It's all falling apart alarmingly fast for Boris Johnson across the water. How long you reckon he has left as British Prime Minister? Hours surely?
How many parties are they talking about now? I've lost count.
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Johnson was just too lazy to try and do anything with the role he screwed over so many people to get. He presided over nearly 200,000 deaths from covid while he dithered and partied. He was an abject disaster.
A women who can't find her way out of a room she just walked into. That's special.
"it might be doable if she was a good public speaker"
That's a key part of it - If she had any debating ability whatsoever she could at least spar with the opposition - The House floor allows a lot of leeway for torrents of nonsense to sow confusion - Politicians have done it for years , but Truss is utterly lacking any oratory or debating skills and seems utterly incapable of reacting to the moment at all.
She is an utter disaster.
I never ever thought I'd think this but Boris is starting to look somewhat capable as a leader in retrospect
At least If he was thinking of cutting taxes for elites his plan might be called levelling up the spread of wealth/let's put some lipstick on this British pig or something and the fine print buried in the back of a dossier somewhere only the wealthy donors would be able to access in advance of implementing it.
I'm just awestruck at what I'm witnessing, if it was reported a massive spaceship hovered over new York right now and threatened to obliterate it I'd only be at the same levels of incredulity I'm experiencing watching what's going on in the UK....
I'm sure it's perfectly explainable but I just can't quite believe what I'm seeing, I keep wondering did I encounter a fork in the path I was on some years back and accidentally tumble into an alternative reality.
As to what happens next, at this stage who the **** knows, sit back strap in and enjoy the ride + hope this all encompassing omnishambles doesn't have too many negative consequences here....
I mean at this rate Truss might accidentally discover how to make nuclear fusion viable for the average income household to implement in their garden shed or turn into a crystal meth addict........
And PMQ's.
All Starmer has to do is ask any question, and then regardless of the response, ask if Truss has got that approved by Hunt in advance or does she want time to check with him first.
It will be a nightmare for the Tories. And as mentioned, it might be doable if she was a good public speaker, but she is awful. So each time she speaks she makes things worse and now, if they ever did, nobody is actually going to believe what she says.
I wonder has Truss had some form of mental or nervous breakdown? It's bizarre Jeremy Hunt seems to be acting both as Chancellor and PM.
"she still needs to speak in public, and she's just so very bad at that"
PMQ's on Wednesday is going to be interesting to say the least. She can't even roll out her "we saved people money with our energy plan, Labour only wanted to help people for six months" mantra.
If she turns up she is going to be torn apart.
The problem is that Truss has official duties such as meeting the king on a regular basis. Hunt cannot perform these duties so it will make administering this bodge even more difficult.
Imagine she actually thought she was the next Maraget Thatcher, the delusion of it she hasnt got the class or strength of Thatcher not fit to wipe her shoes none of them are. Her attempts at public speaking are also atrocious at least Boris was interesting and educational and even fun, but this bird is just pathetic I cant believe the Tory membership thought she was ace they need to be weeded out too & a few of them dragged into the 21st century !.
Yea, I'm getting that vibe too. That Truss is merely PM in name only and that Hunt has been designated as her....babysitter I guess? Babysitter PM?
I get the feeling that they knew well among themselves that a new leadership contest so soon after the previous one, in the middle of financial madness, could not be spun positively no matter what they tried. At least the previous contest had the bonus of getting rid of BoJo, but doing it again because the process delivered a feckless idiot last time can't look good.
So now they have to pretend that Truss is actually a PM while Hunt & Co. run the show. Problem is that she still needs to speak in public, and she's just so very bad at that...so it will be interesting to see how long this arrangement will even last.
The thing with Hunt is that he's the lesser of several evils. There's virtually nobody preferable IMO to be de facto leader of the party.
The UK's political model is too heavily based on conventions and etiquette. Fine when said conventions were observed but now that the Tories are showing contempt for them, they need to replaced with proper checks and balances.
How is it preferable that Truss had a mandate from her own party? We're talking about a few hundred MPs and 0.2% of the electorate here. None of this is democratic.
How can the Tories themselves survive this, never mind Truss? There is simply no democratic will for Hunt to be the defacto PM. The MP's have undertaken a coup - while we might all agree that Truss is terrible it is not acceptable that a party that has rules for you gets to be leader simply ignores them.
Hunt was rejected twice and now he gets to be in charge? Whatever about Truss not having a mandate from the public, at least she had a mandate from her own party and thus within the rules.
This is absolutely wild.
Jeremy Hunt basically on the PM role with the title of CX. Liz Truss can't surely survive this.
Tories playing the public for fools
...so absolutely nothing different there so!
I was just sharing a useful link that I agree with.
I think this guy makes the points pretty well
As a summary, we should be taxing the billionaires to reduce wealth inequality.
Allowing unlimited wealth accumulation is insane
Far more important is the fact that you will probably spend that 100e on stuff you really need which benefits the economy but the "good honest rich people who got rich from working hard and pulling themselves up by their bootstraps" will just add it to their overflowing offshore bank accounts.
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If you get 100 euros extra from the budget, but the rich get a thousand euros from the budget
Then you are worse off.
that extra 100 euros you got is just a distraction, you're falling farther and farther behind
For those who wonder why trickle down economics and the torynomics is making people miserable, this video is really useful
Its just the same old "all sides" shte we have been hearing for a while now.
Just an edgelord account that won't be around for long.
I don't think you grasp the level of tax avoidance facilitation offered by the square mile. The main trigger for the bexit referendum was when Cameron failed to get exemptions from the upcoming EU money laundering directive. Tax avoidance is the industry of London.
Truss is clearly a busted flush and going into a GE under her leadership would guarantee wipeout. They have to roll the dice again, and the fact Sunak ran and repeatedly debated against her in the leadership contest in itself enables him to paint himself as the anti-Liz in a way that might not be so easy for other hopefuls...
Just in Europe alone, Paris and Frankfurt and Geneva, and then the little places like Cyprus, Austrian banks, the German Landesbanks, Deutsche Bank which has a reputation for cleaning money etc etc
Hunt is certainly a team player though, like other members of the Cabinet, he will be considering his future options – now that Truss has resuscitated him from the political dead.
A week is a long time in politics. And it will be a long week for Liz, if she lasts that long.
Well yes it would result in more confidence from the public (and the market's) because Sunak is a lot more competent than the bumbling Thick Lizzie.
The fact that the mentally degraded old fogies (and with a good dose of old empire racism hubris indeed also at 97% white) in the conservative party membership (44% over 65) chose Thick Lizzie over him is at this point actually a further point in his favour with the general public.
Ah that's the chap being paid through his lobbying firm instead of being salaried so he can pay less tax.
No. 10 chief of staff now being accused of trying to get ministers to have clandestine meetings with members of the Russian Wagner group with the intent of changing UK foreign policy.
Letters now appear to be going in to get rid of Truss....ha absolute shambles of a party
Crispin Blunt now coming out and saying that he wants Rishi Sunak to replace Liz Truss, to restore the public's confidence in the UK government. How replacing the person that won the membership vote with the guy that lost the membership vote is going to restore confidence in the UK government is anyone's guess. The Tories have totally lost the plot and there needs to be a UK general election ASAP.
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