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Title: Hello Hunt - Farewell Triple Lock?
Post by: Cassandra on October 14, 2022, 03:13:52 PM
The most negative of men, truly in every way a lib-dem, (like at last half of the present crop of Tory MP's).

Championed Chinese style lock down.

Known to be very anti-pensioner, we have way too much he reckons.

A dedicated remainer, like PM Truss of course.

What a complete mess, Tories are now trashed after the entrails of this parliament are torn open, to be consumed by the vultures, some coloured Red the majority Blue.

Goodbye Tories after 2024 perhaps forever, as our deceived generations die and the new wave socialist raised generations either abstain, or support Rayner & co?

Title: Re: Hello Hunt - Farewell Triple Lock?
Post by: GrannyMac on October 14, 2022, 04:48:00 PM
You're absolutely right, it is a complete mess. I have no idea where politics is going in the UK, and I wonder what my teenage grandchildren will do when they grow up?  Possibly what my older cousins did in the early 60s, and emigrate!
Title: Re: Hello Hunt - Farewell Triple Lock?
Post by: Alex on October 14, 2022, 07:20:37 PM
Talk about scraping the barrel !   :yell:
Title: Re: Hello Hunt - Farewell Triple Lock?
Post by: Jacqueline on October 14, 2022, 07:22:19 PM
Desperate might explain it.
Title: Re: Hello Hunt - Farewell Triple Lock?
Post by: klondike on October 14, 2022, 07:23:42 PM
His only claim to fame is that somebody on the BBC got his name right and had to be apologise.
Title: Re: Hello Hunt - Farewell Triple Lock?
Post by: Diasi on October 14, 2022, 07:33:13 PM
The current political arena was established on the 24th June 2016.

That was the day that MPs decided to ignore the majority result of a democtatic referendum & proceeded with three & a half years of concerted effort & subterfurge to get it overturned.

Prior to that date our political arena worked on the basis of the majority result in any vote was the one that was carried forward.

Fast forward to six years to 2022 & our political arena now operates on the basis of "if a majority vote doesn't return the required result then try to get it overturned by whatever means are available".

The future will be one of establishment inspired anarchy.

October 14, 2022, 07:35:52 PM
Quote from: klondike on October 14, 2022, 07:23:42 PMHis only claim to fame is that somebody on the BBC got his name right and had to be apologise.
Pity is name isn't Michael.

Imagine his sectretary having to ask "have you seen Mike Hunt?".
Title: Re: Hello Hunt - Farewell Triple Lock?
Post by: Alex on October 14, 2022, 07:39:36 PM
Meanwhile.......in the wings

(https://i.postimg.cc/76t8CzT1/boris.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
Title: Re: Hello Hunt - Farewell Triple Lock?
Post by: Raven on October 14, 2022, 09:02:33 PM
Surely it would have been better to have kept people in their jobs and not sacked them, then giving said jobs to her pals. What a disaster she is.  :boo:
Title: Re: Hello Hunt - Farewell Triple Lock?
Post by: Michael Rolls on October 14, 2022, 09:13:43 PM
sadly, the MPs only have themselves to blame. They agreed to a system to elect a leader which left the final decision to party members - and then, when the party members voted in a candidate who lacked the support of most Tory MPs, set about messing her about. Now we have a government in disarray, a new Chancellor with an outstanding record of incompetence - what next?
Mike
Title: Re: Hello Hunt - Farewell Triple Lock?
Post by: Raven on October 14, 2022, 09:15:46 PM
It could end up with a general election, the people have had enough.  :waiting:
Title: Re: Hello Hunt - Farewell Triple Lock?
Post by: Ashy on October 14, 2022, 09:19:12 PM
Are they really so incompetent and stupid?
Title: Re: Hello Hunt - Farewell Triple Lock?
Post by: klondike on October 14, 2022, 09:20:39 PM
Quote from: Raven on October 14, 2022, 09:15:46 PMIt could end up with a general election, the people have had enough.  :waiting:
Either Truss has to call one or there has to be a failed confidence motion.
There is still a sizeable Tory majority in parliament.
Turkeys are not best known as ardent voters for Christmas.
The current government certainly look like turkeys.

Title: Re: Hello Hunt - Farewell Triple Lock?
Post by: Michael Rolls on October 14, 2022, 09:21:49 PM
well, they certainly gobble enough
Title: Re: Hello Hunt - Farewell Triple Lock?
Post by: Cassandra on October 15, 2022, 12:20:21 AM
Quote from: Alex on October 14, 2022, 07:39:36 PMMeanwhile.......in the wings

(https://i.postimg.cc/76t8CzT1/boris.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)

And dressed in the right colour too!
Title: Re: Hello Hunt - Farewell Triple Lock?
Post by: Michael Rolls on October 15, 2022, 04:49:19 AM
looks like he is auditioning for Top Gun!
Title: Re: Hello Hunt - Farewell Triple Lock?
Post by: Diasi on October 15, 2022, 08:00:28 AM
While I agree that the current situation appears to be a disaster, never forget that the real disaster is the disaster-in-waiting on the opposition benches.

Also, never forget that Labour was opposed to the Tory's triple lock for the State Pension & voted against it.
Title: Re: Hello Hunt - Farewell Triple Lock?
Post by: Michael Rolls on October 15, 2022, 11:01:25 AM
despite everything, I am still sure that a Labour government would be even worse
Title: Re: Hello Hunt - Farewell Triple Lock?
Post by: Cassandra on October 15, 2022, 03:39:16 PM
Gentlemen, unfortunately the 'Sheeple', who are majoratively economically illiterate, will judge the idiot Labour party as marksmen, compared to the Tories! These are currently pre-occupied missing everything on the range, except each other.

Five chancellors, since the idiot Johnson got his 80 seat majority in 2019. Farcical, worse than any Premiership football club Manager replacement ratio! Nothing but ribald entertainment for the rest of the world to laugh at! This lot are mad and out of control. They careen us towards a Starmer 'pop up' government.
Utilising those awful women, Sturgeon and Lucas, with the old Welsh Windbag 2.0, Drakeford, they'd deliver us up to the EU and inevitably the Globalist elites as a tasty 'Hors d'oeuvre'!

What a total and utter mess, a ragbag of self possessed ego's with assassins like Gove, Schapps etc plotting off piste with their old cronies, Hammond, Grieve, Soubry Gauke etc. Ugly vindictive and machiavellian, every last one of them! Just imagine what contempt they must hold the electorate in to believe they can continue to get away with it!

I would no longer feel represented politically, were I in England now. The question is who else is there to turn too. Presently, a vacuum, it seems to me?

The worst Conservative administration in my lifetime, by a long, long way.
Title: Re: Hello Hunt - Farewell Triple Lock?
Post by: Raven on October 15, 2022, 04:07:49 PM
Yet still they get voted in, time after time.  :yell: You get what you vote for. Except in Scotland who don't vote Tory, yet we still have to put up with the Scunners.  :yell:
Title: Re: Hello Hunt - Farewell Triple Lock?
Post by: klondike on October 17, 2022, 03:13:39 PM
(https://i.postimg.cc/BvvzzT84/triple-lock.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)

https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1683905/State-Pension-triple-lock-Chancellor-Jeremy-Hunt-u-turn-pensioners-emergency

State Pension triple lock at risk in next Hunt u-turn 'Anxious wait' with decision in days
Pensioners incomes face a new threat as Chancellor Jeremy Hunt warns the Government is going to slash government spending further.
Title: Re: Hello Hunt - Farewell Triple Lock?
Post by: Diasi on October 17, 2022, 06:04:55 PM
Personally I can withstand another small percentage State Pension rise & part of me would like to see a 2% increase so that I sit back & enjoy watching all the rage it will cause.

The Labour morons were against the mini-budget, which would have seen us get 10%, so they'll have a hard job shouting about it if it's dropped.
Title: Re: Hello Hunt - Farewell Triple Lock?
Post by: klondike on October 17, 2022, 06:36:04 PM
Any percent of very little amounts to very little anyway. It's the principal that counts. It was in the manifesto. They reneged on the last one saying that inflation would not be 8% so we only got 3%. They were right it is 10%.
Title: Re: Hello Hunt - Farewell Triple Lock?
Post by: Jacqueline on October 17, 2022, 06:46:55 PM
One thing for sure we are stuffed,  come April when the energy price cap goes through the roof even a 10% rise won't help us.
Title: Re: Hello Hunt - Farewell Triple Lock?
Post by: GrannyMac on October 17, 2022, 07:21:59 PM
By April, we'll be used to economising, and the weather will be warming up. OH, who was always switching up the heating got an 'oodie' for his birthday. Warm as toast now!

I heard the energy support and price caps will be reviewed, but I won't hold my breath.
Title: Re: Hello Hunt - Farewell Triple Lock?
Post by: Raven on October 17, 2022, 07:23:53 PM
Up to Tony Blair I was always a Labour voter, but they changed so much since TB, and I can't help wondering what they would do to get things sorted.
Would they remain Tory Lite? Or would they return to being Labour and sort things out differently.
Title: Re: Hello Hunt - Farewell Triple Lock?
Post by: Diasi on October 17, 2022, 08:00:05 PM
Quote from: GrannyMac on October 17, 2022, 07:21:59 PMBy April, we'll be used to economising, and the weather will be warming up. OH, who was always switching up the heating got an 'oodie' for his birthday. Warm as toast now!

I heard the energy support and price caps will be reviewed, but I won't hold my breath.

The only downside is when the fabric of our homes gets riddled with damp etc due to low / no heating.