Liz Truss’s time is up

[Duncan2]

Personal I don't think she will go anytime soon. But it will be hilarious if the Leadership contest lasted longer than her stint as PM.

Its already hilarious

 

[Calamity1971]

 

[elbows]

Isn’t the usual thing to allow MPs to spend a weekend ‘taking soundings in their constituency’? That way they can claim the decision is based on feedback from members. Which it rarely is.

So Monday could be a thing.

In this case 'sounding out the markets' will also be a thing.

Given her ideology it is so very fitting that the invisible hand of the marketplace has given her the finger.

 

[Kaka Tim]

are they're any mp's arguing that she should stay?

 

[LDC]

OMG just watched the press conference. Car crash. One of my stroke patients today would have given a better and more convincing speech.

 

[Duncan2]

not on the airwaves i think

 

[elbows]

OMG just watched the press conference. Car crash. One of stroke patients today would have given a better and more convincing speech.

Yeah its hard to see how she could survive after that. And as if the press were not already against her enough, only letting 4 of them ask a question further adds to her woe.

 

[Bingoman]

are they're any mp's arguing that she should stay?

There a few not many

 

[Calamity1971]

are they're any mp's arguing that she should stay?

Douglas Ross.

 

[Raheem]

are they're any mp's arguing that she should stay?

There was one on the phone radio saying she was awful crap and he's dreadfully disappointed and she absolutely should stay. Think it might have been Chope.

 

[JimW]

are they're any mp's arguing that she should stay?

Labour front bench?

 

[Kaka Tim]

There was one on the phone radio saying she was awful crap and he's dreadfully disappointed and she absolutely should stay. Think it might have been Chope.

the political equivalent of jimmy Saville tweeting his support.

 

[Rob Ray]

Yeah its hard to see how she could survive after that. And as if the press were not already against her enough, only letting 4 of them ask a question further adds to her woe.

Letting them ask a question is probably too much credit, it's not like her "answers" were in the same ballpark as what was being asked. The journalists might as well have been asking an empty podium.

 

[Raheem]

Letting them ask a question is probably too much credit, it's not like her "answers" were in the same ballpark as what was being asked. The journalists might as well have been asking an empty podium.

If I'd been the last one, my question would have been "Can you say that thing about economic discipline again?"

 

[DaveCinzano]

"If you had to make the hard choice - big fish, little fish, or cardboard box?"

 

[SysOut]

now we are officially a banana republic, when does the military take over ?

A banana republic is a country which is de facto owned by a corporation, e.g. United Fruit and Guatamala:

The integrity of John Foster Dulles' "anti-Communist" motives has been disputed, since Dulles and his law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell negotiated the land giveaways to the United Fruit Company in Guatemala and Honduras. John Foster Dulles' brother, Allen Dulles, who was head of the CIA under Eisenhower, also did legal work for United Fruit. The Dulles brothers and Sullivan & Cromwell were on the United Fruit payroll for thirty-eight years. Recent research has uncovered the names of multiple other government officials who received benefits from United Fruit:

John Foster Dulles, who represented United Fruit while he was a law partner at Sullivan & Cromwell – he negotiated that crucial United Fruit deal with Guatemalan officials in the 1930s – was Secretary of State under Eisenhower; his brother Allen, who did legal work for the company and sat on its board of directors, was head of the CIA under Eisenhower; Henry Cabot Lodge, who was America's ambassador to the UN, was a large owner of United Fruit stock; Ed Whitman, the United Fruit PR man, was married to Ann Whitman, Dwight Eisenhower's personal secretary. You could not see these connections until you could – and then you could not stop seeing them.

United Fruit Company - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

There's a lot to be learnt there - not least the the jokes about "EU" banana laws ( laws proposed by Major & Chirac to help ex-colonies to have plantations independent of the U.S.banana companies) spread by the U.S.A. owned Murdoch papers such as the Sun...

The commonly held idea that Banana Republics are corrupt and unstable is a result of the CIA making them like that. They simply changed uncooperative leaders by coup d'états, corruption assuring a whole queue of willing successors and malleable armed forces and police.

You could not see these connections until you could – and then you could not stop seeing them.

check out eastern europe as well

 

[Calamity1971]

 

[ruffneck23]

Such a tease.

 

[goldenecitrone]

I genuinely don't understand how someone can be this shit.

Just when you thought she'd reached her lowest point, she finds new subterranean levels of incompetence, ineffectiveness and imbecility.

 

[WhyLikeThis]

 

[Pickman's model]

So Cameron lasted longer than May who lasted longer than Johnson, who will have lasted longer than truss. Is this what they mean by accelerationism, that political leaders arrive and depart at an increasing speed?

 

[Callum91]

So Cameron lasted longer than May who lasted longer than Johnson, who will have lasted longer than truss. Is this what they mean by accelerationism, that political leaders arrive and depart at an increasing speed?

Won't be long and the next PM will resign before appointment. It's the Thick of It.

 

[Pickman's model]

it's very hard for her to regain what she never had

 

[Pickman's model]

Won't be long and the next PM will resign before appointment. It's the Thick of It.

that was whitehall business as usual compared to truss's time

 

[SysOut]

The Tories could avoid an election by making Starmer PM of a Tory government.
Ramsay Macdonald:

From 1931 to 1935, he headed a National Government dominated by the Conservative Party and supported by only a few Labour members.

 

[Wilf]

are they're any mp's arguing that she should stay?

197 I think. All Labour.

 

[Wilf]

I think what's different to previous dying administrations is that whilst there will be plenty who don't want to trigger another leadership contest, just about none of them will be actively thinking she should stay. Just about the only reason for not kicking her out is that she's actually in post. It could equally be a tube of verruca cream.

 

[DaveCinzano]

 

[Pickman's model]

I think what's different to previous dying administrations is that whilst there will be plenty who don't want to trigger another leadership contest, just about none of them will be actively thinking she should stay. Just about the only reason for not kicking her out is that she's actually in post. It could equally be a tube of verruca cream.

either they stab her now or they stick with her till the election.

 

[brogdale]

Who are these 8%?