• The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    The Tories’ best chance of making a comeback was always to obstruct or lessen any future Labour wins. If their goal was to leave a mess and then force someone else to clean it up, it’s hard to see what they would have done differently.

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.uk
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      3 months ago

      The IFS have just said that the black hole in the budget is the same size as the changes in the last budget by Jeremy Hunt. It looks like they knew they were done and decided to leave some landmines around to mess Labour up.

      Kicking projects like the Stonehenge tunnel into the long grass seems the sensible temporary response.

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        3 months ago

        It’s ridiculous, we are all one people. Using the right hand to stab the left hand to encourage ourselves to be right handed…

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          Because they don’t see it that way. The world is divided into two groups, them, and everyone else, and they don’t care about the everyone else group.

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        3 months ago

        The Stonehenge tunnel is a boondoggle that should never have been funded in the first place.

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      3 months ago

      They handed £20bn out and ran up the card so Labour would be on the hook to pay for it. And now Hunt’s bleating like he’s an honest man wrongly accused. How like the Tories to do something ugentlemanly, then complain that they’re not being treated like gentlement. Cry-bullies.

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        3 months ago

        The electorate has been far too tolerant of this behaviour. I don’t get why it’s been allowed to go on like this, other than the poor state of journalism these days.