RT @PippaCrerar: Wow. Kwasi Kwarteng attended private champagne reception *hours* after delivering mini-budget where hedge fund managers (who would gain from crash in pound) urged him to double down - scoop from @ShippersUnbound & @Gabriel_Pogrund https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/kwasi-kwartengs-budget-day-cocktail-party-with-financiers-who-may-have-profited-from-crash-kwdbs72g0
RT @AnnClwyd: @Number10cat Feel free Larry!
@Number10cat Feel free Larry!
RT @Number10cat: Liz Truss is in Birmingham for the Conservative Party Conference. I think it’s probably for the best if I change the locks.
RT @AndrewMorganRCT: More austerity will kill public services, there is nothing left to cut, 12 years of the Torys has put most services on the brink
RT @AlfredoDamtram: @TheEconomist sorry luv, the paddle's off... but there may be something left over in the fridge.
RT @AnnClwyd: @AndrewMorganRCT I am shocked at the Tories thick skins. Do they not hear the cries of pain all around?Child poverty,fuel poverty etc etc…
@AndrewMorganRCT I am shocked at the Tories thick skins. Do they not hear the cries of pain all around?Child poverty,fuel poverty etc etc…
So where are they?
I mean Liz Truss & Kwazi Kwarteng?
They should be hiding their heads in shame….
RT @AnnClwyd: @PippaCrerar ‘Uncosted ‘’unfunded ‘say the experts about Truss & Kwarteng’s nightmare mini- budget!
@PippaCrerar ‘Uncosted ‘’unfunded ‘say the experts about Truss & Kwarteng’s nightmare mini- budget!
@AndrewMorganRCT Responsible.
@lewis_goodall That is the only responsible action in the circumstances.!
RT @Peston: The sacking of the permanent secretary at the Treasury Tom Scholar by @KwasiKwarteng as his first act as chancellor is now a very real problem for the Chancellor, after the Bank of England has been forced to initiate an emergency markets operation to prevent the soaring...
RT @AndrewMorganRCT: Local authority finances are being hammered by the higher inflation, pay pressures, increased demand and utility costs. The actions of the government last week in the mini budget are close to criminal as their actions will harm public services along with households
RT @SamCoatesSky: I'm told by a city source it's hard to overstate how serious the situation is today. There is concern over the health of pension funds and this is why the Bank of England has acted
RT @BBCPolitics: “On Friday the chancellor stood up and comprehensively torched the economic record of his own government”
Labour’s shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, Pat McFadden, reacts to the mini budget
#BBCSundayShow https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001cn62/the-sunday-show-series-3-25092022
@IanMurrayMP Well spoken Ian on Newsnight X
@Number10cat @jaketapper Its all a bad dream Larry!Better to sleep thru it!
Fantastic football - Wales v Poland in Cardiff tonight! Nailbiting !Poland leads by 1-0 . 20 mins to go!
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