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[Politics] Liz Truss **RESIGNS 20/10/2022**
- Thread starter Ethelwulf
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Randy McNob
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- Jun 13, 2020
- 4,725
Didn't Sunak only get the job as no one stood against him? So wasn't elected by the electorate, not elected by his peers, and not elected by the party members, he was merely the only person in the room and given the role by default?
Hopefully she’ll lose her seat at the next GE - perhaps she knows it and is set to rise like a phoenix from the pyres of her most recent political crash and burn as a independent PoCon
Liz Truss faces VERY unusual election campaign from Turnip Taliban rival
The man who hopes to topple former prime minister Liz Truss at the next election is taking to his toes as he hits the campaign trail.www.edp24.co.uk
That would be an impressive swing if she did lose her seat.
That said, anyone sane who's been paying attention for the last few years might think twice about voting for her again wouldn't they?
Wouldn't they?
Pevenseagull
meh
- Jul 20, 2003
- 20,693
Can someone please get Truss to shut the f*** up.
She's a f***ing embarrassment to our species.
She's a f***ing embarrassment to our species.
Pevenseagull
meh
- Jul 20, 2003
- 20,693
There's thick, then there's Liz Truss thick, then there's Liz Truss supporter thick, then there's what's left after thick mince that you probably rinse rather than wipe off.
idiot ****.
idiot ****.
Pevenseagull
meh
- Jul 20, 2003
- 20,693
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Pevenseagull
meh
- Jul 20, 2003
- 20,693
She's so f***ing stupid she would get pickpocketed on a nudist beach and blame it on the Bank Of England being woke.
And the institute of economic affairs would back her up and still be a registered charity.
And the institute of economic affairs would back her up and still be a registered charity.
Just fill in the gap. The distinct shortage of expert voices (that agreed with our half baked mantra). Whatever happened to Prof Patrick Minford?
The playbook is all Trump and Johnson. Admit nothing, apologise for nothing, lie and deny and brazen the whole thing out. You then have to hope that enough people see you as a strong leader, hated by the tofu munching wokerati, rather than see straight through you.
Biding his time before putting forward his name to become leader of the opposition.
Machiavelli
Well-known member
Off the back of the strong showing of a local independent in Rochdale who finished second, there's a local candidate that's standing in Truss' constituency. There's a great article on her linked below. My hunch is she'll lose.View attachment 180652
That would be an impressive swing if she did lose her seat.
That said, anyone sane who's been paying attention for the last few years might think twice about voting for her again wouldn't they?
Wouldn't they?
‘She still carries an aura of spectacular failure’: why hasn’t Liz Truss gone away?
Her 49 days in power ended in catastrophe, yet the shortest serving prime minister in British history is back, launching a new conservative movement with global ambitions. You just can’t keep a bad politician down …
www.theguardian.com
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
He's up to his ears in the Middlesbrough freeport debacle. Maybe that's one of the reasons there are so many dead cats around.
The Willie Wragg scandal seems have been shelved without finding out who the other compromised MPs are.
- Aug 8, 2005
- 27,237
Her book came this morning as I pre-ordered. I want to see what she says on this fully as I've only seen clips. However there is some validity in what she says that globally interest rates went up, in fact we lagged behind the states. I remember being on a call to the US some months before Truss came in and they were asking about mortgage rates and I said they were fine and he said just you wait, its happening here so it will come to you soon enough. He wasn't wrong.
However the way she and her lunatic of a chancellor dealt with it definitely accelerated it here which was foolish on their part. I agree with a lot of what Truss says but unfortunately her manner and personality are not in keeping with someone to be Prime Minister. Had Sunak used the same policies with Hunt as Chancellor their delivery alone would have been infinitely better and I suspect they would have taken a baby steps approach to change rather than the size 12's that Truss stamped down. The pace of change needed to be much slower. Probably if she had had the full 5 years she might have gone about it differently?
The Tories were on to a loser as soon as they started meddling with democracy and electing their own leader. You can get it away with it once, but after that it's just laughable.
I agree with others on this thread, if you change the leader and therefore PM mid term you should be obliged to call an election within 6 months. Boris had many failings but at least he had the balls to go to the country and call an election to get a mandate soon after he took the job (Elected as leader in June, called the election in October for December 12th). 80 seat majority as a result. They should have stuck by him for better or worse and then let the country decide not a few MPs who were just self focused.
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 72,358
The fact that she threw her fellow halfwit Kwasi Kwarteng under a bus tells you just about everything you need to know. Who on earth - apart from somebody who was being paid to review it - would buy her book?
Fun little quiz.
www.theguardian.com
Liz Truss quiz: did she really say that in her book?
Can you guess which things Liz Truss actually claimed in her book and which are our fantastic inventions?
www.theguardian.com
Pavilionaire
Well-known member
- Jul 7, 2003
- 31,273
Never again should 180,000 Tory Party members be able to decide the next Prime Minister. "Taking Back Control" - my arse!
- Oct 12, 2022
- 2,698
Let me stop you there…
Apologies if I am putting words in your mouth, by trying to second guess which bits you agree with. My guess is that a low tax economy will stimulate growth? This would probably work best with a population biased towards young people of a working age. How do you build a dynamic growing economy heavy with retirees? I realise there are plenty of oldies working and contributing to the economy in many different ways, but there are also huge numbers who can't or choose not to work.
