Wanting to make the rich poor is another of those extreme statements I keep hearing, like the ‘’you can’t tax out of a recession.’’ Both are exaggerations used to influence people too lazy or without the capacity to think beyond beyond fed something to satisfy their need to not have to rely on someone else. Anyway, sharing the wealth makes everyone poorer isn’t true anyway. It’s again another exaggeration to frighten and keep loyalty. Thatcher’ ‘’Pulling everyone up (and some up much more than others) rather than pull everyone down’’ speech in parliament had a lot of credibility, but it’s quite different to the stuff I’ve been hearing. Her words were accurate of course, probably thought through to begin with and targeting a socialist Labour Party rather than a sulk and strip the world doesn’t agree with truss policies that Thatcher didn’t implement for a while into her tenure and certain issues were under control. Ahem, certain aspects of the economy and inflation. What we’ve had is Truss pushing through everything now as she carries through the promises she made the nutters who voted her in.

Unbelievable interview by the Conservative Party Chairman Jake Berry on Sky News this morning when he claimed that "it was "nonsense" to claim that the government's tax cuts are helping the richest and said that Liz Truss has an "absolute mandate" from the 2019 election to carry out her new economic policy."

The bloke must be living in cloud cuckoo land if he believes that to be the case

Excellent posts Rudi! Did you see the lizzy interview in America? She was trying her best to look like an old maggie T, with eye liner stretching her eyes, but also speaking slowly, with a massive plumb in her voice- if she concentrated more on the direction of the country rather than being a maggie lookalike, she might do better!Yes, I said plumb in her mouth- as oppose to two plumbs of someone elses loins!

Yes,and the extra plumby voice, a bit like Jacob but the female version.