Liz Truss’s time is up

[cesare]

Do you think so? He thought recruitment might be difficult.

That was 1976 though, back when the Tories occupied the space that Labour does now.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

And I think we're all officially old.

 

[Petcha]

This is the bind for the Tories. Stick with Truss and face possible disaster or change again and, well, face possible disaster. I don't think the tories changing leader twice during a five-year term is a recipe for electoral success.

Well, no, of course the election's gone. But it would be nice if they were utterly trounced. Where was Sunak during the conference btw?

 

[brogdale]

The little white line annotations on these BoE graphs has made me chuckle; they're clearly laying blame.

 

[killer b]

And I think we're all officially old.

I've never actually watched Reggie Perrin, I only know that speech from it being shared loads on the internet

 

[Tanya1982]

i blame journalists, they parrot this stuff
the fact that Levelling Up is talked about with a straight face shows how cretinous the whole thing is

My personal bugbear is 'double down'. Everyone these days is 'doubling down' on almost everything. It drives me to despair. My 68 year old mother and my 15 year old son have both used it in conversation with me, and have had to be told never to do so again.

 

[Louis MacNeice]

My personal bugbear is 'double down'. Everyone these days is 'doubling down' on almost everything. It drives me to despair. My 68 year old mother and my 15 year old son have both used it in conversation with me, and have had to be told never to do so again.

I hope you have said it several times, each one a little more stridently.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I've never actually watched Reggie Perrin, I only know that speech from it being shared loads on the internet

Young people. * shakes head *

 

[Tanya1982]

I hope you have said it several times, each one a little more stridently.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

I don't generally increase 'stridency' in desperation. Taking a consistent and firm approach from the start is best. Neither have used it since.

 

[ska invita]

My personal bugbear is 'double down'. Everyone these days is 'doubling down' on almost everything. It drives me to despair. My 68 year old mother and my 15 year old son have both used it in conversation with me, and have had to be told never to do so again.

Its a real 'thing' to be fair - says a lot about our times. Levelling Up doesnt actually happen - Doubling Down does

 

[8ball]

Its a real 'thing' to be fair - says a lot about our times. Levelling Up doesnt actually happen - Doubling Down does

Usually before a u-turn.

 

[8ball]

I don't generally increase 'stridency' in desperation. Taking a consistent and firm approach from the start is best. Neither have used it since.

And keep your head down too. Just in case a point is flying past.

 

[izz]

Forces of anarchy: wreckers of law and order. Communists, Maoists, Trotskyists, neo-Trotskyists, crypto-Trotskyists, union leaders, Communist union leaders, atheists, agnostics, long-haired weirdos, short-haired weirdos, vandals, hooligans, football supporters, namby-pamby probation officers, rapists, papists, papist rapists, foreign surgeons, headshrinkers – who ought to be locked up, Wedgwood Benn, keg bitter, punk rock, glue-sniffers, Play For Today, squatters, Clive Jenkins, Roy Jenkins, Up Jenkins, up everybody’s. Chinese restaurants.

Almost all of these I quite like really

 

[Tanya1982]

Its a real 'thing' to be fair - says a lot about our times. Levelling Up doesnt actually happen - Doubling Down does

And keep your head down too. Just in case a point is flying past.

Not under my roof it doesn't. We may stand firm, or reinforce our feelings, or emphasise our previous words, or any number of things, but we don't 'double down' because this is not an American cable news studio.

Highly doubtful a point I needed to grasp would fly past my head.

 

[8ball]

Highly doubtful a point I needed to grasp would fly past my head.

Up to you whether you feel the need to grasp any.

 

[Pickman's model]

Forces of anarchy: wreckers of law and order. Communists, Maoists, Trotskyists, neo-Trotskyists, crypto-Trotskyists, union leaders, Communist union leaders, atheists, agnostics, long-haired weirdos, short-haired weirdos, vandals, hooligans, football supporters, namby-pamby probation officers, rapists, papists, papist rapists, foreign surgeons, headshrinkers – who ought to be locked up, Wedgwood Benn, keg bitter, punk rock, glue-sniffers, Play For Today, squatters, Clive Jenkins, Roy Jenkins, Up Jenkins, up everybody’s. Chinese restaurants.

Trendy lefty do-gooders

 

[two sheds]

The increasing use of "literally" is annoying where it's redundant, too, as in "I looked down, and it was literally a dog". As if it's going to be metaphorically a dog

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

Danny La Rouge made a thread for this yesterday guys

 

[cupid_stunt]

Danny La Rouge made a thread for this yesterday guys

Do you mean, literally yesterday?

 

[Tanya1982]

Do you mean, literally yesterday?

No, like literally like yesterday. Anyway...

She's now gone to Prague on a piss up, which she'll probably screw up somehow while doubling down on something or other.

 

[Chilli.s]

So where do I sign up for the Anti Growth Coalition? it sounds like the most sensible idea Truss has had. Iv not been following that closely mind

 

[elbows]

I've never actually watched Reggie Perrin, I only know that speech from it being shared loads on the internet

I didn't get where I am today by listening to people who havent actually watched Reggie Perrin.

 

[Serge Forward]

So where do I sign up for the Anti Growth Coalition? it sounds like the most sensible idea Truss has had. Iv not been following that closely mind

 

[brogdale]

Gotta be some scope for confusion between the AGC and the ACG

 

[Raheem]

Presumably only available in children's sizes.

 

[cuppa tee]

an interesting take from a contemporary at oxford...

'I went to Oxford with Liz Truss - now she's PM and I'm a sex worker'

A sex worker and dominatrix who went to university with Prime Minister Liz Truss reflects on how their lives took very different paths.

www.kentonline.co.uk

 

[Artaxerxes]

an interesting take from a contemporary at oxford...

'I went to Oxford with Liz Truss - now she's PM and I'm a sex worker'

A sex worker and dominatrix who went to university with Prime Minister Liz Truss reflects on how their lives took very different paths.

www.kentonline.co.uk

One fucks people over the other one at least asks first

 

[JimW]

When her supporters complain about the antis we can call it a growth whore moan. I thang yew.

 

[cuppa tee]

One fucks people over the other one at least asks first

i have not used her service but i imagine her clients do the asking..

 

[Artaxerxes]

i have not used her service but i imagine her clients do the asking..

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