Liz Truss’s time is up

[Pickman's model]

Truss is either going to just keep digging her own grave and trip over herself in her haste to climb into it, or she’s going to become very very biddable and malleable. Which was what I’d assumed she was going to be.

I wonder if this meaty pushy headstrong thing is her attempt to try to be “her own person” and after this she’ll revert to being the Playmobil PM that will pose for any pic and pick any policy that’s punted to her by the big pricks who will no doubt be pushing her from behind.

She’s either gone, or she‘ll buckle.

Pppffttt.

first aid kit sang they would rather be broken than hollow. liz truss won't have to make that choice as she is already hollow and she will break. and it'll be one of the most peculiarly public breakdowns you'll ever see, like something off the thick of it

 

[agricola]

first aid kit sang they would rather be broken than hollow. liz truss won't have to make that choice as she is already hollow and she will break. and it'll be one of the most peculiarly public breakdowns you'll ever see, like something off the thick of it

peculiar like Frasier's condo board presidental run speech?

 

[Pickman's model]

peculiar like Frasier's condo board presidental run speech?

yes but more so

 

[flypanam]

the really chilling bit was watching Truss take to the stage to the refrain Nothing can stop me

Like that time Trump was using The Ghostbusters theme tune and stepped on to stage just as Ray Parker Jr sings ‘bustin’ makes me feel good’

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Just to remind everyone, this is the person in charge of the public healthcare system. A picture of health herself.

God help us. Truss is scrapping the sugar tax and probably also the government's anti-obesity strategy, while the NHS struggles and it's apparently almost impossible to register now with an NHS dentist in England.

 

[steveo87]

Just to remind everyone, this is the person in charge of the public healthcare system. A picture of health herself.

See, the thing is.
She's a fucking bellend because she's a Tory.
Not because of her appearance.

This is quite tame in comparison of some of the photos out there of me on the piss.

 

[Serene]

I have never seen such an arrogant politician.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

I’ve just watched the speech. The highlight for Truss was the Greenpeace protest. Momentarily livened things up and got the crowd behind her.

The rest was just odd: the stilted delivery, the wild eyed desperate smile of someone who knows that they are well out of their depth the palpable nostalgia for 1980 and desire to re-fight battles that have been fought, the story about being on a plane and being ‘angry’ at the gift of an air stewards badge, the stunningly bad research that led to the claim that she’s the only PM to have been to a comprehensive.

But the really odd bit was the intervention placing herself on the side of the growth coalition against the anti-growth coalition. A battle she apparently intends to lead involving two sides that don’t actually exist. A fight that nobody knew was happening or believes is happening. A gift for the ‘blob’ she thinks she’s counterposed against.

The entire speech was pitched at the dwindling sect that the Tory party has collapsed into. I can’t say it made me angry or more committed to doing stuff. It just made me think that it’s the weirdest speech I’ve ever heard from one of the mainstream party leaders. She’s genuinely off her nut. I can’t believe her controllers let her deliver it frankly.

 

[SysOut]

God help us. Truss is scrapping the sugar tax and probably also the government's anti-obesity strategy, while the NHS struggles and it's apparently almost impossible to register now with an NHS dentist in England.

Just a reminder...

 

[bellaozzydog]

Just a reminder...
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petition.parliament.uk

 

[Karl Masks]

I’ve just watched the speech. The highlight for Truss was the Greenpeace protest. Momentarily livened things up and got the crowd behind her.

The rest was just odd: the stilted delivery, the wild eyed desperate smile of someone who knows that they are well out of their depth the palpable nostalgia for 1980 and desire to re-fight battles that have been fought, the story about being on a plane and being ‘angry’ at the gift of an air stewards badge, the stunningly bad research that led to the claim that she’s the only PM to have been to a comprehensive.

But the really odd bit was the intervention placing herself on the side of the growth coalition against the anti-growth coalition. A battle she apparently intends to lead involving two sides that don’t actually exist. A fight that nobody knew was happening or believes is happening. A gift for the ‘blob’ she thinks she’s counterposed against.

The entire speech was pitched at the dwindling sect that the Tory party has collapsed into. I can’t say it made me angry or more committed to doing stuff. It just made me think that it’s the weirdest speech I’ve ever heard from one of the mainstream party leaders. She’s genuinely off her nut. I can’t believe her controllers let her deliver it frankly.

She's like a weird marionette

 

[billy_bob]

Truss is either going to just keep digging her own grave and trip over herself in her haste to climb into it, or she’s going to become very very biddable and malleable. Which was what I’d assumed she was going to be.

I wonder if this meaty pushy headstrong thing is her attempt to try to be “her own person” and after this she’ll revert to being the Playmobil PM that will pose for any pic and pick any policy that’s punted to her by the big pricks who will no doubt be pushing her from behind.

She’s either gone, or she‘ll buckle.

Pppffttt.

I wonder how different the outcome would be, between these two scenarios? She's surrounded by the kind of fanatics and sociopaths who, if they did end up pulling the strings, might just make her carry on digging the same grave.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

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Yeah, fair enough, but abandoning public health messaging (Truss says she doesn't want to tell us what to put in our shopping baskets), strategies and taxes seems like a new assault on the health of the nation. The sugar tax wasn't money that was disappearing into thin air, but was being used to fund programmes to improve health. Truss plan to axe sugar tax runs into legal and parliamentary hitches

 

[Smokeandsteam]

I wonder how different the outcome would be, between these two scenarios? She's surrounded by the kind of fanatics and sociopaths who, if they did end up pulling the strings, might just make her carry on digging the same grave.

She’s also surrounded by MPs who overwhelmingly voted against her. At some point - if only in an attempt to save their own skins - they’ll ditch her. Her ideas and policy ideas, such as they are, are dead in the water

 

[Leighsw2]

Internet political commentator with some dodgy posting history. I do think she's an effective communicator though
Good at skewering Tory hypocrisy in bite size 2 minute pieces.

She's a fucking Starmerite cultist and she can fuck off!

 

[Sue]

the stunningly bad research that led to the claim that she’s the only PM to have been to a comprehensive.

Gordon Brown wasn't exactly that long ago.

 

[belboid]

Gordon Brown wasn't exactly that long ago.

His school (founded 1536) only went comprehensive a couple of years after he left

 

[Sue]

His school (founded 1536) only went comprehensive a couple of years after he left

Interesting. Most Scottish schools that were previously selective have 'academy' or 'grammar' in their names so plain 'high school' is unusual.

 

[not-bono-ever]

I can imagine quite esily that Truss dreams every night of having to present a 6th form seminar on algebra but did not do any preparation, doesn't understand algebra , has forgotten to wear any trousers and is wearing pink bunny slippers. We have all had this dream

 

[belboid]

Interesting. Most Scottish schools that were previously selective have 'academy' or 'grammar' in their names so plain 'high school' is unusual.

Yeah, I think that’s because it is so old and ‘special’. It started being called a high school in the mid 1800s, apparently.

 

[belboid]

I can imagine quite esily that Truss dreams every night of having to present a 6th form seminar on algebra but did not do any preparation, doesn't understand algebra , has forgotten to wear any trousers and is wearing pink bunny slippers. We have all had this dream

Except she’d think she’d still smash it.

 

[izz]

*sigh

Does anyone have a clue what this 'anti-growth coalition' actually is. ?

 

[ska invita]

*sigh

Does anyone have a clue what this 'anti-growth coalition' actually is. ?

a 3 word soundbite designed to center her political project - also makes an enemy to oppose: the new "remoaners" or "project fear" or "bleeding heart liberals"
if she lasts the winter llook out for another 3 word slogan soon along the lines of Get Growth Done

 

[SpookyFrank]

*sigh

Does anyone have a clue what this 'anti-growth coalition' actually is. ?

No but Truss is definitely part of it. Every time she opens her gob and blathers something about growth the economy shrinks a bit more.

 

[Elpenor]

*sigh

Does anyone have a clue what this 'anti-growth coalition' actually is. ?

It’s the tobacco industry; everyone knows smoking tabs stunt growth

 

[Artaxerxes]

*sigh

Does anyone have a clue what this 'anti-growth coalition' actually is. ?

Themmuns

 

[Pickman's model]

*sigh

Does anyone have a clue what this 'anti-growth coalition' actually is. ?

All the people who give half a shit about the planet

 

[Smokeandsteam]

*sigh

Does anyone have a clue what this 'anti-growth coalition' actually is. ?

It’s doesn’t exist. It’s a spectre, it’s hedonic, it cannot be seen etc.

What Truss has in mind when she summons it up is the following;

Trade unions who oppose cutting workplace rights and decent contracts of empowerment
Types who want to protect the environment and generally oppose just letting developers build what they want and where they want
Wankers who think bankers get paid too much and should pay back what they took from taxpayers in 2008 before they earn a penny
Thickos who can’t understand why borrowing money to pay for tax cuts for the rich and corporations isn’t the way to deliver growth

Those who hold these types of views are charged by Truss of being opposed to growth as she believes that only an immiserised working class, the property speculator and developer, the banker and the financial elite can unlock growth.

This is the anti growth coalition in her mind.

 

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It’s germinated so fast, this stupid phrase. When the speechwriters come up with this shit do they immediately send out memos to all the news agencies and press editors?

How is it possible that this idiotic nonsense has become part of the lexicon so fast? Why was it adopted so readily?

It’s worse than any wanky work speak.

Are we now supposed to categorise everything by this metric?

 

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