Liz Truss’s time is up

[Ax^]

hmm has Truss booked a ticket to Kiev to piss around playing dress up in a tank yet

 

[Supine]

Haha. That’s nice of him.

 

[Karl Masks]

hmm has Truss booked a ticket to Kiev to piss around playing dress up in a tank yet

Don't! She'll accidentally blow up that nuclear power plant, blame it on Russia and start ww3

 

[Artaxerxes]

Haha. That’s nice of him.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

if she wasn't a tory piece of shit I'd feel sorry for her

 

[ska invita]

if she wasn't a tory piece of shit I'd feel sorry for her

good exchange rate tbf

 

[mx wcfc]

good exchange rate tbf

Tbf, you are completely correct. The fall in the pond makes it cheaper for US companies and private equity to buy up UK businesses.

Of course, Truss will frame that as “investment” in the UK, whereas what is really happening is that the country is being sold off on the cheap.

 

[Kaka Tim]

THe way things are going - i.e. the small matter of a completely self inflicted economic meltdown - I think tory mps chucking out truss and replacing her with Sunak in a coup is well within the bounds of possibility.
Where the fuck is she btw?
Has there ever been a more spectacular political self immolation?

 

[ska invita]

Tbf, you are completely correct. The fall in the pond makes it cheaper for US companies and private equity to buy up UK businesses.

Of course, Truss will frame that as “investment” in the UK, whereas what is really happening is that the country is being sold off on the cheap.

it is very fortunate for us that Trump isnt in the white house right now...the next Tory-Republican alignment is going to be savage

 

[elbows]

THe way things are going - i.e. the small matter of a completely self inflicted economic meltdown - I think tory mps chucking out truss and replacing her with Sunak in a coup is well within the bounds of possibility.
Where the fuck is she btw?
Has there ever been a more spectacular political self immolation?

I await more signs that the Truss Fundies are revolting.

 

[elbows]

Both Starmer and Sturgeon have called for parliament to be recalled.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Truss Fundies

Trussafarians

 

[Duncan2]

It would be quite amusing if Truss were to throw Kwarteng under the bus and attempt to carry on as if he had just gone rogue or something.I mean it would be a desperate strategy but I expect she could manage it.

 

[LDC]

THe way things are going - i.e. the small matter of a completely self inflicted economic meltdown - I think tory mps chucking out truss and replacing her with Sunak in a coup is well within the bounds of possibility.
Where the fuck is she btw?
Has there ever been a more spectacular political self immolation?

Yeah, I was wondering where she is. Not one interview I've seen, nor even a comment. Re-inventing herself again?

 

[elbows]

Oops.

 

[Chilli.s]

The fall in the pond makes it cheaper for US companies and private equity to buy up UK businesses.

makes it so much easier when it comes to selling the nhs

 

[xenon]

I know she said she didn’t mind being unpopular. but I did not think she meant with the markets, financial institutions, Business.

 

[Wilf]

I actually would say that the fault there is with the design of the bell-stand rather than Liz Truss.

And, as a matter of interest, why would you make that particular distinction at this present time?

 

[Ted Striker]

It would be quite amusing if Truss were to throw Kwarteng under the bus and attempt to carry on as if he had just gone rogue or something.I mean it would be a desperate strategy but I expect she could manage it.

It's that, or she takes blame for it, not helped by her more acceptably meme-able name.

Just saw the current state of affairs labelled as Trussterfuck on Twitter

 

[pinkmonkey]

Haha. That’s nice of him.

Rishi right now:

 

[Wilf]

It's worth noting that she's having it easy at the moment in terms of the dead sheep attacks that starmer is launching (while Labour have until very recently also still been obsessed with de-Corbynification). John Smith would have destroyed her in Parliament and, heresy though it is to say it, Blair would too. The mixture of his smug but effective oratory and Alistair Campbell's attack dog would have worked as a media strategy. I know many people overestimate the effectiveness of the Labour machine in that period, but there was more of a sense of the (yuk) product being sold, replete with all the snake oil needed to get us to part with our money. Heresy ends.

Maybe though, starmer's moment has come in the sense that this crisis has created a space for someone 'dull but not liz truss'. I still think Labour will need to do more to establish an identity, but for the next few months 'not being liz truss' is quite enough.

 

[Pickman's model]

It's worth noting that she's having it easy at the moment in terms of the dead sheep attacks that starmer is launching (while Labour have until very recently also still been obsessed with de-Corbynification). John Smith would have destroyed her in Parliament and, heresy though it is to say it, Blair would too. The mixture of his smug but effective oratory and Alistair Campbell's attack dog would have worked as a media strategy. I know many people overestimate the effectiveness of the Labour machine in that period, but there was more of a sense of the (yuk) product being sold, replete with all the snake oil needed to get us to part with our money. Heresy ends.

Maybe though, starmer's moment has come in the sense that this crisis has created a space for someone 'dull but not liz truss'. I still think Labour will need to do more to establish an identity, but for the next few months 'not being liz truss' is quite enough.

Sadly not being lt for the next few months,barring truss losing her nerve, is of no importance whatsoever

 

[Wilf]

Sadly not being lt for the next few months,barring truss losing her nerve, is of no importance whatsoever

I notice the guardian are getting feverish about 'letters going in to the 1922' which was one of their obsessions throughout johnson's clusterfuck on stilts. Even though tory mps have the morals not just of the rats fleeing a sinking ship, they are more like the fleas deserting the rats, don't see anything like a challenge happening. They are stuck with her. Unfortunately, we are stuck with the consequences.

 

[Pickman's model]

I notice the guardian are getting feverish about 'letters going in to the 1922' which was one of their obsessions throughout johnson's clusterfuck on stilts. Even though tory mps have the morals not just of the rats fleeing a sinking ship, they are more like the fleas deserting the rats, don't see anything like a challenge happening. They are stuck with her. Unfortunately, we are stuck with the consequences.

There is no way sufficient mps would support a no-confidence vote. The phrase doing the rounds is 'always keep a hold of nurse for fear of finding something worse', and believe you me several names spring to mind who would be even worse than la truss

 

[brogdale]

There is no way sufficient mps would support a no-confidence vote. The phrase doing the rounds is 'always keep a hold of nurse for fear of finding something worse', and believe you me several names spring to mind who would be even worse than la truss

True, but important to remember that they wanted Sunak not Truss.

 

[Artaxerxes]

I notice the guardian are getting feverish about 'letters going in to the 1922' which was one of their obsessions throughout johnson's clusterfuck on stilts. Even though tory mps have the morals not just of the rats fleeing a sinking ship, they are more like the fleas deserting the rats, don't see anything like a challenge happening. They are stuck with her. Unfortunately, we are stuck with the consequences.

Possible she ends up damaged and hobbled like May did and with clear sword of Damocles over head.

It’s Truss though so I don’t expect her to go quietly.

The “I’ve submitted a letter” thing is definitely the lamest rumour mill disguised as news aspect of this stuff

 

[Pickman's model]

True, but important to remember that they wanted Sunak not Truss.

I don't suppose even the Tory geriatric membership are that keen on her any more

 

[brogdale]

I don't suppose even the Tory geriatric membership are that keen on her any more

Thick greedy fuckers deserve to die of shock, tbh

 

[Pickman's model]

Thick greedy fuckers deserve to die of shock, tbh

Too good for them

 

[Wilf]

True, but important to remember that they wanted Sunak not Truss.

Running the leadership again at any point before the next election makes them look like a skip fire on steroids, a box of frogs where the frogs have all brought their mates. Letting this unroll with PM and Chancellor remaining in post fucks them over economic competency and almost certainly brings kieth in as the next fucking useless PM. Ironically, both of those options probably deliver on both of those consequences.