Why would she be tempted to do this?
Tory Leadership contest 2022
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Starry Wisdom
compared to la Truss iain Duncan Smith seems a positive genius
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
It is a day with a Y and Twitter says the government with 2 years left and an 80 seat majority will call an election.
I'll believe it when it happens and not before.
pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
she might hope to get an initial bounce in the polls...she can be optimistic about how much cutting corpoarate taxes and taxes for the rich will help the poor find shillings to stick in the gas meter this winter... the economic outlook for the UK for the next 18 months is horrible...and her stock in trade is alienating the relationship with the EU...which will make things even worse.
I´m glad I´m well away from it all, to be honest.
pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
I agree, but it´s possible.
I think 2024 would be best for Labour...if the EU is recovering significantly faster than the UK, then looking at a Norway type arrangment with the EU might start looking palatable to 60% of the population. Starmer´s current attempt to be pragmatic about this is uncomfortable....time wil tell if a pivot seems like it´s going to be a goer.
pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
anyway, I have more important elections to worry about with Bolsonaro vs Lula in October. I need to have bags packed in case there is a military coup.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
This makes sense in theory, but I fear Liz Truss represents a new low for stupidity. I don't think she knows what she's going to say from one sentence to the next, and I'm not sure you can predict the actions of a person like that based on real information from the real world. Same reason you can't predict a pigeon's next chess move.
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Starry Wisdom
Pigeons very predictable at backgammon tho
kabbes
First intersubjective, then internalised
Rook takes prawn.
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But seriously I think she could embroil us in all manner of conflicts cold and possibly hot. She thinks she's thatcher but she's not got any of thatcher's actual nous, like the way thatcher kept people from other wings of the party in the cabinet, the notorious wets. She wouldn't do the planning for something like the miners strike. I doubt she'll raise cop pay, tho that was an early move of thatcher's. Margaret thatcher at least had a brain on her shoulders. David willetts was known as two brains. Truss will be known as no brain. And remarkably stupid people are far more dangerous when elevated to positions of power as they're not intelligent enough to seek advice
not-bono-ever
meh
I commented on here years ago that truss came across as a rather confused and unhappy cult member and publicly called for her to jump ship for the sake of her own sanity. She’s beyond hope now - it’s all downhill from here Liz. You poltroon
JimW
支那暗杀团
Is it not Private Eye? They used to have a column of that name.
Karl Masks
Birds Angel Delight
I'm not sure I'd believe it even then
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
not-bono-ever
meh
Wits going to be like Jonestown in the truss cabinet.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
The only person currently looking smart is Raab, who has apparently clocked that Truss will be a catastrophe and is positioning himself for the next go round instead.
And if Dominic Raab is the smartest person in the room...
And if Dominic Raab is the smartest person in the room...
as it happens there's a tweet from the Secret Tory account mocking the PE for complaining about being ripped of by the PNG courier (although this could also be a mock up, who knows?)
JimW
支那暗杀团
The plot thickens, but still not as thick as... etc etc
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Truss won't entertain an election this year, far too worried about the cost of living stuff. Same time, she'll be astonishingly grateful that kieth has managed to get Labour's leads down to mid single figures. With Labour unable to launch a coherent sentence or establish any kind of identity, she might see an opportunity any time Spring onwards. Suspect she won't and that things will be so grim that even Labour won't be able to avoid staying in the lead. Anyway, my point is that Labour's shitness means it will be a decision largely in her own hands.
Raheem
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Every day he's on the TV, the front pages of newspapers, and thousands of Twitter threads.
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Starry Wisdom
He should be down the Mariana trench because I'm sure deep down he's a good person
WhyLikeThis
Something, something, something
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
Dystopiary
All this aristocracy has really got to stop.
"I've had my life, I won't live to see the worst of it, why should I care about the people who will?" Twat.The old guy with the shades on thinks he's Peter Hitchens
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Dystopiary
All this aristocracy has really got to stop.
Made up. No way do Liz Truss supporters give one shit about "the most vulnerable."
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
I hope he's got grandchildren who make it their mission to give him shit whenever the chance arises.
Dystopiary
All this aristocracy has really got to stop.
Same. Or great nieces/nephews or niblings as the late billriver used to say.
He really needs someone to pull him up on that. That's the epitome of the "I'm alright Jack" boomer, the type who hypocritally complain about benefit claimants and immigrants as projection for their own selfishness.
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