Liz Truss’s time is up

[Karl Masks]

who is keeping this circus going? She's an abject fucking grifter, and yet they lap it all up.

 

[steveo87]

who is keeping this circus going? She's an abject fucking grifter, and yet they lap it all up.

A couple of people on here (including me) have said that it kind of feels like this is all a big 'testing the water'strategy to see if there's a consistent level of support for a new 'Conservative' party in the UK. One that isn't just another off shoot of the the Tory Party and/or UKIP wankers.


On current performance you could argue that that is definitely a case - especially if its made up of current and former MPs, who have direct experience of both running for office, winning, and being part of the Cabinet.

On the other hand, those former and current MPs are seemingly the absolute dross of the current Conservative Party, seemingly lead by a woman that a) famously was beaten by a lettuce and b)wears a 'sub' necklace in almost every photo she's in.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

it kind of feels like this is all a big 'testing the water'strategy to see if there's a consistent level of support for a new 'Conservative' party in the UK.

kier starmer thread this way ----->

 

[planetgeli]

It should have been an ancronym of lettuce, LizExpectsToryTwatsCantUnderstandEmpathy. They have a 44 day manifesto.

Lettcue?

 

[steveo87]

kier starmer thread this way ----->

Well exactly!
It's another part of the 'culture war that isnt' aspect of modern political discourse. There's this perception that there's this great swaith of the electorate who both right wing, and not part of a minority group, and (too many 'ands' sorry) are not somehow being represented by anyone - despite being, ostensibly, white middle aged men, and as a result having the entire political landscape designed with them in mind.

The fact of the matter for Truss and her cohorts is that there is a specific reason they keep losing - they're just really, really shit at what they do.

 

[stavros]

From the Huff Post:

 

[two sheds]

Truss’s PopCon group splinters on launch but attacks Sunak’s policies

Just two of four MPs billed to speak present as launch event amounts to evisceration of PM’s government

www.theguardian.com

PopCon's time has come

 

[PTK]

If you ask me, the extreme left’s woke war on society began with Danny La Rue's television debut in 1958.

 

[kenny g]

Conservative Party, seemingly lead by a woman that a) famously was beaten by a lettuce and b)wears a 'sub' necklace in almost every photo she's in.

If she is knowingly expressing her BDSM kink then that would be a tiny, minute, sliver of positivity shining forth from a morass of utter despair. My suspicion is that it was a joke gift from a bullingdon type which she hasn't had the brains to pick up on.

 

[PR1Berske]

who is keeping this circus going? She's an abject fucking grifter, and yet they lap it all up.

Tufton Street.

 

[PR1Berske]

From the Guardian

Cash-strapped local authorities across the UK took out massive 50-year loans at soaring rates of interest in the aftermath of Liz Truss’s catastrophic mini-budget, according to official figures that reveal more about the long-term cost to the public of her 49 days in office.

Figures from the government’s Debt Management Office show that after the budget on 23 September, 2022, announced by Truss’s chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, 24 50-year loans of between £590,000 and £40m were taken out by councils at interest rates of up to 4.77 %, over the rest of that year.


During 2023, while rates remained high, a further 29 50-year loans, including one of £80m by Lambeth council at an interest rate of more than 5%, were taken out as local authorities remained under severe financial pressure.

The way councils have been pressured by successive Tory governments to take on more debt and to adopt risky strategies to get by will be highlighted this week in a speech by shadow levelling up secretary Angela Rayner.

Rayner will argue that the Truss/Kwarteng budget saw councils locked into high interest loans that people will be paying back for decades to come, and that this was symptomatic of a disregard for local authority finance that goes back to the launch of George Osborne’s austerity drive in 2010.

Since then, local authorities have seen real-terms spending power cuts of more than 50%, meaning huge reductions in services, and leaving many now facing bankruptcy.

Last week Rishi Sunak criticised local authorities for putting up council tax too sharply, by more than 5%, even as some have been left on the brink of financial ruin.

Council leaders looking to raise tax by more than the 5% cap either have to be granted permission by central government or hold a local referendum on doing so. Bedfordshire is the only council to have held a vote, in 2015, which it lost.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Truss and Kwarteng should be in fucking prison as far as I'm concerned. Their actions amounted to wanton vandalism.

 

[brogdale]

Truss and Kwarteng should be in fucking prison as far as I'm concerned. Their actions amounted to wanton vandalism.

Agreed; the only useful thing that they achieved was clinically exposing just how addicted ‘the markets’ are to managing, exploiting and appropriating public money; they fucking hate the notion of tax cuts.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Liz Lettuce vs the deep state

Britain’s ‘deep state’ thwarted my plans, Liz Truss tells US far-right summit

Former Conservative PM, whose tenure lasted 50 days, tells CPAC she fell victim to UK’s ‘establishment … its bureaucrats and lawyers’

www.theguardian.com

 

[Elpenor]

Deep state, has she gone Trump?

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Deep state, has she gone Trump?

She's failed in Britain, so is obviously trying her luck in the US. I guess speaking the language is the first step.

 

[brogdale]

Liz Lettuce vs the deep state

Britain’s ‘deep state’ thwarted my plans, Liz Truss tells US far-right summit

Former Conservative PM, whose tenure lasted 50 days, tells CPAC she fell victim to UK’s ‘establishment … its bureaucrats and lawyers’

www.theguardian.com

That.Is.A.Disgrace.

 

[gosub]

Deep state, has she gone Trump?

Deep state = Quangos

Not what I think Bannon and Trump think Deep state is

 

[brogdale]

She's failed in Britain, so is obviously trying her luck in the US. I guess speaking the language is the first step.

Wait 'til she lets the Q-fools know we have our own paedo-pizzagate It'll blow their tiny minds!

 

[brogdale]

apropos not very much, Mrs B reminded me to empty the kitchen bins yesterday; in doing so she remarked that the bins were "a bit Liz Truss". When I looked she said "They.Are.A.Disgrace"

I think that'll stick in our household!

 

[cupid_stunt]

She really is like Johnson, in complete denial that her problems were caused by herself, so just lash out and blame everyone else instead.

 

[steeplejack]

Pathetic, deluded nonentity. The competence and intelligence of a goldfish swimming in a bowl of vodka. Rarely has self-perception and reality had such a gulf between them.

Still, if gullible far right American twats want to pay for this stuff she's more than shameless enough to cash in.

Unfortunately Truss will continue to be a noisy irritant whilst there's money to be made promoting a populist parallel reality. Too much to hope that her local voters will kick her out, I suppose.

 

[Yossarian]

"Now people are joining the civil service who are essentially activists,” Truss said. “They might be trans activists, they might be environmental extremists but they are now having a voice within the civil service in a way I don’t think was true 30 or 40 years ago. So we just have a wholly new problem"

Is she now suggesting that trans people and environmentalists played a role in her downfall? I hope she chokes on a lettuce leaf

 

[izz]

"Now people are joining the civil service who are essentially activists,” Truss said. “They might be trans activists, they might be environmental extremists but they are now having a voice within the civil service in a way I don’t think was true 30 or 40 years ago. So we just have a wholly new problem"

Is she now suggesting that trans people and environmentalists played a role in her downfall? I hope she chokes on a lettuce leaf

It certainly sounds that way.

The whole civil service blaming nonsense never fails to piss me off. If any government manages to strip down the service who's going to do it's bidding?

 

[brogdale]

It certainly sounds that way.

The whole civil service blaming nonsense never fails to piss me off. If any government manages to strip down the service who's going to do it's bidding?

extremist Randian's like the half-witted Truss truly believe that the entire civil service can be privatised and outsourced to Capita etc.

 

[two sheds]

Mind you it was hedge funds and their mates who brought her down wasn't it? Down with the Deep State hedge funds

 

[Johnny Vodka]

She really is like Johnson, in complete denial that her problems were caused by herself, so just lash out and blame everyone else instead.

Not forgetting she has a book to flog.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Not forgetting she has a book to flog.

I doubt it will sell as well as this one!

To commemorate Liz Truss' record-breaking 45 days in office, we set to write an equally memorable book detailing her greatest accomplishments. But, just like her policies, our work was sadly undone. Here's a blank notebook for your troubles.

 

[Yossarian]

Mind you it was hedge funds and their mates who brought her down wasn't it? Down with the Deep State hedge funds

Liz Truss: "We must leave everything up to the wisdom of the markets"

(gets brought down by the markets)

"Damn those transgender deep state civil servants!"

 

[Jeremiah18.17]

On the serious side, the narrative she (and presumably Farage who was sat next to her) were playing into, talking to the Bannonites, was the mix of conspiracism and bigotry that sees anyone in public life with views left of crypto-fascist as an active conscious player in the gLoBaLisT plot.

In America this sees the Trumpoids planning to purge huge swathes of the public sector through persecution, replacement with Rep loyalists, McCarthyism on steroids and presumably something like a beefed up version of the German state’s Berufsverbot laws. (Project 25?)