(this is a joke! i always feel bluesky needs that caveat)

How can you spend three weeks telling MPs, you can't do XYZ because the markets think we are too in hoc to our backbenchers - and then do this?

All the whips, advisors, external experts who have been faithfully disseminating this made to look like mugs.

Come for the intro from Damian McBride's Power Trip:

[A niche Westminster tweet but still] one source says - “this would never ever have happened if Steph Driver was still in No10”

One says that some MPs want to boycott PMQs. “If the PM thinks we are feral and too stupid to understand economics, then why on earth would we go out and cheer him on?”

🙏🏼

My analysis - how did No10 radicalise this cohort of loyal, centrist, careerist Labour MPs who are now all out for regime change?

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

They kind of tried to add more roles in from the game with the Seer last time and I had mixed feelings about that one, but I think the cop role would work better

“They’ve realised no one is talking to the whips’ office because no one trusts them,” one Labour MP said.

Suspicious MPs have dubbed it “the Wags’ office” because of how many new whips are married or related to key figures in the cabinet or No 10.

Downing Street insiders are now talking openly about an imminent rise in income tax. “You don’t exactly have to be a genius to have worked out we’re doing it,” one said.

MPs are being buttered up with breakfasts in No 10 and professors and thinktankers are giving private lessons in Economics 101.