Liz Truss’s time is up

[ska invita]

Unlike many of us, she's not going to worry about paying bills while struggling mentally. Is it £115,00 a year for life? If I was her, I'd just fuck off to a nice island somewhere with my family.

south georgia is nice this time of year

 

[DaveCinzano]

Unlike many of us, she's not going to worry about paying bills while struggling mentally. Is it £115,00 a year for life? If I was her, I'd just fuck off to a nice island somewhere with my family.

Is there a Pret on the island?

 

[prunus]

Unlike many of us, she's not going to worry about paying bills while struggling mentally. Is it £115,00 a year for life? If I was her, I'd just fuck off to a nice island somewhere with my family.

While she’s indeed unlikely to be worrying about paying (essential) bills the answer to this bit is no, it’s not. She will get very little if anything extra at any point from her disastruss term (possibly a few weeks of enhanced pension contributions).

And it may be a failure of empathy but I cannot feel sorry for her at all.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Maybe I'm a Cunt Celeb... next year for her then?

 

[Dom Traynor]

I hope she tops herself. How many people have died because of her and her mates?

 

[philosophical]

How can she be shattered when she had the right stuff to take on Putin and win?

 

[brogdale]

Wait till Putin starts dripping out the contents of her hacked phone!

 

[killer b]

Wait till Putin starts dripping out the contents of her hacked phone!

why would he even bother

 

[prunus]

why would he even bother

Shitz and gigglez.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

While she’s indeed unlikely to be worrying about paying (essential) bills the answer to this bit is no, it’s not. She will get very little if anything extra at any point from her disastruss term (possibly a few weeks of enhanced pension contributions).

The facts around former PMs’ £115,000 annual ‘allowance’ - Full Fact

They are allowed to claim back up to £115,000 each year for the costs associated with continuing public duties—but it’s not a “salary”.

fullfact.org

 

[Storm Fox]

The facts around former PMs’ £115,000 annual ‘allowance’ - Full Fact

They are allowed to claim back up to £115,000 each year for the costs associated with continuing public duties—but it’s not a “salary”.

fullfact.org

So yeah basically a salary. Once she forms a company that rents out an office from a landlord for £1000 a month and then re-rent it out to Truss for £5k and all her family are 'secretaries'

 

[prunus]

So yeah basically a salary. Once she forms a company that rents out an office from a landlord for £1000 a month and then re-rent it out to Truss for £5k and all her family are 'secretaries'

That would be fraud. The money has to be spent on actual expenses incurred running an office that executes actual public duties.

Of course if she’s willing to do illegal things then there are many ways open to her to make money, as there are to most of us.

 

[Storm Fox]

That would be fraud. The money has to be spent on actual expenses incurred running an office that executes actual public duties.

Of course if she’s willing to do illegal things then there are many ways open to her to make money, as there are to most of us.

Well of course they are all honourable and wouldn't do that.

Family Affair: Nearly 90 MPs Still Employing Family Members With Taxpayer Money

63 per cent of those MPs who employ relatives are from the Conservative party, followed by Labour on 26 per cent.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

 

[prunus]

Well of course they are all honourable and wouldn't do that.

Family Affair: Nearly 90 MPs Still Employing Family Members With Taxpayer Money

63 per cent of those MPs who employ relatives are from the Conservative party, followed by Labour on 26 per cent.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

My point is that she’s not being given some automatic stipend as a reward for 6 weeks of chaos. She has to grift for it, and basically break the law (if she wants personal benefit). Maybe she will, maybe she won’t, but if she does then it’s that that gets the ire, not the theoretical possibility of it. And she certainly couldn’t use it to go and live on an island somewhere.

Anyway that’s the last I’m saying on the matter!

 

[brogdale]

why would he even bother

I suppose it depends on what they've got, (if it was the Russians?), but if there were material that might potentially cause political embarrassment/discomfort, particularly related to Ukraine or surviving ministers etc, why wouldn't he?

 

[contadino]

She can sit back and take a relieved sigh. Others have the ongoing issue of higher mortgage payments to deal with.

I wouldn't pin the energy crisis on her - that was Cameron compounded by Johnson.
I wouldn't pin the Covid debt on her - that was May compounded by Johnson.

But Truss owns all the mortgages that got rejected in her tenure, plus the inflated mortgage rates now on offer, and all the government debt that has a higher repayment cost than before her little economic adventure.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

tbf she achieved a lasting legacy with just over a month in charge. That's pretty impressive.

 

[Smangus]

On breakfast news, there were a couple of Tory insiders talking about how she's personally shattered, an emotional wreck, life in ruins around her, hopes abandoned and dreams turned to dust, barely able to function, stumbling on a precipice, friends and family worried sick.

Maybe they were just trying to offer the nation something positive, but it seemed like a departure from the way people in public life are usually talked about. There was raw pity about actual breakdown rather than anything more jokey. I was quite struck by the tone of it.

If she was watching, it would've sent her deep inside another bottle. It was killing with kindness.

Fuck her , hope she drowns in it.

 

[steveo87]

On breakfast news, there were a couple of Tory insiders talking about how she's personally shattered, an emotional wreck, life in ruins around her, hopes abandoned and dreams turned to dust, barely able to function, stumbling on a precipice, friends and family worried sick.

This has cheered me up no end, thanks.

 

[Orang Utan]

I’m not sure her family are worried sick. Her dad has disowned her and no longer speaks to her.

I favour her being dehelicoptered along with Anderson, Braverman, Kwarteng, Patel, Badenoch and IDS. Fuck it, dehelicopter the whole lot of em

 

[Johnny Vodka]

I’m not sure her family are worried sick. Her dad has disowned her and no longer speaks to her.

I favour her being dehelicoptered along with Anderson, Braverman, Kwarteng, Patel, Badenoch and IDS. Fuck it, dehelicopter the whole lot of em

Helicopter to Rwanda, with a wee stop off over a deep body of water somewhere.

 

[killer b]

Her dad has disowned her and no longer speaks to her.

is this actually true?

 

[Orang Utan]

Helicopter to Rwanda, with a wee stop off over a deep body of water somewhere.

Not the English Channel, where she may land in a dinghy bursting with refugees who would probably rescue her and treat her kindly, only to get a different welcome when they get to England

 

[Serge Forward]

Hmm... not keen on the whole "dehelicopter" thing as it has a horrible background (Pinochet, memes by US far right gobshites). I much prefer Pickman's model's more humane South Atlantic approach.

 

[Orang Utan]

is this actually true?

Apparently so.

 

[Bingoman]

is this actually true?

I ve heard that

 

[two sheds]

And I started the rumour so it's from a reliable source.

 

[killer b]

I ve heard that

where?

 

[Orang Utan]

And I started the rumour so it's from a reliable source.

I heard it from my dad, who is friends with the partner of a colleague of John Truss, who’s a retired (emeritus) professor of pure maths at Leeds University and who thinks Corbyn was too soft.
I wouldn’t believe it if I read it in a tabloid, mind.

 

[Bingoman]

where?

I saw a news piece on the day when she became Tory Leader