Liz Truss’s time is up

[platinumsage]

Yes - and of course all suggestion of green energy has gone out the window with the proposed windfall taxing of the industry ...

That windfall tax on renewable providers seems reasonable. They are receiving electricity rates linked to the gas price despite their input costs not increasing. This was all massive extra shareholder profits and wouldn’t have been invested in new schemes.

 

[xenon]

The Party will need to change its rules I think to get rid of her that quickly?

Rules can be broken or changed. Only takes the 1922 committee to vote on the latter.

 

[Bingoman]

I wonder whether the new chancellor statement this morning and the one in the Commons this afternoon will help or Hinder the poll rating

 

[cupid_stunt]

I wonder whether the new chancellor statement this morning and the one in the Commons this afternoon will help or Hinder the poll rating

I can't see any possible improvement in polling until Truss is gone, then it will depend on who is the new PM and how well they perform.

 

[kabbes]

I can’t even spell 150 billion in numbers, but if that’s really what her energy cap promise was costed at and most of that would obviously have gone to subsidise big houses with orangeries then yeah that seems completely mad, I was away but don’t think there was a big reaction at the time saying it was wrong?

People always focus on what they’re getting and worry about whether those who are already worse off than them are getting more. For some reason, they never look upwards.

 

[elbows]

The big thing is that the 'energy price guarantee' will only last until April, instead of 2 years, with a review of what to do going forward.

And if I recall correctly at the last PMQs the main thrust of how Truss tried to deflect questions and attack Labour on that occasion was to repeatedly go on about how Labour were failing to declare that they supported it lasting for 2 years.

Truss has trickled down the drain.

 

[bimble]

People always focus on what they’re getting and worry about whether those who are already worse off than them are getting more. For some reason, they never look upwards.

Quite interesting that isn’t it. But this recent mini budget disaster giveaway for the richest has changed it a bit maybe.

 

[Artaxerxes]

So back to square one, mini budget undone, but we get increased mortgage costs anyway. Oh and some nice price rises down the line.


Yay.


Bonus meme for improving the mood;

 

[cupid_stunt]

And if I recall correctly at the last PMQs the main thrust of how Truss tried to deflect questions and attack Labour on that occasion was to repeatedly go on about how Labour were failing to declare that they supported it lasting for 2 years.

Truss has trickled down the drain.

That, and her absolute promise of no spending cuts, which we now know will be happening and announced on the 31st Oct.

 

[elbows]

That, and her absolute promise of no spending cuts, which we now know will be happening and announced on the 31st Oct.

Yeah, at the time I thought she might just have blurted that out without any consideration, since that promise removed most of the remaining wiggle room there was to try to stick to her budget while standing any chance at all of making some of the numbers add up.

 

[ska invita]

So back to square one, mini budget undone, but we get increased mortgage costs anyway. Oh and some nice price rises down the line.

Biggest difference is Tory polling...I expect those other price increases wouldve been coming anyhow

 

[cupid_stunt]

Yeah, at the time I thought she might just have blurted that out without any consideration, since that promise removed most of the remaining wiggle room there was to try to stick to her budget while standing any chance at all of making some of the numbers add up.

She always blurts out stuff without proper consideration.

 

[elbows]

She always blurts out stuff without proper consideration.

Indeed. Given that Obama thought Cameron was a lightweight, I assume that Truss takes that so much further that she is almost a one person hydrogen economy in herself.

 

[Bingoman]

Tonia Ellwood has told Sky News that this crisis in the Governmet is worst since Suez

 

[SysOut]

Tonia Ellwood has told Sky News that this crisis in the Governmet is worst since Suez

In both cases the U.S. had to give the nudge.

 

[Wilf]

Unlike Johnson she a) hasn't won an GE b) does not have an organized group within the HoC backing her c) isn't neck and neck in the polls and d) has actively antagonized numerous powerful factions. She might not go this week but she isn't going to see in Christmas in Downing Street.

I was going to post something along these lines. To say her position is weak would be an obvious understatement, but she's fucked in pretty much every realm of political and economic life, as you say. I'm struggling to think of a PM who ever made such a massive strategic mistake and ended up so weak and friendless, with everything she stands for being unraveled in real time. Not even Neville Chamberlain (quite) ticked all these failure boxes.

 

[elbows]

Tonia Ellwood has told Sky News that this crisis in the Governmet is worst since Suez

Its a shame that blowing my own trumpet fulfils no useful function, since I managed to get black wednesday and suez on my bingo card in this thread a day or two ahead of the crowd.

 

[MickiQ]

Just had a visit from my first born who tells me that she and her husband took the boys to Blackpool yesterday to see the lights, they popped into Madam Tussauds and apparently they still have Boris Johnson as PM. Eldest Q is apolitical at the best of times but even she wondered if Truss will be PM long enough for it to be worthwhile Tussauds making a wax figure of her.

 

[Petcha]

As an example of micro-management and public humiliation of his assistant you have to really give to Hunt, not had to suffer from it, but observed it. I've had bosses like that. Poor Liz.

 

[Aladdin]

she says her interests are the party's interests and so is unlikely to quit on that basis

Unfortunately, the party doesn't think her interests are the party's.
Still think she is dead in the water.

 

[Pickman's model]

Unfortunately, the party doesn't think her interests are the party's.
Still think she is dead in the water.

Yeh but she won't quit in the party's interests

 

[Aladdin]

Yeh but she won't quit in the party's interests

She may need a little push.

 

[elbows]

The consequence of building on the deep thoughts of Dubyas 'make the pie higher' by putting the pie in the sky.

 

[Wilf]

Just had a visit from my first born who tells me that she and her husband took the boys to Blackpool yesterday to see the lights, they popped into Madam Tussauds and apparently they still have Boris Johnson as PM. Eldest Q is apolitical at the best of times but even she wondered if Truss will be PM long enough for it to be worthwhile Tussauds making a wax figure of her.

A reminder that all political careers end in failure meltdown.

 

[elbows]

A reminder that all political careers end in failure meltdown.

Like a nuclear meltdown, the reactor core has tricked down into the basement.

 

[Pickman's model]

Like a nuclear meltdown, the reactor core has tricked down into the basement.

what a treat

 

[bimble]

find it very hard to give a shit whether she stays or goes what difference does it make?

 

[Bingoman]

Tory MP Mark Garnier has just said on BBC Radio 5Live that he would be up for A General election only if if his party change leaders

 

[Supine]

find it very hard to give a shit whether she stays or goes what difference does it make?

Our Liz killed the queen, banned the king from a climate conference, impoverished a nation and turned the national trust against the conservatives. Just imagine how things would go if we really gave her time to get stuck in.

 

[ska invita]

find it very hard to give a shit whether she stays or goes what difference does it make?

longer she stays more chance of a labour government?
contain your excitement