It is, once again, *not austerity* to tax and spend. It is prudent management of a country that has a chronic public sector underinvestment problem in urgent need to correction.

Plus one x

Cromwellian woke anti-Christmas fascists v the lefty traitors of...Reform, love it 😁

If FKA Twigs or PinkPantheress are running as VP it might almost be worth the purgatory of the next 21 years

I imagine most serious political analysts would resist my prognostication that the UK is going to be a republic and have an Anglo-Albanian dance music icon as head of state by then too, but one can but hope 😁😁

Dua Lipa running on a republican Anglo-Albanian Tolkien disco ticket

And you just know that it ends with Dua Lipa as the UK's first elected president taking us into the EU, Euro and Schengen on 23rd June 2046, thirty years after the original referendum

Nobody who should fuck off actually fucks off anymore. We're stuck with all these fucking people.

Same-ish dilemma here in Wigan x

This is it - instead it's like the Krays asking for protection money and saying 'don't ask questions or you'll be sorry' in the process

It's basically the Krays asking for protection money

Well said x

Yes, the anxiety is the key part here. The stressy shouty defensiveness about the whole operation