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

[Bish Bosh]

The Conservative Party membership voted for this. Insulting the French President, oh yes very funny, well who is laughing now. Party full of mean-spirited narrow-minded prejudiced gammon types...always thought so now proved (sadly) right.

 

[Simster]

Lovely stuff.

 

[Pavilionaire]

So Kwarteng announces he will not increase Corporation Tax to 25% but keep it at 19%, the markets don't like that so you replace him with Jeremy Hunt, a man whose core pledge in the leadership race just 3 months ago was to reduce Corporation Tax to 15%.

The Thick Of It, Veep, Yes Prime Minister don't even come close to this level of incompetence. She was at the lectern for just 9 minutes and fielded just 4 questions in that time. Unbelievable.

 

[Guinness Boy]

 

[BenGarfield]

Wrong Coffee. Sadly Denise is no longer with us.

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The problem with tax is that tories seem to have lower tax as their single most important agenda item. Not because it is coherent, part of a plan for growth, or anything, but because they don't like tax. It's that simple.

That is indeed often a right wing argument

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Thing is, none of these attributes are news, we have known this for weeks/months/years.

However, she still got the second highest number of MPs voting for her and most Tory party members

This.

The last two clowns elected as tory leader are a reflection of the gormlessness of the conservative party. A tory member now is saying he voted for Truss and now thinks she should go. How can anyone actually do that?

Fuckwits.

"Do you trust yourself to choose the next prime minister" Tony asks him.

"I do" he says.

Delusional.

 

[Igzilla]

 

[BBassic]

 

[Simster]

 

[nwgull]

I don’t think so, from reports some Tory MPs would vote for an election now even if it meant losing their seats.

They won't; they'll just oust Truss as leader and hope that her replacement can bring back some credibility over the next 2 years to avoid total wipeout.

I hope I'm wrong, but betting markets have an election next year at 9-2 against, whereas a GE in 2024 is 1-3 favourite.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Sam Coates Sky is retweeting leaked WhatsApp messages between Tories (arguing)


Others have told Peston

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

In the last ten years we have seen the evolution of grotesque tory entitlement. Time after time they f*** everything up, and then come up with a new plan that they declare is better than any other plan. Then they rinse and repeat. Ever more strong, and ever more stable. And some people still buy this. 'They are doing the best possible job under these difficult circumstances'.

Apparently when slavery was ended in the West Indies, many of the former slaves begged their former masters to take them back. There is probably a psychological term for this. Learned helplessness? And some animals will eat their own vomit. All this is behaviour associated with desperation, born of being in a near-death situation. How long will we have to put up with nearly-dead conservatives, 'leading' us, zombie-like, into oblivion, still convinced they have all the answers?

 

[Brovion]

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The last two clowns elected as tory leader are a reflection of the gormlessness of the conservative party. A tory member now is saying he voted for Truss and now thinks she should go. How can anyone actually do that?
...

Oh I dunno, sounds like NSC. A couple of defeats and some posters say "I was a supporter of Potter/De Zerbi/Whoever, but now I've changed my mind!"

 

[BBassic]

How long will we have to put up with nearly-dead conservatives, 'leading' us, zombie-like, into oblivion, still convinced they have all the answers?

Unfortunately for as long as "immigrants!" and "brexit!" and "the last Labour government" continue to work on sections of the electorate.

 

[KZNSeagull]

In the last ten years we have seen the evolution of grotesque tory entitlement. Time after time they f*** everything up, and then come up with a new plan that they declare is better than any other plan. Then they rinse and repeat. Ever more strong, and ever more stable. And some people still buy this. 'They are doing the best possible job under these difficult circumstances'.

Apparently when slavery was ended in the West Indies, many of the former slaves begged their former masters to take them back. There is probably a psychological term for this. Learned helplessness? And some animals will eat their own vomit. All this is behaviour associated with desperation, born of being in a near-death situation. How long will we have to put up with nearly-dead conservatives, 'leading' us, zombie-like, into oblivion, still convinced they have all the answers?

Until the opposition come up with something better.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Unfortunately for as long as "immigrants!" and "brexit!" and "the last Labour government" continue to work on sections of the electorate.

Which is fed by the press every week.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Imagine if you were working on something like Spitting Image now.

"Boss, I've just finished the Zahawi puppet"
"Bad news Janet, He's gone"
"ALREADY!? Bloody hell. Right, I might be able to salvage some of this for the next one. Who is it?"
"Kwasi"
"Right. It's annoying but I'll start now"

A Few weeks later

"Hi boss, here's the Kwasi puppet. You can film that scene with the Truss Puppet now"
"Bad news Jane...."
"Oh f*** OFF"

 

[Frutos]

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

 

[BenGarfield]

Magic Money Tree*. it may as well, as thats the intent, to portray an economy where government can create money and spend on what they like and doesnt need to borrow. despite trillions of dollars, pounds, euros, yen, yuan, etc, it says the governments are doing it all wrong.

(*Modern Monetary Theory)

This is derailing the thread as discussion of MMT is forbidden