General British politics discussion thread

Certainly weird that a 'mini-budget' can make the biggest tax cuts in decades and signal a significant change in fiscal policy.

I'd say those who voted Truss over Sunak feel silly now - under her watch the UK economy will be destroyed. The whole point of rate rises is to combat inflation even if it brings about a recession - they have just done a 180 with this budget and are now actively trying to give more money to people which will cause more inflation.

If they stick this course, the UK could well enter an inflation crisis

I think for those who voted for her this is exactly what was written on the tin...

George Monbiot, as he often does, sums it up perfectly. These are the thinktanks that get the seat at the table on virtually every BBC politics discussion programme. It's a rigged system.

Yes. The Asian population.

I'm a Fine Gael supporter and voter, I'm what I think of as a rabid centrist; pro-enterprise and innovation economy, investment in life long education and training, but with a good safety net and quality public services.

Thats probably enough for me to be called an ultra-right fascist by many in this Country, leaving aside Gemmabots, but really I look across the water at these one-time One Nation Conservatives and my jaw hits the floor.

The trickle down can't work if the bonanza created at Level 1 is all taken out of the economy at Level 2. Its absolutely insane and I'd now be very worried about the civil and societal fabric of large parts of Britain. It could be a winter of discontent to make 1979 look like Glastonbury.

That sounds fine at this point. They needed the pain. The Tory boil needs to be lanced.

I lived and worked in a regional town, for a 6 month period, back in 2010. It was a bleak place that voted heavily for Brexit 6 years later. I was genuinely shocked at the poverty levels in some of the areas of that town. Real "Benefits Street" stuff.

I cannot even begin to imagine what those areas are like now, after 12 years of the Tories making inequality even worse.

I recall it had a lot of bookies, pubs and pharmacies and a really large Iceland store that sold frozen meals for £1. It also had a British Army recruitment office. The local job agency advertised had job vacancies in their window. I recall them advertising cleaning jobs that payed £6 per hour.

I suspect a lot of Brexit Britain was like that.

Even the term "trickle down" is disgusting.

Got a very live off the scraps and left overs vibe.

GHW Bush nailed it when Reagan first spouted off about it in his 1980 campaign: "Voodoo economics."

Didn't Liz Truss use that phrase? Because the old GOP called it 'supply side' economics, whatever that meant. "Trickle Down" from a party whose previous PM occasionally said things about spaffing up the wall is an image, well, I've ruined my own evening now.