Judith Bunting @judithbuntingld@respublicae.eu

Truss and the Conservatives are worrying about the future of the party.

How about they try focussing on the future of the UK? 🙄 https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-the-papers-63189410

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‘The government is no longer committed to a deal on associate membership’ of Horizon Europe research deal

Do Tories have no idea how growth works?

How can Truss accept being shut out of a programme that nurtures collaborations & delivers a cash return?
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/oct/08/things-will-only-get-worse-fears-top-scientists-may-shun-uk-over-brexit

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RT @rorybremner: So, you sack a highly respected & experienced official, reject advice, dismiss warnings, refuse the OBR’s offer of help. Your cocksure ‘mini’ budget then causes a major crisis, placing the pensions industry in peril. Your actions add £hundreds more to people’s mortgages 1/2

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Libertarian lobby groups are bankrolling the heart of the UK government

Representatives from these groups appear on flagship current affairs programmes, blandly presented as an impartial experts

The cost, for all but the richest, could be incalculable https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/opinion/truss-kwarteng-uk.html

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RT @RichardJMurphy: I suggest Truss has made a mistake. Let me leave aside the fact that in July this year Keir Starmer chose an identical focus on “growth, growth, growth” as his campaigning slogan, which makes Truss’s position look like a straightforward case of plagiarism.

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RT @carolinevoaden: I’d like to see

Growth in renewable energy
Growth in reliable, affordable public transport
Growth in provision of social housing
Growth in woodlands
Growth in access to sports and leisure facilities for all children
Growth in the number of teachers, nurses & social workers

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Truss really doesn’t have a clue.
I hate what’s happening, but there are good answers to that question. This is deeply dismal.
RT @banie01: @OxfordDiplomat @BethRigby @trussliz The mortgage question.
@BethRigby delivers it perfectly. The whole interview has been a masterclass in allowing #Truss to build a position as a #defender of the #economy to pontificate...
Then Beth just pulls the rug from under her 👏
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RT @OxfordDiplomat: If you watch anything to today. Let it be this. The opening sequence of @BethRigby interview with Prime Minister Liz Truss. Beth demonstrating the courage we would all wish for, if ever faced with Truss. Nonetheless, truly one of the most cutting interview openings in years.

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Me too.
RT @NicholasTyrone: I have found myself agreeing with Nadine Dorries: if Liz Truss wants to take the country in a totally different direction to the one laid out in the 2019 Tory manifesto, then she needs to call a general election first.

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RT @NadineDorries: We have no mandate from the people to do this.

Conservative Gov elected on basis of a manifesto, it’s how democracy works.

People voted in ‘19 on the policy promises we made (and for Boris).

If we don’t want to deliver on the deal, the promises, we need a fresh mandate.

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Christine Jardine MP, said: “It is outrageous that as families cut back on food and heating, outgoing Conservative ministers are being awarded thousands of pounds [~£410k] many of them after just a few weeks in the job. https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/23015215.redundancy-payments-boris-johnson-rishi-sunak-revealed/

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RT @JulienHoez: Brexiteers seem to think that they need to insult me/the EU or make up facts and figures to defend the UK from this tweet.

Which is a terrible plan because neither the. EU, myself, nor reality, care.

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@RossMackinnonWB @KwasiKwarteng Fair enough. My bad terminology.

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RT @RichardFoordLD: Let’s be clear, the only reason Kwarteng has shelved plans to cut taxes for the wealthiest is because of the political backlash. He still thinks it is the right idea and went ahead with it despite the cost of living crisis. The Chancellor is woefully out of touch and must go.

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RT @SurreyHeathLDs: The @Conservatives are struggling to get their message out right now. So it’s only right that we lend them a hand.

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RT @EmmaKennedy: Kwarteng’s “mistake” cost us £65 billion. And he gets to keep his job? Now tell me another job where you can do that in your first week and your boss says “You crack on”?

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RT @MartinSLewis: This is nonsense. To make that stamp duty saving you'd need to be buying a £500,000+ property.

With 10% deposit, cheapest fix mortgage would cost £2,400/mth (£28,000/yr). How can someone on £30k afford that

I am asking treasury to remove.

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RT @sarahjolney1: The Conservatives have lost the confidence of the public and the markets - it will take more than a screeching u-turn to undo the damage for millions of homeowners.

The Conservatives should recall Parliament and sort out this mess for the good of the country.

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