Watching her conference. Jeez this is painful!
Incredibly stupid or incredibly arrogant?
Posted : 14/10/2022 3:41 pm
She is toast.
Posted : 14/10/2022 3:42 pm
Don't think she fancied sticking about after Peston's question!
Posted : 14/10/2022 3:42 pm
If it wasn't so serious it would be hilarious. No attempt to answer a single question that was asked of her.
Posted : 14/10/2022 3:44 pm
Liz I've got one answer to whatever I'm asked Truss.
She's just a passenger, she has no idea what is going on.
Posted : 14/10/2022 3:44 pm
If Truss hangs on there’ll be civil war within the tory party. If she goes the right wing will kick off and there’ll still be civil war.
There's already civil was within the Tory party, well the parliamentary party at least, do we know how the old duffers that got final say and installed dizzy Liz feel about the last few weeks? Is this what they were actually hoping for?
What's putting the shits up tory MPs is that Truss has gone and done exactly what they disliked most about Boris. i.e. happily throwing a cabinet member under the bus to save her own skin, if she's willing to sacrifice a willing puppet chancellor within her first month, then they know that none of them are safe.
There's no way she's going to call a GE, and despite the very public bickering there's no way the Tory MPs want a GE right now or another leadership race as either of those puts their seats in more immediate peril...
Really all SKS needs to do is sit back, have a few pops at PMQs and let the whole thing implode over the next year(?) or so...
Posted : 14/10/2022 3:45 pm
Not even pretending to answer questions - wouldn’t it be great if all the journos agreed to all say “there’s no point asking questions because you’re just going to read your script so can you tell us a joke instead”
“What I’ve delivered is blah blah blah”
Posted : 14/10/2022 3:45 pm
Lordy.
I'm going to need more hobnobs.
Posted : 14/10/2022 3:47 pm
Someone posted that AI robot at the select committee earlier this week, this is worse than that. Put some sunglasses on it and wheel it out the back to recycle into spares.
Just awful, but brilliant at the same time.
Totally untenable. If having to get rid of someone that you were in lockstep with 2 days ago isn't enough, claiming she's delivering on financial stability to the country is just ridiculous.
Posted : 14/10/2022 3:50 pm
I liked how Liz Truss kicked off her statement by yet again reminding everyone of her tough upbringing. I hope that her leftie mathematics professor father is thoroughly ashamed of the fact that she had such a miserable and disadvantaged childhood.
She didn't seem to like the hostile questions after her statement, despite being very careful who she picked to ask them.
FFS is it too much for a Tory prime minister not to expect a hostile question from a Daily Telegraph reporter?!
Edit : I am not a fan of Robert Peston but imo he asked the best question, and they were all pretty good....."Are you going to apologise to the Tory Party?"
Posted : 14/10/2022 3:50 pm
Less than 24hrs ago little Dougie bawbag was backing her all the way, it'll be interesting to hear what what he's mouthing off now.
Posted : 14/10/2022 3:51 pm
do we know how the old duffers that got final say and installed dizzy Liz feel about the last few weeks? Is this what they were actually hoping for?
"she's fixed immigration [by turning us into the bastard economy of Europe and putting the pound on parity with the Zimbabwean Dollar so no one wants to come here anymore]"
Posted : 14/10/2022 3:54 pm
I love how BBC news have pinned the GBP/USD exchange rate to the scrolling strip of doom at the bottom of the screen. It's already creeping down.
Posted : 14/10/2022 3:58 pm
Don’t think she fancied sticking about after Peston’s question!
Is it just me, or did anybody else get the impression she walked off because she was about to burst into tears?
I almost felt sorry for her.
Posted : 14/10/2022 4:03 pm
What was Peston's question?
Posted : 14/10/2022 4:09 pm
Is it just me, or did anybody else get the impression she walked off because she was about to burst into tears?
Yes. She was getting skewered though and must be knackered. I'm not sure why she is doing it to herself.
Posted : 14/10/2022 4:11 pm
Peston asked her to apologise to the party or something like that. May have hit a nerve.
Posted : 14/10/2022 4:12 pm
I almost felt sorry for her.
It must be awful basically spending your entire life working towards gaining a very specific job and then once you get there you find you are shit at it.
Posted : 14/10/2022 4:13 pm
I almost felt sorry for her.
The only time I started feeling prangs of compassion was when she spent ages looking intensely at all the journalists in a desperate attempt to find one she thought may ask a friendly question.
She looked like a lost child surrounded by scary strangers.
Posted : 14/10/2022 4:13 pm
What is your name?
She struggled with that
Posted : 14/10/2022 4:15 pm
Posted : 14/10/2022 4:17 pm
Incredibly stupid or incredibly arrogant?
The two are not mutually incompatible!
She'd be out of her depth in a small puddle. Unfortunately for her, she's swimming in the Pacific at the moment.
Genuine question: is the country even up for yet another GE?
Yet more wasted time on campaigns and meaningless pledges, and the alternative is not exactly shouting from the rooftops - surely Starmer and the rest of the Labour Party should be vocally and actively tearing the Government to pieces over this, it's a clear open goal?!
Posted : 14/10/2022 4:18 pm
Here we go. Even mad Dorries thinks we will have an election. 😳
https://twitter.com/SamCoatesSky/status/1580926951602393088?s=20&t=-7rSmXJLueAKQRA-sIW8Gg
Posted : 14/10/2022 4:26 pm
That was painful and embarassing - for her.
I particularly enjoyed Harry Cole's question as he's political editor at The Sun so might have been expected to go easy.
Tee hee.
Posted : 14/10/2022 4:27 pm
I'm amazed Hunt has accepted the post of chancellor. He must know its a poisoned chalice under Truss, so can only assume he's done it as he can then precipitate her resignation by resigning himself and calling for her to go. He looks very much like a trojan horse for Sunak.
Posted : 14/10/2022 4:30 pm
At least Kriss Akabusi is still backing Liz.
Posted : 14/10/2022 4:31 pm
Genuine question: is the country even up for yet another GE?
Yes and no, most people know we need a change of government, and that Truss shouldn't be left at the wheel for much longer. But the nation is utterly fatigued by a decade of exponential political bullshittery, and a GE means GE campaigning by the various parties.
Posted : 14/10/2022 4:32 pm
Is it time for 'Rejoin Now' yet?
Posted : 14/10/2022 4:32 pm
Is it time for ‘Rejoin Now’ yet?
Nah too early and you'd have to give up all the good trade deals they got 🙂
Posted : 14/10/2022 4:36 pm
Is it time for ‘Rejoin Now’ yet?
Doubt they'd have us back right now...
Posted : 14/10/2022 4:39 pm
Doubt they’d have us back right now…
This ^^.
I bet Ukraine would get priority over the UK at the moment!
The UK is little more than a group of petulant schoolkids right now who loudly and bitterly complained that the school party was shit so now they're all standing out in the cold rainy playground arguing about who's fault it was while the school gets on with life.
Posted : 14/10/2022 4:43 pm
Doubt they’d have us back right now…
Especially given the previous habit of sending failed politicians to EU posts.
Posted : 14/10/2022 4:43 pm
WTF has Kris Akabusi got to do with anything? 😆
(apart from whispering 'awooga')
Posted : 14/10/2022 4:44 pm
Wow, just seen the press conference on the Beeb.
Just unconscionable that she can carry on. I don't think I've ever seen anyone in public office so beaten and hapless
If she were a horse, a vet would be along to shoot her in the face,
Posted : 14/10/2022 4:47 pm
I notice she was wearing her "Day Collar" again...
Posted : 14/10/2022 4:47 pm
The problem is that there is hardly a single honourable and competent Tory MP left. There were some, many years ago...
Then half of them left when the Tories decided to actually try to do Brexit
Then half of the remaining ones left when they decided to go ahead with Brexit even though it was obviously going to be a farce
Then half of the remainder left each time Boris was a pillock
And each time, complete imbeciles were bought in to fill the gaps.
I think there is an open goal, and Kier Starmer keeps scoring, but nobody is actually keeping score, and there is no referee to blow the final whistle. The Tories aren't even pretending to participate in the spirit of the game any more.
Posted : 14/10/2022 4:47 pm
Is it time for ‘Rejoin Now’ yet?
Like anyone would touch UK with a bargepole at present. Back of the queue for us.
Sunlit uplands people, sunlit uplands.
Posted : 14/10/2022 4:47 pm
It must be awful basically spending your entire life working towards gaining a very specific job and then once you get there you find you are shit at it.
Don't judge these egomaniacal narcassists by your own standards. I'm sure Boris Johnson still thinks he did a marvelous job and "the herd" was wrong. Same with Truss.
Posted : 14/10/2022 4:48 pm
Is it time for ‘Rejoin Now’ yet?
Sure, just when the Labour Party have a huge advantage and seem to be winning back the vote of the Red Wall, they really need to alienate the very people whose votes cast them into the wildernesss in 2019
Posted : 14/10/2022 4:50 pm
Well that's most of the authors of that right wing libertarian Bible now gone, now Kwasi's been Unchained - one more to go.
Posted : 14/10/2022 4:53 pm
I reckon her husband pushed her to dump Kwasi!
Posted : 14/10/2022 4:54 pm
Star Trek prescient once again - the self destruct system is voice activated.
Posted : 14/10/2022 5:00 pm
It must be awful basically spending your entire life working towards gaining a very specific job and then once you get there you find you are shit at it.
Blah blah, difficult circumstances, wibble, tough decisions, blah, unpopular choices...
Whole load of excuses there for Kwasi (and for LT further down the line when she's inevitably out on her arse) to shift blame everywhere but them and the Tories. Even now, after 12 years in Government, none of the talk about growing the pie / high wage economy etc references the fact that the economy is in the shit because of 12 years of Tory rule.
Posted : 14/10/2022 5:01 pm
Here we go. Even mad Dorries thinks we will have an election. 😳
I'm not sure that's how I read it. Just that we can't be rid of Truss without one and I think I agree. With Dorries.
I need to go stand in the corner and have a long hard think about what I've done.
Posted : 14/10/2022 5:02 pm
I think there is an open goal, and Kier Starmer keeps scoring, but nobody is actually keeping score, and there is no referee to blow the final whistle. The Tories aren’t even pretending to participate in the spirit of the game any more.
I read that as “no refugee to blow the final whistle.”
Sorry, my mistake.
The one thing that makes me reluctant to vote for Starmer, is his apparent refusal to consider rejoining the EU.
Posted : 14/10/2022 5:08 pm
doris5000
Full MemberWTF has Kris Akabusi got to do with anything? 😆
(apart from whispering ‘awooga’)
that was john fashanu, akabusi's catchphrase was "alriiiight"
Posted : 14/10/2022 5:18 pm
The one thing that makes me reluctant to vote for Starmer, is his apparent refusal to consider rejoining the EU.
I'm wondering if that's just bluster to avoid alienating some of the Red (now Blue) Wall as the NE was very much in favour of Brexit originally.
Once in Government, they can begin a more open tone about at least rejoining Single Market & Customs Union. If they say that now, they'll lose all the (originally Labour) Brexit voters who turned Blue on the promise of "getting Brexit done" and potentially the Daily Wail / Express crowd who still believe Brexit to be the greatest thing ever.
Maybe.
Or maybe he's just as thick as the Tories and still terrified of being seen to be against the Will of the People.
Posted : 14/10/2022 5:19 pm
Posted : 14/10/2022 5:21 pm
Here we go. Even mad Dorries thinks we will have an election. 😳
I think Nads knows of an excellent elected candidate they should replace liz with....
Posted : 14/10/2022 5:43 pm
The one thing that makes me reluctant to vote for Starmer, is his apparent refusal to consider rejoining the EU.
Jesus. Even after all this there are still remainers willing to cut their nose off to spite their faces. If you're anything other than a rabid right wing tory then it's in your and everyone else interests to send these privately educated corrupt fraudsters to oblivion. Even moderate tories are beginning to realise this. Starmer's stance on brexit is irrelevant. There's only one game in town right now.
Posted : 14/10/2022 5:47 pm
I’m amazed Hunt has accepted the post of chancellor. He must know its a poisoned chalice under Truss, so can only assume he’s done it as he can then precipitate her resignation by resigning himself and calling for her to go. He looks very much like a trojan horse for Sunak.
Given that he was looking like the least insane option in the leadership campaign, I'm not surevwhy he's gone for it either.
I'm fairly reliably informed that Rishi's campaign team had a get together last night, and much mirth was had.
Posted : 14/10/2022 5:48 pm
