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jimbob said:
True, however this might actually be sufficiently stupid and bad taste for even Tory MPs, even those supporting Truss to get annoyed with her.
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Tory MPs didn't think Johnson having parties when people couldn't attend the death of their relatives was bad taste - I don't think there is a cat-in-hell's chance that this will be too far for them.
 
Darat said:
Tory MPs didn't think Johnson having parties when people couldn't attend the death of their relatives was bad taste - I don't think there is a cat-in-hell's chance that this will be too far for them.
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The thing is that it could be thought of as inciting people to attack, or at least harass those who resigned from Johnson's government, which were all Tory MPs.
 
Some Tory MPs distance themselves from MadNads "knife" tweet
The business minister Greg Hands said the picture was inappropriate, especially given the killing of the Southend West Tory MP Sir David Amess at a constituency surgery in Essex last October.

“I’m sure Liz Truss would disown this kind of behaviour. I think this is appalling,” Hands told Sky News. “Look, it’s not even a year since the stabbing of Sir David Amess at his Southend constituency surgery, so I think this is very, very bad taste, dangerous even … I do find it distasteful.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/politic...g-tweets-on-rishi-sunak-condemned-by-tory-mps
 
P.J. Denyer said:
Combining The Ides of March with January 6th...
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I think it was a Twitter conversation (but it might even be here) where someone said that you get Dorries if you order Marjorie Taylor Greene from Wish.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Truss says students who get top grades should automatically be invited to apply to Oxford or Cambridge.

She also wants to expand existing academy schools that are high performing, and replace 'failing' establishments with 'free schools'. She also says she would end a ban on new grammar schools.
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How will that work when Oxbridge is already massively over-subscribed? So it is back to 'talent-spotting' where pushy parents again push their darling Tristram and Cressida to the forefront of the headmaster's attention.

As for 'free schools' - been there done that. These are schools that have their own selection criteria. For example, anyone could get into the Jewish Free School but the catch was, you had to show basic proficiency in Hebrew to get in.
 
Lothian said:
Is there a law against including rental payments in mortgage calculations? What is the penalty?
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I can't possibly see a downside in rental payments being included in mortgage calculations. :rolleyes:

What the UK housing market needs is more financially marginal mortgage lending decisions, especially as interest rates are on the way up. We always forget the last housing "crash". :mad:
 
The Don said:
I can't possibly see a downside in rental payments being included in mortgage calculations. :rolleyes:

What the UK housing market needs is more financially marginal mortgage lending decisions, especially as interest rates are on the way up. We always forget the last housing "crash". :mad:
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Bring back endowment mortgages all is forgiven!!
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Mortgage borrowing rules have been eased after the Bank of England scrapped an affordability test.

The "stress test" forced lenders to calculate whether potential borrowers would be able to cope if interest rates climbed by up to 3%.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62353114
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Should be scrapped - it should now be 10% or perhaps 15%!

"Lenders had to not only work out if borrowers could afford a mortgage at the rate they were being offered, but also work out how they would be affected if interest rates soared by 3%​
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Mortgage borrowing rules have been eased after the Bank of England scrapped an affordability test.

The "stress test" forced lenders to calculate whether potential borrowers would be able to cope if interest rates climbed by up to 3%.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62353114
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At the moment, almost all people have equity in their houses so if they do end up defaulting after interest rates rise, in the short term the banks are covered because for a while there won't be so many issues of negative equity.

As soon as the position is reversed and the banks are out of pocket, they'll come crawling to the government for a bailout. :mad:
 
Truss says she'll get 2,400 pieces of EU-derived regulation off statute books and replaced by domestic regulation by the end of 2023.

Get ready for chaos
 
From a YouTuber discussing what Sunak didn't leave the Cabinet in December, but stayed on and got also hammered for betraying Johnson.

"The bottom line is that he's been outplayed by Liz Truss"

"How bad do you have to be?"
 
Truss says of Sturgeon
"I think the best thing to do with Nicola Sturgeon is ignore her."
"She's an attention seeker, that's what she is."

So much for devolved power.
 
Truss wants to "shake up" Civil Service and public sector pay.

She wants an end to national pay deals.
Pay should be linked to living standards where you work, so jobs could have different salaries depending on location saving up to £8.8bn a year.

Also introducing regional pay would stop the public sector crowding out the private sector in places where private businesses can't compete with public sector pay.

So much for leveling up.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-62390009
 
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