Monthly Archives: September 2022

Young Iranians are protesting against the regime that murders women ‘for their own good’

Murdered: Mahsa Amini.

Brace yourself, because this won’t be easy to watch or read.

Last night (September 29), on Late Night Mash, comedian Shaparak (Shappi) Khorsandi delivered an impassioned attack on the so-called morality police in her homeland of Iran.

These are people who murder women for failing to cover their hair completely. Watch:

For more context on this, here’s another comedian from Iran, Omid Djalili:

Bear in mind that he said 41 people had died four days ago. By yesterday that death toll had more than doubled:

Thousands of Iranians are protesting – and risking their lives to do so – but people across the world are taking action as well.

Here in the UK, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was imprisoned in Iran for six years, cut her hair in a gesture of solidarity with women in and from Iran who have thrown away their hijabs to do the same:

This should provide some context for her act:

Other people have done other things:

If people in Iran are risking their lives to make a stand against this, then people elsewhere can certainly do something in solidarity.

Will you? Or do you think it’s all right because it isn’t happening to you?

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Truss and Kwarteng LIED about independent report on their mini-budget. Should they resign?

It turns out the Office for Budget Responsibility provided Kwasi Kwarteng with a report on his mini-budget plans on September 6, the day he took office as Chancellor.

The OBR offered to update it with any extra information before Kwarteng’s ‘fiscal event’ on September 23 – and would have been able to provide this – but was not asked to do so.

Instead, Kwarteng refused to issue any OBR report on that day – claiming there was not enough time. This appears to have been a lie:

Truss is still refusing to publish the OBR’s assessment of her plans until November 23 – nearly three months after it was written.

So Kwarteng has lied to the nation and Truss has compounded that lie by refusing to rectify it.

And the reason?

The OBR’s report would have damned the plans in the “fiscal event” as economic suicide. Truss and Kwarteng were told what their plans would do, and they produced them anyway. Shouldn’t they resign for deceiving us like this?

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Tory mini-budget lies debunked: don’t let them fool you

Gaslighting: Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng (and the rest of their government) are trying to feed you a lot of misleading lines about their policies. Don’t let them.

After crashing the UK economy with their ‘dumb and dumber’ mini-budget/’fiscal event’, Liz Truss, Kwasi Kwarteng and their Conservative government chums are trying to gaslight you into thinking the consequences are not their fault.

Don’t believe a word of it.

Let’s have a look at some of their claims:

First among them must be this nonsense that the mini-budget was economically sound. Here’s one very obvious indicator that it wasn’t:

On her round of radio interviews yesterday (September 29), Liz Truss tried to tell us all that she has capped energy bills at £2,500 per year – indicating that she doesn’t understand her own policy:

The Treasury is trying to tell us changes to stamp duty mean a saving of £11,250 for first-time buyers – but the mortgage would cost people who earn £30,000 a total of £38,000 per year:

How about the claim that cutting taxes is fair because it helps everybody?

And what is the government’s response to complaints? Here’s Ernst Stavro Blofeld- er, Andrew Griffith, and Peter Stefanovic’s response to him:

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Labour has almost the largest poll lead over the Tories in British political history

What a shame this could not have happened when Jeremy Corbyn was leader of the Labour Party. We might have ended up with a nation worth living in.

Here’s the gist:

So there you have it. Starmer’s Labour has a 33-point lead over Liz Truss and her hollowed-out Conservatives.

According to the poll, if there was a general election now, Labour would have 565 MPs and the Conservatives would have just three.

Evolve Politics has slightly different figures but they’re still horrifying for the Tories:

Liz Truss is already being touted as the person who could wipe out the Conservatives:

Of course she didn’t do it alone. I mention this merely to get a bit of mockery into the article – and this is too good not to keep for posterity:

But a Labour landslide would not be a necessarily good thing – especially under Keir Starmer’s leadership.

Economist Richard Murphy sets out the case for proportional representation here:

Remember this fact, also:

Still, there’s a groundswell of support for an immediate general election:

What do you think? Would you like an election?

Oh, and the Tories really have cancelled live band karaoke at their conference:

How will Therese Coffey get her kicks now?

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Who will replace Liz Truss if her time is already up?

The argument is very clear: Liz Truss’s government reckons none of the disasters that have befallen the UK since Kwasi Kwarteng’s ‘fiscal event’ last Friday have had anything to do with what he said and, faced with that ignorance, her own party should ditch her.

Sure, she’s got another 49 weeks to go (technically) before she can be challenged according to the rules – but the rules can be changed.

The problem is: who can replace her?

Boris Johnson put himself in a position where the Tories thought anybody would be better – and have now been proved wrong.

But after Truss, anybody really would be better. And who’s the favourite to replace her?

Boris Johnson.

Here’s a more in-depth analysis:

Only one thing is sure in this situation.

The UK is teetering on the brink of a political apocalypse – and our future is in the hands of a gang of imbeciles.

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Radio ga-ga: Thick Lizzy tries to get busy but ends up going dizzy

Backwards: Liz Truss did a series of phone interviews – and from her answers it seems likely she didn’t even know how to hold the telephone properly.

Liz Truss has finally come out of hiding to do a series of radio interviews, in a bid to justify her decision to crash the UK economy last Friday.

It hasn’t gone well for her.

But it is comedy gold.

And the commentators have been having a lot of fun (which is great for places like This Site, because I can just point you to them, and the clips of Truss’s plane-crash level interview ineptitude that they have preserved for posterity.

Let’s ease you in gently:

Now let’s have the hard stuff:

Don’t you love how she refers to “a global phenomenelom”?

Particular credit should go to the BBC Radio Bristol presenter for cutting to shreds the words of a prime minister who didn’t understand any of what she was talking about.

Her time is up already.

Can some responsible Conservative MPs (if there are any) please set in motion the process to get rid of her?

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Liz’s legacy: crashing pound and pensions, housing crisis, inflation, unemployment. What’s to be done?

Liz Truss: “Duh… what did I do?”

Economist Richard Murphy has given his verdict on the result of Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s new economic direction for the UK – and it is damning.

But he has also done something far more important; he has suggested ways forward for the UK. Principal among those is making sure the Conservative Party is never allowed into power on its own again, so it can never again ruin the finances of millions of people for the benefit of a few spoilt rich kids.

It’s the first positive series of suggestions This Writer has seen.

See what you think – and be sure to send those thoughts in via the comments section:

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Separated at birth: financial secretary Andrew Griffith and Ernst Stavro Blofeld?

Wow. When Queasie Kwarteng wouldn’t come out of his pit to answer questions about the ideologically-driven economic train crash he has caused, the Tory government had to find another spokesperson.

And who did they wheel out?

Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

Oh no, wait a moment. My notes are telling me he’s actually called Andrew Griffith and he’s the financial secretary to the Treasury.

But if he had been Blofeld, his words would probably have made more sense. Watch:

A bit of honest extortion from the head of SPECTRE would have made more sense than Griffith’s twaddle.

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Another documentary slams Starmer’s Labour. Watch Labour: The Big Lie

Labour: what will the latest documentary reveal?

As the Labour Party Conference closes, here’s yet another documentary that Keir Starmer will be hoping won’t attract any media attention – so please tell everybody about it.

The world premiere of Labour: The Big Lie is currently taking place online. Visit this site to see it – but be quick because it’s only on until midnight on Thursday, September 29.

The premise is very simple: Jeremy Corbyn led a movement that caused shock waves in the global establishment. Who brought it down?

Narrated by Alexei Sayle, this 75 minute long documentary feature from Platform Films reveals an extraordinary story of intrigue and conspiracy that the mainstream media has systematically ignored.

There will a screening in a London cinema in the last week of October at a venue to be advised. It will be advertised on the Platform Films website at www.platformfilms.co.uk

This Writer has not seen it yet, so I can’t say how good or bad it is – although Alexei Sayle’s participation is encouraging.

So if you pop over and watch the film, be sure to come back and tell us all what you think of it.

Economists are losing their minds over Truss and Kwarteng – and look who’s advising them!

Proved correct: this was an accurate prediction, as we can see from the revelation about who is advising Liz Truss – and the reactions of economists to what they have done together.

The Tory government led by Liz Truss is being advised by shady right-wing think tanks like the Institute for Economic Affairs, which seems to exist purely to eliminate so-called ‘big’ government and remove restrictions on business like workers’ rights and environmental protections.

Nobody knows everything about who funds the IEA. But one of its lunatics – I mean representatives – appeared on ITV’s Good Morning Britain to show us all how crazy his organisation is. Take a look:

Meanwhile, professional economists are going absolutely crazy about the disaster that Kwasi Kwarteng has triggered, on the advice of these far-right think tanks (apparently).

Have a listen to what they have to say:

There is a lesson to learn from this:

The Conservatives are NOT the party to trust with the UK economy.

Not now, and never again.

It’s no wonder that Truss and Kwarteng seem to have given up on trying to run the country and are instead abusing their position to funnel money to their richest friends – presumably in the hope that this will give them an escape route when the whole house of cards collapses.

Let’s hope some more Tory MPs grow a backbone and eject them before the damage becomes irreversible.

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