October 10, 2022
As polls showed the Conservatives were likely to be wiped out in Scotland, the cabinet continued to be thoroughly hideous and incompetent. Home Secretary Suella Braverman said it was her ‘dream’ and ‘obsession’ to see a flight take asylum seekers to Rwanda. 'Health Secretary' Therese Coffey was generally grotesque.
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October 3, 2022
New Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng unleashed a mini-budget which included tax cuts for the rich. It had the effect of sinking the pound, crashing the mortgage market, pushing pensions to the brink and forcing a Bank of England bailout. Even the IMF urged the government to “re-evaluate” the package. Prime Minister Liz Truss did a series of disastrous radio interviews trying to defend it.
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September 26, 2022
Ahead of their autumn party conference in Liverpool, Labour revealed Gordon Brown's 'long-awaited' constitutional blueprint which called for, yes you guessed it, federalism. On the same day, Brown said "look at the small print; the Vow was actually delivered". In another non-surprise move, Labour were also said to be considering abolishing the House of Lords, something they've been promising to do for decades.
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September 19, 2022
The Queen's funeral was planned for Monday September 19th. Businesses were falling over themselves trying to send out messages of grief and announcements of closures. It was clear that the day was going to be similar to Christmas, except that television was going to be hijacked. It was almost as if we would be forced to mourn.
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September 12, 2022
When Queen Elizabeth died at the age of 96, the response was predictably hysterical. The BBC suspended all its regular programming and replaced it with wall to wall coverage of the event. Presenter Clive Myrie said the energy price crisis was "of course insignificant now" given the "gravity of the situation". And the government announced a ten-day mourning period.
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September 5, 2022
One highlight of the Tory leadership contest was Liz Truss appearing to have difficulty finding the exit at a press conference. Another was Rishi Sunak being asked at a hustings how he would "suppress" Nicola Sturgeon. In the end, the decision was made by Tory party members, just 0.2% of the population.
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August 29, 2022
On the day that Ofgem, the UK’s energy industry regulator, announced a rise in the energy price cap, meaning average household bills would go from £1971 a year to £3549, nobody from the government was available to be interviewed about it.
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August 22, 2022
Former Brexit negotiator Lord Frost said Scottish independence was “morally wrong” and called for devolution to “evolve back”. He also described the Scottish Government as a “subordinate entity” and suggested making independence impossible by calling for three-quarters of Holyrood seats to be pro-independence over the span of a decade before it was an option.
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August 15, 2022
Anas Sarwar and Douglas Ross shared a stage at the Edinburgh Fringe as part of Ian Dale’s 'For The Many' show, a partnership that the SNP described as “less surprising than being handed a festival flyer on the Royal Mile”.
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August 8, 2022
At a tory gathering in Tunbridge Wells, Rishi Sunak admitted he had worked to divert money from 'deprived urban areas' when chancellor. And The Guardian reported that, rather than levelling up, some wealthy areas of England received 10 times more funding than the poorest.
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