Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "Liz Truss resigns: Will Boris Johnson be next PM?" video.

  1. What on earth are you talking about? The UK public never decide the PM in general elections. The UK public vote for candidates in their electorate, and the party that wins enough electorates takes government. PMs are ALWAYS decided by the party in government and can be changed at any time. The general public have precisely zero say in whom the PM is, just as the general public have exactly zero say in whom is head of state (the king). Try understanding the Westminster system. You have never voted in a PM in your life.
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  2. Labour at talking about breakfast clubs and increasing wages mate. One of those things solves nothing, the other creates structural inflation. Labour have less of a plan than Truss did and they know it. BoJo is the only realistic option
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  3. Come come Linzi, the UK have been a laughing stock much longer than BoJo hanging about. Bring back BoJo, he should never have left. So what if you had to stay home and didn't get invited to his party. Who cares if he tried to save your feelings by not telling you about it. Labour have even less of a plan on inflation than Truss did. They're out here talking about breakfast clubs instead of how to increase productivity, and dodging direct questions on what they'd do differently. BoJo is the only genuine option
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  4. Nah. Just bring back BoJo. He should never have left. Leave him there until the election is due.
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  5.  @mappybc6097  Imagine being so desperate to push a partisan thought that you abandon the topic of the thread and retort about some mumbled nonsense. The only person whom has the right to call an election is the sovereign head of state, the crown monarch and it's been that way since magna carta. Are you really so deluded as to believe the UK is a democratic state? Because it's not. Between the house of lords and the monarchy, it never can be. Commons is a compromise to stop revolt, nothing more. It holds no real power, every piece of legislation has to be signed off by the unelected ruling class and the crown whom owns the whole thing. That's not ceremony, that's function by design. It's the root cause of why people don't elect PMs, because the PM isn't the representative of the people. The PM is the representative of government, to be specific of cabinet and appointed at the discretion of the crown for whom all ministers belong. Politics in the UK isn't about common folk, it's about what's good for the ruling class and always has been. None of that however is at all relevant to inflation. Global inflation isn't being caused by the quite entertaining clown show that britpol is, and has been for some many decades now. It's likewise not caused by partisan politics, nor brexit. It won't be helped anymore by school breakfast than it will tax cuts. Indeed trying to lift wages as a means of combating inflation only generates significantly more inflation. Labours plan would destroy the economy as badly as Truss' did. Neither major party has any kind of meaningful plan on inflation. They're both children fed to wolves, utterly clueless about what's happening or how to respond. The ONLY ways to handle inflation are by decreasing spending and increasing productivity. Increasing productivity isn't the same as growing the economy. Given many of the productivity components are caused by factors in yankville and China, what can be done domestically is limited. However it isn't hopeless, dropping the sanctions on Russia and working to re-establish normal relations would have a huge relief effect on inflation. Interest rates work but that's a huge hammer to wield. Grant schemes or government backed loans for businesses wishing to expand production also help. But mostly you have to reduce spending and encourage saving. Use less. That's literally the only way, and it's a pretty unpopular message so no politician wants to say it.
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