Today's News: Winter is Coming

First tonight, what the heck is going on in Britain? 

The  new Truss government seems determined to destroy the British economy in the name of some looney libertarian conservative craziness, while the British people are facing horrific heating bills and mortgage bills this winter.

Liz Truss is in Birmingham for the Conservative Party Conference. I think it’s probably for the best if I change the locks.

— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) October 1, 2022

Martin Wolf: Truss’s growth plan is nothing but a magic potion https://t.co/yHAGru0BtX

— Martin Wolf (@martinwolf_) October 2, 2022

When @michaelgove is fronting @UKLabour broadcasts I suggest that Truss will be toast sooner rather than later … the whole lot of them need to go … https://t.co/boaIMfozLw

— ALASTAIR CAMPBELL (@campbellclaret) October 2, 2022

Right wing politics is the art of explaining why £10,000 a month isn't really that much, while £100 a month is more than enough.

— Charlotte Benton (@C_J_Benton) September 25, 2022

A beloved uncle once said to me that the phrase "the status quo is no longer an option" was "the leper's bell of the modern managerial idiot" https://t.co/PNipBtsNZI

— Dan Davies (@dsquareddigest) October 1, 2022

Some MPs regard Truss’s performance as so poor & budget so disastrous they want her removed as leader. One former minister thought she could be forced out even before Kwarteng makes his next fiscal statement “I think she is gone & they just don’t realise”https://t.co/NqTJI9yYsB

— Professor Danny Blanchflower economist & fisherman (@D_Blanchflower) October 1, 2022

BREAKING: Up to 70 Tory MPs are understood to be planning to topple Liz Truss as prime minister. They only need 40. Have a lovely evening x

— Laura Kuenssberg Translator (@BBCFLauraKT) October 1, 2022

A senior member of the Truss gov’t in Britain just said they are going to “make sure no business under 500 employees gets subject to business regulation.” This is what the “freedom” rhetoric from Conservatives is really about: no rules for capitalists. https://t.co/q9o0YA3wKx

— Gil McGowan (@gilmcgowan) October 2, 2022

This is the same kind of so-called BS "freedom" that Poilievre talks about - yeah, the freedom to underpay people, to cheat customers, to discriminate, to fire staff without cause, etc. 

I thought these tweets made some good points, too:

The problem with this country is people who make $700 per hour have convinced people who make $25 per hour that people who make $7.25 per hour are the problem.

— Mohamad Safa (@mhdksafa) October 2, 2022

The same people who expect perfection from Liberals don’t even ask for decency from Conservatives.@CPC_HQ @PierrePoilievre

— Bernard Roulinski (@roulinski) September 28, 2022