Liz Truss’s time is up

[Duncan2]

Haven't had this much fun for some while

 

[belboid]

Haven't had this much fun for some while

Not since boris went three months ago

 

[Tanya1982]

Not since boris went three months ago

It already feels like a lot longer. No doubt BJ would love to think it felt like it was only yesterday, but no, it feels like a very long time ago.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Hunt is the new chancellor

From the Political Editor at The Times

 

[Tanya1982]

Do we know what time the press conference is?

I guess just as soon as she's found a desperate enough idiot to take over from Kwarteng.

 

[Humberto]

Haven't had this much fun for some while

It'll likely blow over soon enough.

 

[Pickman's model]

I guess just as soon as she's found a desperate enough idiot to take over from Kwarteng.

Hunt is the new chancellor

From the Political Editor at The Times

and lo and behold she has found one

 

[Kaka Tim]

Talk about Truss being forced to resign seems to have gone up a notch. Looks like team lettuce could come away victorious.

 

[cupid_stunt]

The Times’ Steven Swinford is also reporting that Chris Philp is out as the chief secretary to the Treasury.

Philp has been replaced by Ed Argar, Swinford says

spitfire, your balloon is required.

 

[Wilf]

That must be what, 5 chancellors in the last 6 months?

 

[Pickman's model]

That must be what, 5 chancellors in the last 6 months?

who's counting?

 

[Wilf]

That must be what, 5 chancellors in the last 6 months?

Yep, 5 since Feb 13th (8 months).

 

[contadino]

Sterling's still slipping against the dollar. Maybe somewhere in the darkness that's Truss's mind, there's a flicker of light suggesting that "It's me, not you"?

I doubt it though. I suspect that'll maybe emerge when Brady's shaking her by the shoulders like a rag doll, screaming at her to fuck off.

 

[Lurdan]

 

[ska invita]

Some members of a Norwegian choir ( yeh ) quizzed me the other week on what the FUCK is going on in the UK. They follow Uk stuff very closely and think we are in some self inflicted terminal death spiral

The view from abroad is pretty agreed on that I think....especially in europe...even my friend in Istanbul (where Turkey is increasingly sinking into the mud, 83% inflation) takes pity when we chat on the phone.

I really think this state we are in is all the outcome of two key things: the support of Brexit, or more accurately cheerleading Nigel Farage on to successfully dominate UK politics for the last however many years, in combination with the establishment attack on Corbyn and the squashing and slandering of a popular social democratic alternative. This is now totally the political world made in those power brokers image.

 

[ruffneck23]

Talk about Truss being forced to resign seems to have gone up a notch. Looks like team lettuce could come away victorious.

I just discovered the live stream

 

[cupid_stunt]

This is off the bullshit scale.

 

[hegley]

Do we know what time the press conference is?

2.30pm

 

[littlebabyjesus]

They've done nothing wrong. All his decisions were right, brave, necessary, etc. So why's he been sacked exactly?

Is she going to last the day???

 

[two sheds]

Errm from his letter he was sacked wasn't he? From her letter he resigned.

 

[spitfire]

The Times’ Steven Swinford is also reporting that Chris Philp is out as the chief secretary to the Treasury.

Philp has been replaced by Ed Argar, Swinford says

spitfire, your balloon is required.

was he a minister though? I only do ministers.

 

[Lord Camomile]

Jeremy fucking Hunt, rises from the ashy swamp

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Errm from his letter he was sacked wasn't he? From her letter he resigned.

That's also his letter, though, according to the name at the bottom. So he wrote to himself to accept his decision to sack himself.

Can one sack oneself?

 

[cupid_stunt]

Errm from his letter he was sacked wasn't he? From her letter he resigned.

'Resign or be sacked' tends to blur the line TBF.

 

[cupid_stunt]

was he a minister though? I only do ministers.

Junior Minister.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Errm from his letter he was sacked wasn't he? From her letter he resigned.

He was 'asked to resign' it seems.

So sacked but in a way she can claim resigned when it suits her.

 

[spitfire]

Junior Minister.

He gets a smol one then.

 

[ruffneck23]

This is off the bullshit scale.

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Look who it's signed by (not the signature though)

 

[two sheds]

Is that Kamikwazi letter real then? Or perhaps the tories do what scientology did (does?) get people to write their resignation letters as soon as they take up a job so there are no inconveniences. Even they though don't have them to/from themselves.

 

[elbows]

This is off the bullshit scale.

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Maybe 'you have put the national interest rates first' would have been a more appropriate choice of words.