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The next Tory leader?

She's been on a world tour causing inflation and interest rises wherever she goes. Very powerful and influential is our lettuce Liz.

Yep, right-oh. I look forward to the inevitable name calling and laughing emojis!

Wow. Just wow. Spectacularly missing the point of macro economics whilst spectacularly overestimating Lettuce Liz's ability to influence anything. Whilst Kwasi's budget was an unfunded fuck up that certainly startled the financial institutions, within a couple of weeks of them being ousted the markets calmed down to where they were. For some reason you acknowledge that interest rate rises are world events, but then completely ignore : Russia's special military operation - causing oil prices to rise, gas shortages across Europe as the Russian market is cut off, massive price rises for energy across Europe for businesses and customers. Fuel price increases - causing the price at the pumps to rise and the cost of transporting goods to increase, whilst also having the added benefit of increasing the cost to make food and packaging raising the prices of literally everything in the shops. The BoE has a job to cut inflation - caused by fuel and energy cost increases - the only way to do that is take money out of the economy by raising interest rates. Liz Truss was, and still is, a complete blithering idiot, but she didn't cause a global recession and interest rates to rise - they had already been increasing steadily for a year before she became PM.

And yet you chose this as the primary reason

Indeed. But the current generation will (eventually) inherit our properties and the massive equity that has been built up over the years. Although I imagine the same people that currently can't afford their mortgages will be the same ones opting for the equity release schemes once the mortgage is paid and will doubtless be wondering where all the money went!

That's a whole different argument and relies on the lenders carrying out appropriate stress tests, being truthful and ultimately making sure their clients understand the implications. That's not the fault of the Government that stupid people can't plan for the future.

Not really. If what you say is true, then the opposite is also true and that Boris won a stonking majority in the last election because the interest rates were so low. I doubt there was one single person who had their mortgage in mind when they voted in the last election. You've invented a straw man argument to fit around the current global issues with interest rates. Bless you for thinking that Theresa May was actually powerful enough to cause a global phenomenon. So many hundreds of sticks you could beat the Tory's with and you've chosen this. Probably safer to stick to schools, hospitals, shit roads, shit public transport, shit doctors, shit local services etc etc as the reason why they don't have a hope in hell, not because some dullard didn't believe that their mortgage would go up.

Enlighten us. It's not often aintclever has a point - at least not an original one.

I look forward to my mortgage payments reducing within months of Labour winning the election. This time next year we'll be down to 0.5% again no doubt. Although I don't remember you praising the Tory's for about 8 years of interest rates below 1%....

There's been a decade of that. Another couple of months will make no difference at all.

Apparently, Vlad is a shoe in to win this weekend's election in Russia.

46 times Diane stood up to catch the Speaker's attention but in the end they simply ran out of time. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-68558133 I guess they felt the debate about racist comments didn't really need her racist comments to be added to it!

BeCAusE SoMEthInG sOmeTHiNg aNd iT'S uNFaIr.

No. According to some, he's the greatest wind up on the internet.

I know it's a typo, but it did cause a double take 😲

Yes, we all know it's possible. Fucking weird though! Oh, I want to ignore your posts, until you post something, then I want to read them. Weirdo.

The fucking Islamist 🤦🏻

Not sure this post is the gotcha you believe it to be. The only reason that the terrorist organisation Hamas isn't killing more innocent Israeli citizens (or pesky Jews as I know you like to think of them), is because they are currently being chased around Gaza by the Israeli troops! I have no doubt that if they had the opportunity they would definitely be killing more innocent people, that's kind of what terrorist organisations do! As you point out, the Israeli actions are therefore very effective right now with regards to protecting their innocent citizens.

And some people think a good tactic would be to not bother trying to block any shots from the opposition!

Or... Seems pretty much spot on seeing as we are 6 points behind with only one game in hand and we still have to play all of the current top three sides, all away from home.

Not sure that's a tactic that works if your keeper can't do the shot stopping thing like ours.

Toker

Could have been taken using "best shot" - not sure how that works as I've only seen the ads - which could have caused it. Either that or Kate is shit at Photoshop as mentioned.