Yyou know the first mini-budget hasn’t gone down so well when before you’ve been in office for a month “resign” is trending on Twitter and after Monday’s 45p tax drop, social media was abuzz with people mocking the prime minister, Liz Truss, and her beleaguered chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng.
For a leader who had openly boasted about her willingness to take unpopular measures, it turned out that there were, in fact, limits.
Liz Truss, September 21: “I’m prepared to be unpopular.”
Liz Truss, October 3: “I’m not prepared to be THIS unpopular.” ~ AA
— Best For Britain (@BestForBritain) October 3, 2022
And while Truss and Kwarteng weren’t making enough “sorry, it’s my first day, I’m new here” excuses, some people pointed out that there aren’t many jobs you do for the Bank of England to have. to inject up to £65 billion into the economy to stabilize it, and then just dance with it.
Imagine losing 65 billion and keeping your job
— Jolyon Rubinstein (@JolyonRubs) October 3, 2022
Kwarteng’s “mistake” cost us £65 billion. And he will keep his job? Now tell me another job where you can do that in the first week and your boss says “You’re doing it”?
— Emma Kennedy💙 (@EmmaKennedy) October 3, 2022
Over the weekend, Tory leader Jake Berry said: “People know when they get their bills they can either cut consumption or get higher wages or higher wages and go out there and find it new job.” And there’s always plenty of advice on how people on benefits can make monotonous, barely nutritious meals using minimal ingredients to keep kids eating happily and healthily all week. Some combine the two.
Well, I guess this 45p tax rate cut twist means those rich people will have to cut back on consumption or find higher wages. I heard you can get a 1kg porridge for 79p, you know if they haven’t already spent it on phones and TVs.
— Tiernan Douieb (@TiernanDouieb) October 3, 2022
Berry wasn’t the only Tory MP to find his words of support for the policy over the weekend being thrown back on social media on Monday. Many people took to quoting a tweet and reminding senior secretary Simon Clarke how his Sunday morning response to a Liz Truss TV appearance had aged like milk sitting on a window sill in the sun of direct sunlight.
Excellent answer from @trussliz to @bbclaurak at the rate of 45p. We must do what is right to grow the economy and have the simplest and most competitive tax code we can. Instead of obsessing over “optics”, let’s focus on policies that strengthen the country.
— Simon Clarke MP (@SimonClarkeMP) October 2, 2022
That tweet has aged almost as well as this Daily Mail front page, which people also kept reminding us of.
You probably wouldn’t have “die monarch, crash markets and humiliating top tax policy” as your to-do list for your first month as prime minister, nor “and now even the pizza delivery people are laughing at him. us again” .
Advising our drivers to avoid traffic in the Westminster area due to a monumental bend
— Domino’s Pizza UK (@Dominos_UK) October 3, 2022
The social media brand managers at Domino’s Pizza must have seen Labour’s recent lead in the polls and realized they won’t lose customers by flocking to government.
You knew a reliable old cartoon dog would make an appearance.
And another dog with an innocent face also got in on the act, citing the government’s line that the 45p tax cut was not bad policy but had become a distraction from their real agenda.
In reply to Dan Wootton tirade that “the political establishment and the MSM who demanded a left turn from Truss” – “just like with the lockdowns” – won again, the famous video of the GB News presenter’s private and very discreet laying of flowers at Buckingham Palace took. a rebroadcast, retitled as his homage to the short-lived 45p tax rate cut policy.
And will there ever be a political story again where someone on social media doesn’t publish a clip of Joe Lycett’s performance on the opening edition of Laura Kuenssberg’s BBC’s flagship Sunday show?
This time it wasn’t “I’m actually very right-wing and I like it” but his turn for Emily Thornberry, clearly amused at how certain he was of Truss’s vague promises of future help during her previous appearance in the show. . “You are calm, I am calm, are you calm?”
