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Liz Truss’s time is up

mojo pixy said:
It's all fucking horrible, I personally have nothing constructive left to say. All I have apart from keeping my head down and looking after my boy (and the few remaining splinters of community left in my messed up world) is laughing at her name, like I did at boris penis err johnson's.

I literally have no idea what to do next.
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was that not part of Johnson game plan all along make it so that no one cares or engages in politics anymore

plus the divisive nature of brexit under his party tenure has split how people see each other further ..

:hmm:
 
Ax^ said:
was that not part of Johnson game plan all along make it so that no one cares or engages in politics anymore

plus the divisive nature of brexit under his party tenure has split how people see each other further ..

:hmm:
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I don't know about that but my current disengagement is less to do with that prick and more to do with the lack of any engaging political movement that reflects my life and views, and the inceasingly toxic/useless shit shower of Labour.

I know I should be organizing and agitating but I'm a fucking 50-year-old care worker, nobody gives a fuck what I think anyway. And there is no longer any political movement that speaks for me, or that is speaking to me.
 
contadino said:
When you're irreconcilably of polar opposite views as the people pulling the levers, I'm not sure there's much that can be done.

Johnson should've been out on his ear for proroguing parliament, let alone herd immunity, but it didn't suit his enablers to ditch him until now. The same will happen with Truss, and anything you or I do won't make a jot of difference.

Discourse was exhausted years ago.

I'm not suggesting that doomscrolling thru pages of twitter memes and ignored poster is great - just unsure what else is on offer.
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This is learned helplessness.

I refuse to go under.
Are they really going to win merely by dint of grinding us down? I know it feels like that right now. And it doesn’t look like revolution is ever going to happen here.

People are leaving public service jobs in their droves (from fruit picking to doctoring) because everything is so hopeless. Strikes are so hard and so risky, and so few of us are in a union anyway. Rather than staying in the job and fighting for fair pay&conditions people are going into the gig economy, leaving the country, harvesting the equity from their home. It’s not that people are being selfish and taking care of oneself and one’s own family, it’s the way society and community has been slashed and burned by Tory policy for decades. It feels like there’s so little left to save.

What else is on offer is the real question I reckon. Politics is a bust. Starmer won’t help, even if there were a Labour win.

But I refuse to give up, I refuse to go under.

Not talking about it isn’t a solution.
Laughing about it is a coping mechanism the Brits are famously good at but it’s a mechanism that’s keeping us stuck.
 
Truss is such a huge joke that it’s almost impossible to say anything more ridiculous than “Truss won”.
 
Pickman's model said:
2016 was a walk in the park compared to 2022. we didn't know how good we had it.
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My favourite joke around that time:

It’s the year 3016 and Teacher is at the front of the history class. They say “Okay now children, we’re starting a new topic today. Everyone write the heading “The Year 2017”. All the kids shift about a bit, all uneasy like, wondering if Teacher has started losing their memory. One of the kids pipes up and says “Excuse me Teacher….?” Teacher turns around and says “What seems to be the problem now young Pickman’s Model?” He asks “Whatever happened to 2016?” With a sudden look of deep concern Teacher shakes their head and says “ ….. we don’t talk about 2016……”




I worry these current days will also look like naive innocence from the vantage point of some years hence.
 
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www.spectator.co.uk

Is Liz Truss a Tory Jeremy Corbyn? | The Spectator

The membership like Liz Truss. Conservative voters seem to think otherwise
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story said:
My favourite joke around that time:

It’s the year 3016 and Teacher is at the front of the history history class. They say “Okay now children, we’re starting a new topic today. Everyone write the heading “The Year 2017”. All the kids shift about a bit, all uneasy like, wondering if Teacher has started losing their memory. One of the kids pipes up and says “Excuse me Teacher….?” Teacher turns around and says “What seems to be the problem now young Pickman’s Model?” He asks “Whatever happened to 2016?” With a sudden look of deep concern Teacher shakes their head and says “ ….. we don’t talk about 2016……”




I worry these current days will also look like naive innocence from the vantage point of some years hence.
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:confused: Pretty sure I remember Remain claiming prior to the referendum UK would take no further part in history.
 
story said:
My favourite joke around that time:

It’s the year 3016 and Teacher is at the front of the history history class. They say “Okay now children, we’re starting a new topic today. Everyone write the heading “The Year 2017”. All the kids shift about a bit, all uneasy like, wondering if Teacher has started losing their memory. One of the kids pipes up and says “Excuse me Teacher….?” Teacher turns around and says “What seems to be the problem now young Pickman’s Model?” He asks “Whatever happened to 2016?” With a sudden look of deep concern Teacher shakes their head and says “ ….. we don’t talk about 2016……”




I worry these current days will also look like naive innocence from the vantage point of some years hence.
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the year that dares not speak its name
 
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