Theresa May

OldBeanz

As far as I can remember he was the first minister that TB fired. Always came across as trustworthy and on the saner side of the Labour Party.

atush

GingerBob wrote: »

I trust she'll be calling a general election pretty sharpish. Chance then to vote her out.

Not a chance with corbyn in charge of labour

Thrugelmir

zagfles wrote: »

From her speech I suspect:
Cuts to pension tax relief (lower AA, lower LTA, or the other reforms we were expecting a few months ago).
Dismissal of all the WASPI rubbish (she wants equality, and as a 1950's woman herself she can't be seen to act in self interest )
Triple lock maintained but possibly at the expense of other pensioner perks
She'd do well to appoint Frank Field in some sort of role as he's one of the few sensible opposition MPs who comes up with common sense practical ideas rather than failed left wing dogma.

Continual use of the word fair suggests a more balanced approach. A leaf out of Blair's book and the way to woo the disenchanted middle class.

bigfreddiel

Mrs May will be a great PM, she has assembled a great cabinet and I can only see a really rosy future for UK Ltd.

Happy days fj

saver861

bigfreddiel wrote: »

Mrs May will be a great PM, she has assembled a great cabinet and I can only see a really rosy future for UK Ltd.

Happy days fj

Personally I think she has the potential to do a good job. I don't think there is going to a middle of the road situation here ... she will either be very good or awful.

The Tory's don't have an opposition to fight ... so they turn on themselves. If she can keep her team in order then I think she will be there for the next 10 years. If not, we will have a mish mash of a government in 2020 and a miserable 20's decade ....

gadgetmind

zagfles wrote: »

Cuts to pension tax relief (lower AA, lower LTA, or the other reforms we were expecting a few months ago).

All of which have been savaged already. The lower LTA along with the devalued pound means that I'll probably hit it in 2018.

bigfreddiel

saver861 wrote: »

Personally I think she has the potential to do a good job. I don't think there is going to a middle of the road situation here ... she will either be very good or awful.

The Tory's don't have an opposition to fight ... so they turn on themselves. If she can keep her team in order then I think she will be there for the next 10 years. If not, we will have a mish mash of a government in 2020 and a miserable 20's decade ....

You put that more succinctly than I did, and quite right. fj

kidmugsy

Almost nobody seems to have had a kind word to say for The Great Pension Liberator. No wonder politicians despise the electorate.

gadgetmind

kidmugsy wrote: »

Almost nobody seems to have had a kind word to say for The Great Pension Liberator. No wonder politicians despise the electorate.

For just that one act, I would gladly get down on my knees and kiss his feet. I then stand up and kick him in the nuts for all the messing around with pensions allowances, you lknow, people saving their own money for their own old age.

bigadaj

kidmugsy wrote: »

Almost nobody seems to have had a kind word to say for The Great Pension Liberator. No wonder politicians despise the electorate.

Well the feelings mutual.