[Politics] Liz Truss **RESIGNS 20/10/2022**

[Westdene Seagull]

She's deluded - and obviously likes a conspiracy theory. I'm no fan of the BoE but the idea that they worked against her is at best idiotic. As for her attack on the OBR - well Liz - they are there to stop people like you giving £45bn of unfunded tax cuts. I suggest you just get back into bed - literally - with your equally deranged ex-chancellor and fvck off.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Unbelievable Jeff

Liz Truss backs Donald Trump to win US presidential election

The ex-PM warns the "world was safer" under Donald Trump's presidency, and the West is "on the cusp" of conflict.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[nicko31]

She's deluded - and obviously likes a conspiracy theory. I'm no fan of the BoE but the idea that they worked against her is at best idiotic. As for her attack on the OBR - well Liz - they are there to stop people like you giving £45bn of unfunded tax cuts. I suggest you just get back into bed - literally - with your equally deranged ex-chancellor and fvck off.

Any normal person would now try and devote their life to good causes after the damage she did. Instead she's on a mission to try and make the Tories become the UK arm of the US Republicans.

Just a wrong un and you guessed now backing Trump

 

[MJsGhost]

Unbelievable Jeff

Liz Truss backs Donald Trump to win US presidential election

The ex-PM warns the "world was safer" under Donald Trump's presidency, and the West is "on the cusp" of conflict.

www.bbc.co.uk

Sadly, it is ENTIRELY believable, Jeff

 

[Eric the meek]

One estimate of how much Liz Truss cost the country was £30 billion.

That's over 200 times the cost of the Rwanda scheme (or at least the costs that we know about).

After that career-defining cockup, she writes a book in which she tries to blame anyone and everyone but herself.

 

[CheeseRolls]

Only one of a number of nutjobs, who make absolutely no sense until you realise they are pitching for right wing US funding, rather than to the UK electorate.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

One estimate of how much Liz Truss cost the country was £30 billion.

That's over 200 times the cost of the Rwanda scheme (or at least the costs that we know about).

After that career-defining cockup, she writes a book in which she tries to blame anyone and everyone but herself.

To be fair, if I'd made a cock up that big I might be tempted to shed some of the blame as well. I might go full on "the lizard people did it".

 

[Peteinblack]

One estimate of how much Liz Truss cost the country was £30 billion.

That's over 200 times the cost of the Rwanda scheme (or at least the costs that we know about).

After that career-defining cockup, she writes a book in which she tries to blame anyone and everyone but herself.

Yet is a prominent member of a political party which is always preaching 'individual responsibility'.

You really couldn't make this crap up. Sadly, you don't need to!

 

[Guinness Boy]

Any normal person would now try and devote their life to good causes after the damage she did. Instead she's on a mission to try and make the Tories become the UK arm of the US Republicans.

Just a wrong un and you guessed now backing Trump

She has an incredible lack of self awareness.

Turning up to that Nazi-a-thon in the US and not realising they were lauding Tommy Robinson is the dangerous side of it. Making the Queen's death all about her (as she writes in her book) is the slightly more humorous side.

It's all about the money IMO. She's been a Lib Dem, republican (in the anti-monarchy sense) and Remainer in the past.

 

[Peteinblack]

#LettuceLiz still trying to blame everyone else for her massive stupidity.

Today's trope? It's "conservative" to give kids the choice to smoke.

She's claiming that the proposals to curb smoking are being promoted by 'unelected' civil servants in the Department of Health.

Kemi Badenoch to oppose smoking ban in blow to Sunak’s authority

Business secretary speaks out as Penny Mordaunt and other ministers waver over support

www.theguardian.com

TTsskkk! Bloody experts.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

How long before we hear that Truss is f***ing Joey Barton?

Edit as in 'doing it', not 'being him'

 

[Braggfan]

She's claiming that the proposals to curb smoking are being promoted by 'unelected' civil servants in the Department of Health.

Kemi Badenoch to oppose smoking ban in blow to Sunak’s authority

Business secretary speaks out as Penny Mordaunt and other ministers waver over support

www.theguardian.com

TTsskkk! Bloody experts.

The irony being she was an unelected prime minister. It's galling to think she can still claim up to £115,000 a year in expenses for being an ex PM.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

She's claiming that the proposals to curb smoking are being promoted by 'unelected' civil servants in the Department of Health.

Kemi Badenoch to oppose smoking ban in blow to Sunak’s authority

Business secretary speaks out as Penny Mordaunt and other ministers waver over support

www.theguardian.com

TTsskkk! Bloody experts.

And yet the vote for or against it will be undertaken by PARLIAMENT !

 

[Machiavelli]

She has an incredible lack of self awareness.

Turning up to that Nazi-a-thon in the US and not realising they were lauding Tommy Robinson is the dangerous side of it. Making the Queen's death all about her (as she writes in her book) is the slightly more humorous side.

It's all about the money IMO. She's been a Lib Dem, republican (in the anti-monarchy sense) and Remainer in the past.

On R4 Today programme at the end of this morning's show, they had a couple of political journos -- Harry Cole from The Sun was one -- who were saying that a primate has more self-awareness than Truss.
But back to her thesis: there's a decade to save the west. Ultimately this is all about geopolitical tectonic plates shifting, and the slow and terminal decline of 'the west' and, as a result of this, you get the likes of Truss' new text which will probably say pretty much the same thing as her previous one Britannia Unchained. It also explains Brexit, which is not the cause of the UK's decline but the sign of it -- it's an accelerant too. Ditto with especially the way that Johnson deployed nationalism -- 'the last refuge of the scoundrel' -- to win the last election. On which, this touches on many of the themes:

Let’s stop talking about ‘great’ Britain – and rebrand ourselves as a different sort of country | Martin Kettle

Any plans for ‘national renewal’ must focus on freeing the UK from its vice of wallowing in guilt or glory, writes Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

www.theguardian.com

 

[Peteinblack]

The irony being she was an unelected prime minister. It's galling to think she can still claim up to £115,000 a year in expenses for being an ex PM.

Indeed, our last 2 PMs have been unelected.

I have to laugh, because otherwise I'd cry!

 

[Peteinblack]

How long before we hear that Truss is f***ing Joey Barton?

Edit as in 'doing it', not 'being him'

That would at least show some consistency - she'd be doing to him what she did to the country, albeit not for long, so a quickie!

 

[CheeseRolls]

She's claiming that the proposals to curb smoking are being promoted by 'unelected' civil servants in the Department of Health.

Kemi Badenoch to oppose smoking ban in blow to Sunak’s authority

Business secretary speaks out as Penny Mordaunt and other ministers waver over support

www.theguardian.com

TTsskkk! Bloody experts.

She isn't the only one though. Lovable old Boris is making the same argument. These people don't believe in governance, which is there to hold those in power accountable. As we get closer to the election there will be people parrotting the all politicians are basically the same mantra. Anyone hearing this has to ask;

Who else would have started a war on red tape, watched the Grenfell disaster unfold and then fail to rectify the mess and prosecute the perpetrators a decade later?​

Who else would enable a rogue chief executve to spend £250k of public money to prosecute a post office manager for a 25k accounting discrepancy, which was a result of a known flaw in the companies IT system?​

Who else would have emasculated the regulators to such an extant that our rivers and seas are filthy and our water infrastructure crumbling, our railways are a national disgrace, our gas and electric costs compare unfavourably to any modern country you could name?​

Who else would have defunded and run down our legal system, so that it is at breaking point and then tried to paint the judiciary as some kind of leftie conspiracy cohort?​

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Did I mention the trade deals, Nanny state, letting the markets decide? All utterly discredited tosh.

 

[Brovion]

The irony being she was an unelected prime minister. It's galling to think she can still claim up to £115,000 a year in expenses for being an ex PM.

Indeed. And to add to the irony she felt she was entitled to a Resignation Honours list - and thus added more unelected members into the House of Lords! (Anyway, I'm glad she is now obviously in favour of abolishing it).

 

[Weststander]

From her example alone, I wonder if there should be a mandatory general election when any PM is replaced, within weeks.

[This could obviously hurt Labour governments too ... Callaghan and Brown never won a GE].

 

[papachris]

She should be ashamed. The worst PM in history. How the hell is she even relevant. Awful woman