Just As I Predicted

[gulliver1]

Boris and His gang of "Yes Prime Minister" MPs have had to do a Massive U turn on Windfall Tax forced upon them by The Labour Party.
Well done Sir Keir and Co, you have certainly made Boris look a Bigger **** than he already is

[steg]

Things are/have been changing quite quickly all around.. govs need to keep up with these changes so will have to do u turns sometimes.
Windfall tax, don’t know how much that will help in the long run.. but it may help in the short

[mushroom25]

whether or not to - fine balancing act.

and already businesses are considering their position in light of the new tax
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/may/26/bp-to-review-north-sea-investments-windfall-tax

these businesses pay shedloads of tax. if they take their bats home, it won't be good for government, or anyone else.

[Deskdiary]

Why are u-turns considered bad?

[gulliver1]

18.41 Because Boris was driving in the wrong direction and he thought he knew it all as usual, then due to his very bad driving he could see a car crash ahead so he did a very very quick U Turn to save his own skin. OK.

[Ellipsis]

What a huge coincidence that the announcements were made the day after the Sue Gray report was published. Did the needs of the pee-pull take second place to the needs of the pee-em?

[bobbinwales]

So is it good news or bad news gulliver.. Your confusing me

[gulliver1]

Can't wait ,for this Slime Minister Boris Johnson to go.

[bobbinwales]

Why as his doing what you asked for gulliver.
I'm sure your a Tory plant to make people who are true socialists look dumb and unreasonable

[gulliver1]

20 24, You are easily confused then Bob ?

[bobbinwales]

No confusion from me gulliver.... I can see your a Tory agent trying to make socialists look ridiculous and out of touch,. You don't fool us gulliver

[Peter Pedant]

yes Bob is confused: this is AB

[gulliver1]

20.36.....us!...??

[ToraToraTora]

bob: "I can see your a Tory agent trying to make socialists look ridiculous and out of touch" - mission accomplished then!

[tomus42]

It's the silver lining to partygate. BJ is forced to do something good to distract everyone's attention for a bit.

[jno]

tomus is right - Boris has been forced to use socialist-style handouts to placate an increasingly unhappy public. I suppose when TTT insists Blair wasn't a real Labour PM, just a quasi-Tory, he may also have to point out that Boris is really a Labour man.

Of course we'll all be paying for it in the long run. But I hope it'll keep the wolf from the door for a lot of people.

[gulliver1]

00.28 .If Boris's advisers had thought about it they would have advised him to make these "socialist style handouts", about a month before the next G/E, .
....Dumb Tories....lol.

[davebro]

We may only be a couple of months before the next GE - he should call it NOW.

[gulliver1]

11,48 I wish !

[davebro]

^^^ me too, Boris back with only a 20-30 majority!

[naomi24]

The government has been making ‘socialist style’ handouts throughout the pandemic … or haven’t you noticed? And this isn’t the first windfall tax imposed by a Conservative government. Google it and dispel your delusions.