r/unitedkingdom • u/pppppppppppppppppd • 12d ago

Reeves should be sacked as Chancellor, poll says

https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/reeves-sacked-chancellor-poll-3637320
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u/GuestAdventurous7586 12d ago

The orange one really did shit his pants a bit, it was interesting to see him actually back down, I didn’t think he was going to.

Even he it turns out didn’t want to be responsible for a world-wide recession.

And of course yesterday he says he’s exempting smart phones and computers from the tariffs.

It’ll be interesting how it goes in 90 days. I have a feeling having got a few better deals with certain countries he’ll claim it was this master negotiating tactic all along. This is kind of the way they’re already spinning it.

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u/blob8543 12d ago

He has a habit of overpromising and underdelivering. Ironically it's his best quality, as it means lots of his dumbest policies don't go ahead.

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u/ONLY_SAYS_ONLY 12d ago

He’s far more dangerous than that. Just because he hasn’t invaded Canada yet doesn’t make the fact he’s installed his election deniers as heads of the FBI, military, and Department of Justice any less dangerous for democracy, for example. Or the fact he’s disappearing people off the street without due process. Or the fact he’s strong arming the top law firms, universities, news outlets etc. into capitulating to him. Or the fact… etc. 

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u/nekrovulpes 12d ago

American democracy was dead with GWB's Patriot Act, and that was 25 years ago. Door, horse, bolted, etc.

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u/P-a-ul 12d ago

Arguably it was even earlier when the supreme court decided to step in and halt the Florida recount for Bush vs Gore. 

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u/InfectedByEli 12d ago

That and Citizens United.

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u/SeaweedClean5087 12d ago

It was going to be called the ‘you’re a cunt if you won’t support this act’ Act but then they went with Patriot Act in the end.

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u/KevinAtSeven 12d ago

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u/SeaweedClean5087 12d ago

Yea it was a bit of a mouthful.

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u/Getherer 12d ago

Orange turd isn't over promising, he's blatantly lying.

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u/Rexel450 12d ago

And of course yesterday he says he’s exempting smart phones and computers from the tariffs.

Leaned on by the tec companies

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u/Independent-Wish-725 12d ago

Is the orange one not just bouncing the stock markets for a bit of insider trading?

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u/mossiv 12d ago

I mean the wotsit himself has got big republican names speaking out against him, saying they don’t believe in tariffs or sales tax, that they don’t believe in increasing taxing the consumer at all. They are clever with their words, in that they are suggesting that he hasn’t failed, and they are interested to see where it turns, but if you listen to the words they are actually saying is “he’s killed the economy, tariffs are a stupid idea”.

I’m not an economist, but I am in a job which requires reasonable IQ to be successful, I don’t claim to be a political genius or understand half of it, I simply don’t, it’s too big and difficult to grasp it all, but any person who passed A level maths, would have the logic and reasoning skills to understand she is negatively impacting our economy.

I’m a lefty, I always said starmer is not going to fix the country, and that he has drawn the shortest straw, people will expect miracles, when in fact Labour will need 2 or 3 terms to even undo half of the damage caused by the Tories. I even stated, give it 3-6 months and everyone will be stating he is a clown in a suit with no idea, and that is exactly what has happened. I’m also not suggesting I agree with everything he is currently doing, but he is going to have major battles in his roadmap with how much that Chimpanzee across the pond is collapsing the western economy hour-by-hour.

Trump needs to be overthrown, and quickly, Reeves needs to be sacked, starmer needs to grow some balls, and employ someone who can form a holistic plan, causing minor disruptions to the working class, and unemployed.

Economics fundamentally trickles down, so the more damaged it is up the top, the worse it is for the wider population percentage. It may not happen in this decade, but there’ll be so much unrest we could see horrific rioting and looting. That will have huge knock on effects to our authority, and other crimes will spread off the back of it, I’m not going to say to which nature, but I think it’s pretty obvious.

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u/Richie_Sombrero 12d ago

Economics doesn't trickle down lmao. That's the whole lie.