline:
"You won't have to sell home to pay for your care"
And that Winter Fuel cut is to fund the above.
Other papers going with same narrative - it's as if May has written the headlines herself.
What should be interesting is that given Labour are promising a spending splurge, and the LDs a more modest splurge, the Tory manifesto will surely contain more obvious 'negative' promises of cuts and the like. People claim they want honesty, but I've always doubted that when it comes to promising a land of free bread and subsidised honey for all, and with the Tories likely to win anyway I wonder how bold May will be in being realistic and even harsh if needed.
On evidence to date, not very bold, except when parking tanks on opposing lawns, but we shall see.
Sounds like the Tory one is moving the money around. So net zero impact in terms of spending. Telegraph are reporting deficit elimination by middle of 2020s, which would mean we'd have been in deficit for 17 years. Really hope that is managing expectations.
LDs promising to eliminate deficit in 'day to day spending' by 2020, Labour by 2022.
So, sod off Aussies, Kiwis, Canadians with your shared language, norms, beliefs and values and your Commonwealth ties, meanwhile let's have another two years of unfettered, low-skilled immigration from Romania and beyond.
Pedantic point: where in the EU is beyond Romania? Don't let facts get in the way of an anti-European rant.
France (New Caledonia and French Polynesia)?
Nicosia 3223km, Bucharest 2093 km
Don't let facts get in the way of ignorance
The Canary Islands are even further away but that's not the point.
May is a (nanny) Statist Tory. She genuinely believes that the State is likely to be a part of the solution rather than a part of the problem. It's Tory Jim, but not as we know it.
The state is part of the solution because the only way you will break up the dominant market players is through Govt action.
A true market economy needs the state to deal with market abuse-Tories should be actively seeking the state to deal with these abuses.
SME's are the drivers of innovation job creation and growth-not big business.
There is a role for the State in setting the rules and the dimensions of the playing field. But she wants to go a lot further than that. I think she is suspicious of freedom and cautious about innovation. Things can always be worse.
May is a dullard, pure and simple. She wants a Britain cloyed by mediocrity, piousness and conformity. She is a curtain-twitching meddler with no time for creativity, metropolitan attitudes or unorthodox lives.
The interesting speculation is who will lead the first attempted defenestration, and on what issue.
She won't be defenestered whilst she's riding high in the polls, and sorting Brexit.
But, the Party will want her gone very soon after GE2022 if this is her philosophical approach.
That will then be the time when the door is finally opened for Labour, a lot of the current Tory vote is a May vote not a Tory vote as such (indeed the same was true for Cameron) once May goes if Labour have finally got rid of Corbynism they should be able to finally win another general election
May is a (nanny) Statist Tory. She genuinely believes that the State is likely to be a part of the solution rather than a part of the problem. It's Tory Jim, but not as we know it.
The state is part of the solution because the only way you will break up the dominant market players is through Govt action.
A true market economy needs the state to deal with market abuse-Tories should be actively seeking the state to deal with these abuses.
SME's are the drivers of innovation job creation and growth-not big business.
There is a role for the State in setting the rules and the dimensions of the playing field. But she wants to go a lot further than that. I think she is suspicious of freedom and cautious about innovation. Things can always be worse.
May is a dullard, pure and simple. She wants a Britain cloyed by mediocrity, piousness and conformity. She is a curtain-twitching meddler with no time for creativity, metropolitan attitudes or unorthodox lives.
The interesting speculation is who will lead the first attempted defenestration, and on what issue.
She won't be defenestered whilst she's riding high in the polls, and sorting Brexit.
But, the Party will want her gone very soon after GE2022 if this is her philosophical approach.
Had a chat last night with someone who was utterly convinced she will quit well before that. Reckons she'll serve three years, tops, then resign.
100% agreed and have had a similar conversation with local candidate.
She is 61 in October and her type 1 diabetes will catch up with her. 2019- walks after Brexit -"time for someone else to lead us to sunny uplands etc"
I think that she is Jezza like, and will need to be prised from post.
The rebels will come from the right. They always do.
Happy to offer you £20 at evens that May is gone by the Party Conference of 2020
Which side of the bet?
I think that she will fight off unrest in the Brownite manner, thereby denuding her cabinet of talent but remaining in office.
Mail spinning it all very positively for May - main headline:
"You won't have to sell home to pay for your care"
And that Winter Fuel cut is to fund the above.
Other papers going with same narrative - it's as if May has written the headlines herself.
What should be interesting is that given Labour are promising a spending splurge, and the LDs a more modest splurge, the Tory manifesto will surely contain more obvious 'negative' promises of cuts and the like. People claim they want honesty, but I've always doubted that when it comes to promising a land of free bread and subsidised honey for all, and with the Tories likely to win anyway I wonder how bold May will be in being realistic and even harsh if needed.
On evidence to date, not very bold, except when parking tanks on opposing lawns, but we shall see.
Sounds like the Tory one is moving the money around. So net zero impact in terms of spending. Telegraph are reporting deficit elimination by middle of 2020s, which would mean we'd have been in deficit for 17 years. Really hope that is managing expectations.
LDs promising to eliminate deficit in 'day to day spending' by 2020, Labour by 2022.
I suspect the Tory one is actual deficit. I think we're already close to eliminating the structural deficit.
May is a (nanny) Statist Tory. She genuinely believes that the State is likely to be a part of the solution rather than a part of the problem. It's Tory Jim, but not as we know it.
The state is part of the solution because the only way you will break up the dominant market players is through Govt action.
A true market economy needs the state to deal with market abuse-Tories should be actively seeking the state to deal with these abuses.
SME's are the drivers of innovation job creation and growth-not big business.
No the state is the problem.
Let me tell you the golden rule, - The people with the gold make the rules!
All the rules and regulations that the government comes out with don't 'constringe business' they disproportionally hold back new and small businesses, leaving the market to a smaller number of established and often inefficient firms that drive up prises.
Yes in reality that is often what happens-but that doesn't mean the state NEVER gets it right.
But as i have repeatedly said -i expect to be underwhelmed.
A stopped clock is correct twice a day,
I expect to be horrified, this will be my first election in 20 years, where I cant bring myself to donate to the party.
Do people with Type 1 diabetes just crumble when they enter their 60s then?
No but my wife is a Diabetes specialist ( and i do occasionally listen to what she says ) and also based on what May herself says, working into her mid /late 60's would be especially difficult for her. And based on other conversations i have had i am reasonably confident of my prediction that by around 2019 she will be heading for the exit.
Mail spinning it all very positively for May - main headline:
"You won't have to sell home to pay for your care"
And that Winter Fuel cut is to fund the above.
Other papers going with same narrative - it's as if May has written the headlines herself.
Looking at the paper headlines seems the social care package is received quite well.
Speaking personally my wife and I do not need the winter fuel allowance and if it means we can retain £100,000 in our estate rather than £23,000 we consider it a fair deal.
Speaking to our Canadian family and friends here in Vancouver they had no idea EU citizens could just come into the UK at will, unlike Canada that has very strict immigration rules. Furthermore on refugees, they only accept families and absolutely no single men on their own. They are not happy with the illegal migration taking place across the US - Canada border at present either.
Indeed which Country anywhere, outside the EU, allows unrestricted movement into their Country.
Australians and New Zealanders have freedom to move to each others countries. Indeed there are now significant Maori groups in most Australian cities.
May is a (nanny) Statist Tory. She genuinely believes that the State is likely to be a part of the solution rather than a part of the problem. It's Tory Jim, but not as we know it.
The state is part of the solution because the only way you will break up the dominant market players is through Govt action.
A true market economy needs the state to deal with market abuse-Tories should be actively seeking the state to deal with these abuses.
SME's are the drivers of innovation job creation and growth-not big business.
There is a role for the State in setting the rules and the dimensions of the playing field. But she wants to go a lot further than that. I think she is suspicious of freedom and cautious about innovation. Things can always be worse.
May is a dullard, pure and simple. She wants a Britain cloyed by mediocrity, piousness and conformity. She is a curtain-twitching meddler with no time for creativity, metropolitan attitudes or unorthodox lives.
The interesting speculation is who will lead the first attempted defenestration, and on what issue.
She won't be defenestered whilst she's riding high in the polls, and sorting Brexit.
But, the Party will want her gone very soon after GE2022 if this is her philosophical approach.
Had a chat last night with someone who was utterly convinced she will quit well before that. Reckons she'll serve three years, tops, then resign.
Ok.
She won't.
Huh? But Bob's mate said she would.
I don't know what to believe anymore...
Alright! I was just making conversation, I didn't claim to agree with the contention or that the source was informed.
May has decided to well and truly test the support of the old: reports suggest that the pension Triple Lock is going
I think everyone saw this one coming - Labour and the LDs certainly did with their promises to retain it.
It sounds like a good idea, and if ever there was a time the political cost could be borne it is now. Let us see how the oldies respond - just a bit of a recovery for Labour and LDs could save many seats.
People will think losing Winter Fuel is peanuts if it enables a real material change to how much they have to fund social care.
Moving cap from £23k to £100k is very big difference - bound to be very popular.
Winter Fuel Payments and free TV licences for millionaires is daft.
I recall working on some DWP funded research back in 2014 and having reasonably well off old folk asking me why they were being given these things for nothing when the country was supposedly short of money.
Mail spinning it all very positively for May - main headline:
"You won't have to sell home to pay for your care"
And that Winter Fuel cut is to fund the above.
Other papers going with same narrative - it's as if May has written the headlines herself.
Looking at the paper headlines seems the social care package is received quite well.
Speaking personally my wife and I do not need the winter fuel allowance and if it means we can retain £100,000 in our estate rather than £23,000 we consider it a fair deal.
Speaking to our Canadian family and friends here in Vancouver they had no idea EU citizens could just come into the UK at will, unlike Canada that has very strict immigration rules. Furthermore on refugees, they only accept families and absolutely no single men on their own. They are not happy with the illegal migration taking place across the US - Canada border at present either.
Indeed which Country anywhere, outside the EU, allows unrestricted movement into their Country.
Australians and New Zealanders have freedom to move to each others countries. Indeed there are now significant Maori groups in most Australian cities.
Yes - agreed - my son who is a Kiwi now resident in Canada can move freely into Australia but that is two Commonwealth neighbours whereas the EU involves 27/28 very different Countries and cultures
So, sod off Aussies, Kiwis, Canadians with your shared language, norms, beliefs and values and your Commonwealth ties, meanwhile let's have another two years of unfettered, low-skilled immigration from Romania and beyond.
Pedantic point: where in the EU is beyond Romania? Don't let facts get in the way of an anti-European rant.
France (New Caledonia and French Polynesia)?
Nicosia 3223km, Bucharest 2093 km
Don't let facts get in the way of ignorance
The Canary Islands are even further away but that's not the point.
As I recall, the Canaries are Spanish but not in the EU.
Typical tory response to possible weakness in their campaigning today is on the bbc website "Tories pledge further immigration curbs". They obviously feel safer with Bluekip line of "blame it on "johnny foreignor" and keep them out! Appealing to the lowest common denominator perhaps? When are they going to be taken to task on education and the NHS?
First, while I don't care about immigration, most people clearly do. Maybe not to the extent the Tories as a whole generally care, but most people have concerns about the level. I don't support their policy on this, and given their past failures on it I don't know why this time they should be believed, but it will be more popular than it is disliked, no surprise there. Just as most of Labour's policies were popular. Though it is notable plenty of Tories will not be happy with even this policy.
Secondly, as for being taken to task on the NHS, no one ever shuts up about how the NHS is in crisis, I have heard it my entire adult life, and frankly, I am inured to any bad news coming out of it, because having been told its in crisis my whole adult life, I struggle to work up the will to care. Is the coming crisis worse than the last one? How would I know?
I don't know if my attitude on that is even remotely common among some people, but even if it is not the Tories are 'taken to task' on the NHS constantly - if they still get re-elected, either the public do not care, or they think the opposition would do no better, or they think the Tories are doing ok on it.
Because that's the stone cold truth about a lot of issues - one side may say the other misled, but that's just it, they said it, they were able to rebut it, and if people still vote the other way despite being told the 'truth'? Well, the problem is really the voters then, at least partly.
Kle4, great post, I agree with you, but I think you have put it much better than I could.
"So pleased to receive a letter from the Prime Minister today asking me to vote for her candidate, Stephen Crabb."
She is the Labour candidate standing against Crabb.
Its Phillipa Thompson. Not sure what you were thinking of when you said Pippa!
She used to go by Pippa Hadley.
Yes, you knew her a long time before me. I have only been acquainted with her since 2015 and have known her as Philippa. Thought you were confusing her with s more famous Pippa. Anyway, Philippa's working hard down here although clearly she has an uphill task against a weakened Tory.
May is a (nanny) Statist Tory. She genuinely believes that the State is likely to be a part of the solution rather than a part of the problem. It's Tory Jim, but not as we know it.
The state is part of the solution because the only way you will break up the dominant market players is through Govt action.
A true market economy needs the state to deal with market abuse-Tories should be actively seeking the state to deal with these abuses.
SME's are the drivers of innovation job creation and growth-not big business.
There is a role for the State in setting the rules and the dimensions of the playing field. But she wants to go a lot further than that. I think she is suspicious of freedom and cautious about innovation. Things can always be worse.
May is a dullard, pure and simple. She wants a Britain cloyed by mediocrity, piousness and conformity. She is a curtain-twitching meddler with no time for creativity, metropolitan attitudes or unorthodox lives.
The interesting speculation is who will lead the first attempted defenestration, and on what issue.
She won't be defenestered whilst she's riding high in the polls, and sorting Brexit.
But, the Party will want her gone very soon after GE2022 if this is her philosophical approach.
Had a chat last night with someone who was utterly convinced she will quit well before that. Reckons she'll serve three years, tops, then resign.
100% agreed and have had a similar conversation with local candidate.
She is 61 in October and her type 1 diabetes will catch up with her. 2019- walks after Brexit -"time for someone else to lead us to sunny uplands etc"
The charge is to go into a skills fund for Britons.
It seems that she thinks we should actually train our own to do some of these jobs. Novel, granted.
Illiberal and anti-business, granted.
Charging for visas is illiberal? Agree it is anti-business, but it isn't as if the UK is the only country charging. Getting a H1B in the US is more expensive for the employer.
People will think losing Winter Fuel is peanuts if it enables a real material change to how much they have to fund social care.
Moving cap from £23k to £100k is very big difference - bound to be very popular.
Winter Fuel Payments and free TV licences for millionaires is daft.
I recall working on some DWP funded research back in 2014 and having reasonably well off old folk asking me why they were being given these things for nothing when the country was supposedly short of money.
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I am not pleased if she is tacking hard to the Left on economics.
Edit: and I actually quite liked the 2015GE Tory manifesto, for the record.
Didn't agree with him but I've no doubt his intentions were good.
Sad day for his family. Condolences.
She won't.
I don't know what to believe anymore...
It is only a matter of time before the troops get mutinous.
https://twitter.com/BBCAllieHB/status/864962172685864962
It seems that she thinks we should actually train our own to do some of these jobs. Novel, granted.
"You won't have to sell home to pay for your care"
And that Winter Fuel cut is to fund the above.
Other papers going with same narrative - it's as if May has written the headlines herself.
"So pleased to receive a letter from the Prime Minister today asking me to vote for her candidate, Stephen Crabb."
She is the Labour candidate standing against Crabb.
She is 61 in October and her type 1 diabetes will catch up with her.
2019- walks after Brexit -"time for someone else to lead us to sunny uplands etc"
Nicosia 3223km, Bucharest 2093 km
Don't let facts get in the way of ignorance
The rebels will come from the right. They always do.
In 2016 Paul Ryan said to colleagues 'I think Russia pays Trump'
Full quote
“There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,”
https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/864963916119629825
Secondly, as for being taken to task on the NHS, no one ever shuts up about how the NHS is in crisis, I have heard it my entire adult life, and frankly, I am inured to any bad news coming out of it, because having been told its in crisis my whole adult life, I struggle to work up the will to care. Is the coming crisis worse than the last one? How would I know?
I don't know if my attitude on that is even remotely common among some people, but even if it is not the Tories are 'taken to task' on the NHS constantly - if they still get re-elected, either the public do not care, or they think the opposition would do no better, or they think the Tories are doing ok on it.
Because that's the stone cold truth about a lot of issues - one side may say the other misled, but that's just it, they said it, they were able to rebut it, and if people still vote the other way despite being told the 'truth'? Well, the problem is really the voters then, at least partly.
"She will reject a cap on overall care costs but say no family should see their assets depleted below £100,000, an increase on the current £23,250 figure."
Let me tell you the golden rule, - The people with the gold make the rules!
All the rules and regulations that the government comes out with don't 'constringe business' they disproportionally hold back new and small businesses, leaving the market to a smaller number of established and often inefficient firms that drive up prises.
Speaking personally my wife and I do not need the winter fuel allowance and if it means we can retain £100,000 in our estate rather than £23,000 we consider it a fair deal.
Speaking to our Canadian family and friends here in Vancouver they had no idea EU citizens could just come into the UK at will, unlike Canada that has very strict immigration rules. Furthermore on refugees, they only accept families and absolutely no single men on their own. They are not happy with the illegal migration taking place across the US - Canada border at present either.
Indeed which Country anywhere, outside the EU, allows unrestricted movement into their Country.
People will think losing Winter Fuel is peanuts if it enables a real material change to how much they have to fund social care.
Moving cap from £23k to £100k is very big difference - bound to be very popular.
On evidence to date, not very bold, except when parking tanks on opposing lawns, but we shall see.
But as i have repeatedly said -i expect to be underwhelmed.
I think that she will fight off unrest in the Brownite manner, thereby denuding her cabinet of talent but remaining in office.
This story doesn't do justice to what Ryan has acknowledged, and its known he acknowledged about Russian state links to Trump.
Whats worse, whats about to come forward could change the speed and depth of things by a multiplying factor.
This is seriously messed up stuff over there.
I expect to be horrified, this will be my first election in 20 years, where I cant bring myself to donate to the party.
And based on other conversations i have had i am reasonably confident of my prediction that by around 2019 she will be heading for the exit.
It sounds like a good idea, and if ever there was a time the political cost could be borne it is now. Let us see how the oldies respond - just a bit of a recovery for Labour and LDs could save many seats.
I recall working on some DWP funded research back in 2014 and having reasonably well off old folk asking me why they were being given these things for nothing when the country was supposedly short of money.
People who work in the diplomatic service are exempt.
I work with some Romanians. Lovely people btw.
Illiberal and anti-business, granted.
Anyway, Philippa's working hard down here although clearly she has an uphill task against a weakened Tory.