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

[happypig]

forgive my ignorance but, what was walpole's fubar?

Allowed the king to pardon John Porteous, who had commanded his troops to shoot protestors. This lead to a riot.
Could see Braverman doing similar.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Allowed the king to pardon John Porteous, who had commanded his troops to shoot protestors. This lead to a riot.
Could see Braverman doing similar.

Braverman and Sunak were heckled in Chelmsford today, about refugees and small boats, by the good folk of Essex, well known for their liberal, left wing views!

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Braverman and Sunak were heckled in Chelmsford today, about refugees and small boats, by the good folk of Essex, well known for their liberal, left wing views!

Note how they chose short police officers.

 

[A1X]

Allowed the king to pardon John Porteous, who had commanded his troops to shoot protestors. This lead to a riot.
Could see Braverman doing similar.

Rubbish. Braverman would be furious with Porteous that he got to do it and not her.

(That's a joke BTW before anyone wants to start whinging)

 

[Bob!]

Braverman and Sunak were heckled in Chelmsford today, about refugees and small boats, by the good folk of Essex, well known for their liberal, left wing views!

What was the heckling though?
That they weren't doing enough to keep the 'illegals' out, I'd guess?

 

[Peteinblack]

What was the heckling though?
That they weren't doing enough to keep the 'illegals' out, I'd guess?

Yeah, like when I occasionally read that some Tories are concerned about poverty - they probably mean that there's still not enough of it!

 

[Thunder Bolt]

What was the heckling though?
That they weren't doing enough to keep the 'illegals' out, I'd guess?

Nope.

 

[Albion my Albion]

Probably.

But we must be careful not to veer dangerously into false equivalence.

Truss is up there with the "very worst of the very worst".

If you say so, I don't see it. Bad is bad but someone will always hate the Prime Minister/President these days. Putting a grade or evaluation on how "bad" they actually were doesn't help.

Unless, of course, you are talking about Donald Trump, he is PURE EVIL, THE DEVIL INCARNATE!!!!

 

[rogersix]

Putting a grade or evaluation on how "bad" they actually were doesn't help.

stating truss was the worst pm in british history doesn't help what exactly, your attempts at a false equivalence?

 

[sparkie]

If you say so, I don't see it. Bad is bad but someone will always hate the Prime Minister/President these days. Putting a grade or evaluation on how "bad" they actually were doesn't help.

Unless, of course, you are talking about Donald Trump, he is PURE EVIL, THE DEVIL INCARNATE!!!!

With what Truss did to many people's mortgage payments and pension pots in her short disastrous stint, I can't think of a worse PM.

Thankfully the pensions somewhat recovered after she was booted out, but some mortgage payers will still be suffering from her ruinous budget.

 

[nicko31]

With what Truss did to many people's mortgage payments and pension pots in her short disastrous stint, I can't think of a worse PM.

Thankfully the pensions somewhat recovered after she was booted out, but some mortgage payers will still be suffering from her ruinous budget.

Pension damage was largely adverted, but the additional cost to servicing public debt will be felt for a long time. A very expensive 49 days.

 

[Nobby]

Has she been charged with Treason yet?

 

[Jim in the West]

Pension damage was largely adverted, but the additional cost to servicing public debt will be felt for a long time. A very expensive 49 days.

Except, if you took your DB pension around then, it's fairly likely that any actuarial factors that were used to adjust early or late payments, and related lump sums, (or transfer values) would have changed (for the worse), and negatively impacted your DB pension. I was almost caught out, but luckily the Trustees of my scheme agreed to honour any quotes that had been produced before the mini budget.

 

[Weststander]

With what Truss did to many people's mortgage payments and pension pots in her short disastrous stint, I can't think of a worse PM.

Thankfully the pensions somewhat recovered after she was booted out, but some mortgage payers will still be suffering from her ruinous budget.

I think it’s been said that the Truss/Kwarteng shit show makes up 0.75% of the mortgage rate increases.

A lot!

The worst combo in our history, probably. And an unelected pm.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Has she been charged with Treason yet?

Do you know what treason actually is these days?

High treason in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Probably not.

 

[Hugo Rune]

Do you know what treason actually is these days?

High treason in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Probably not.

Really interesting story. He wasn’t even British but got hung on a technicality! Great stuff seeing as he was anti-semitic till the end.

“The historian A. J. P. Taylor remarked in his book English History 1914–1945 that "Technically, Joyce was hanged for making a false statement when applying for a passport, the usual penalty for which is a small fine."