Today's drive

But the actual policies (or frankly lack of any action on any front), especially regarding tax were very socialist. Reducing the allowance for CGT, not increasing the thresholds for the tax bands, and other aspects which stopped market activity...

The right wing voices were simply that - voices. No policies were enacted. Even Rwanda has been taken over by the socialist Germans!

The Tories can't all be lefties. The country has been in decline since the great silverware sell off started after 1979.

All the tax cuts have been funded by cutting services, military budget, councils being more dependent on local council tax funding lightning the load on central government to the point a surprising number of larger councils are on the brink of bankruptcy. VED reduced to £35 for cars pre-2017.

I suppose all that is the work of Labour ? 🙄

I know it's on the BBC. But Germany are not taking over the Rwanda policy as you put it, and the BBC article you posted does not say they are. That is, and sorry to call it this but it's about time we started, a lie. And the BBC article is a very poor one. Surely you can't take "German official suggests" to mean "Even Rwanda has been taken over by the socialist Germans!" Here's a snippet from below the headline: "Joachim Stamp, from the Free Democratic Party, which is a junior partner in the governing coalition, suggested accommodation originally intended for people deported from the UK could be utilised by Germany. However, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has previously expressed scepticism about processing asylum applications abroad and the idea is unlikely to be taken forward." Not only that, teh German official in question is suggesting processing asylum abroad under international law, which is entirely different to teh Tory party's idea of deporting people there to stay forever, writing lies into British law and breaking international law.

Truth matters. If Party A has a good policy, I'll say so, for example I approved of the Conservative's move to ban the sale of tobacco progressively. Sadly, the majority of the things they did since 23rd June 2016 have not met my tests. I cannot conceive of anyone of reasonable intelligence, and in good faith, supporting their Rwanda debacle. I am 99% certain even James Cleverley knew it was merely a political stunt which he calculated would win electoral support. How did that go, eh.

The decent, centrists from the Conservative MPs were got rid of (some just resigned etc.) after Brexit. I think mot of the Conservatives are toxic and willing to veer to the far right. But then so have the Germans and French.

On a bus today (I do use them you know at times) and someone was talking to their husband and complaining that Keir was a communist, they'd taken their winter fuel allowance but migrants get everything. But the two of them were sitting in separate seats at the front of the upper deck taking up more space than needed. We wish we'd commented to them.

Later on chatted to numerous others who were nice people which is usually the case around here.

It omitted Hungary because oban is a terrible dictator and a puppet of Putin. I hadn't realised Spain had gone that way or Italy.

If Trump is elected then things will get a lot worse. Fingers crossed he does not.

The current lot can't decide if they want to be Tories or Old Labour. There is a lot of illogicality in the initial decisions which is winding up the very people they need to remain in power at the next election. The decision to pay already high earning train drivers a huge increase whilst at the same time, taking away the winter fuel allowance was mad. Certainly paying the allowance to people who are already paying tax at 40% is nonsense but if it affects those who are not troubling HMRC anyway, that is really shooting yourself in the foot.