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Truss on Kuenssberg 09:02 - Oct 2 with 1334 viewsgtsb1966

LK: " did you consult your cabinet on the 45p tax cut"
Truss: " No".
That's another nail in the coffin. Unbelievable.
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Truss on Kuenssberg on 10:20 - Oct 2 with 1186 viewsGeoffSentence

If Kuensburg has turned against them, they really must be trouble.

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Truss on Kuenssberg on 10:22 - Oct 2 with 1179 viewsNthQldITFC

"No... it was a decision that the Chancellor made." - pregnant pause - eyes narrowed - (thinks: 'was I supposed to say that?') - (thinks: 'sh!t')

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Truss on Kuenssberg on 10:33 - Oct 2 with 1141 viewsblueislander

But Gove said later in the programme that that is not unusual . Collective responsibility?
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Truss on Kuenssberg on 10:38 - Oct 2 with 1100 viewsDanTheMan

Truss on Kuenssberg on 10:33 - Oct 2 by blueislander

But Gove said later in the programme that that is not unusual . Collective responsibility?


If that's how it usually works, I guess that's how it works. I'd have thought a heads up would have been the way things would work but apparently not.

Also seemed like she threw KK under the bus a bit by emphasising it was his decision to cut the 45p bit.

What I would have liked to have seen asked was around her point that they needed to do all this now without the OBR getting involved etc. because people needed money off their bills, but that doesn't explain the bankers bonus cap removal of the 45pc rate removal either. Neither of those were necessary.

Gove made a decent point that the issue wasn't as much the tax cuts themselves but that they were unfunded. Her lack of answering around cutting public services (and again shifting that decision elsewhere) makes it seem extraordinarily likely they are going to go the austerity route yet again, even though there is barely anything left to cut.

Sad times ahead.

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Truss on Kuenssberg on 10:41 - Oct 2 with 1083 viewsblueislander

Truss on Kuenssberg on 10:38 - Oct 2 by DanTheMan

If that's how it usually works, I guess that's how it works. I'd have thought a heads up would have been the way things would work but apparently not.

Also seemed like she threw KK under the bus a bit by emphasising it was his decision to cut the 45p bit.

What I would have liked to have seen asked was around her point that they needed to do all this now without the OBR getting involved etc. because people needed money off their bills, but that doesn't explain the bankers bonus cap removal of the 45pc rate removal either. Neither of those were necessary.

Gove made a decent point that the issue wasn't as much the tax cuts themselves but that they were unfunded. Her lack of answering around cutting public services (and again shifting that decision elsewhere) makes it seem extraordinarily likely they are going to go the austerity route yet again, even though there is barely anything left to cut.

Sad times ahead.


Yep. I think we can take from that that there will be cuts in public services which, of course mean very little to those earning over £150 k a year.
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Truss on Kuenssberg on 10:44 - Oct 2 with 1074 viewsGuthrum

Truss on Kuenssberg on 10:38 - Oct 2 by DanTheMan

If that's how it usually works, I guess that's how it works. I'd have thought a heads up would have been the way things would work but apparently not.

Also seemed like she threw KK under the bus a bit by emphasising it was his decision to cut the 45p bit.

What I would have liked to have seen asked was around her point that they needed to do all this now without the OBR getting involved etc. because people needed money off their bills, but that doesn't explain the bankers bonus cap removal of the 45pc rate removal either. Neither of those were necessary.

Gove made a decent point that the issue wasn't as much the tax cuts themselves but that they were unfunded. Her lack of answering around cutting public services (and again shifting that decision elsewhere) makes it seem extraordinarily likely they are going to go the austerity route yet again, even though there is barely anything left to cut.

Sad times ahead.


There's loads of room for benefit cuts - pensions. The elderly beware! I have already seen reports of mutterings that the triple lock is to be reviewed.

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Truss on Kuenssberg on 10:47 - Oct 2 with 1059 viewsgtsb1966

Truss on Kuenssberg on 10:44 - Oct 2 by Guthrum

There's loads of room for benefit cuts - pensions. The elderly beware! I have already seen reports of mutterings that the triple lock is to be reviewed.


She said that the triple lock is staying. That really would be her downfall if she went back on that.
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Truss on Kuenssberg on 11:12 - Oct 2 with 997 viewsDanTheMan

Truss on Kuenssberg on 10:44 - Oct 2 by Guthrum

There's loads of room for benefit cuts - pensions. The elderly beware! I have already seen reports of mutterings that the triple lock is to be reviewed.


She guaranteed the triple lock would be staying, although politicians of course lie. That said, given the demographics of their base, I cannot imagine they will want to anger them further after having come close to destroying their pensions.

I imagine it will be the other part of the welfare state that will be cut, the stuff that's really easy to demonise.

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Truss on Kuenssberg on 13:18 - Oct 2 with 840 viewsgiant_stow

Truss on Kuenssberg on 11:12 - Oct 2 by DanTheMan

She guaranteed the triple lock would be staying, although politicians of course lie. That said, given the demographics of their base, I cannot imagine they will want to anger them further after having come close to destroying their pensions.

I imagine it will be the other part of the welfare state that will be cut, the stuff that's really easy to demonise.


I agree with Guthers - the only thing with any meat on the bone are pensions. If they try and trim much off anything else, the country will go mental and they'll be strikes galore. The govt is screwed each way I spose.

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Truss on Kuenssberg on 13:37 - Oct 2 with 785 viewsDubtractor

They get more blatantly corrupt by the day..


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Truss on Kuenssberg on 13:43 - Oct 2 with 767 viewsNthsuffolkblue

Truss on Kuenssberg on 13:18 - Oct 2 by giant_stow

I agree with Guthers - the only thing with any meat on the bone are pensions. If they try and trim much off anything else, the country will go mental and they'll be strikes galore. The govt is screwed each way I spose.


They would be much less so if, instead of cutting taxation for the richest, they had brought corporation tax in line with developed countries, raised taxes on the richest, and introduced taxation on executive bonuses. They then could pay for the funding needed for public services and reduce the public debt instead of cutting public services and increasing debt all in order to make rich people much richer and poor people much poorer.

How about, instead of CEOs getting any bonuses, we clap them for a minute once a week.

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Truss on Kuenssberg on 14:46 - Oct 2 with 660 viewsHARRY10

The problem is Truss is utterly clueless, like a rabbit caught in the headlights. Unable to explain this brexit lunacy beyond spouting meaningless ERG nonsense.

Reduce costs to business by cutting tax and public spending might sound some radical idea if you are ideologically driven, or as thick as sht. Much of Universal Credit is used to subsidise low wages. Start to cut into that and you push the cost onto employers.

Cut social services, doctors and other early intervention stuff and you merely push the problem further down the line where the costs are then greater....hospitals courts, prisons.

We are reaping the harvest of this right wing bollox as the shortage of nurses and skilled workers is all too apparent. Potholes in the roads, falling hospital roofs, have to be fixed at some point. Using the money saved to fund tax cuts is the lunacy of Thatcherism. Norway used its oil money to invest in a sovereign fund. The UK used its money to buy votes through hand outs.

Sadly a huge number of voters are too thick to see beyond the simplistic message and it matters little as long as the thought is that those with a darker coloured skin are 'sent home'. Expect Truss to fall back on that at some point.
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