David Cameron tweeted something the other day about how it was 20 years since he'd been elected Tory leader, what an honour to lead the party etc.
He got absolutely taken to pieces in the replies.
Liz Truss is just (one of) the products of his total incompetence and stupidity. A conveyor belt of ever increasing stupidity.
Is Liz Truss now less a person and more an abstract performance art piece?
Fair play to her. Her total lack of self-awareness and desperate appeal to the Trump MAGA lot is absolutely hilarious. Poor old Lizzie. Even Russel Brand has managed to make it big with those morons. That must sting
On the issue of "total lack of self-awareness"......
Asked who they would trust with the economy, a YouGov poll showed 10 per cent of people said Labour – fewer than those who said they would trust Ms Truss, who presided over a shambolic tenure of the economy as prime minister.
That must bring Liz Truss a little bit of comfort and reduce the sting.
You're absolutely obsessed Ernie.
With what, politics? Yeah I guess. Not so much with Liz Truss who was PM for just 45 days three years ago though, unlike apparently some.
But I thought the above article might be of interest to those who believe that Liz Truss remains topical and feel it is still important to mock her and the damage she did to the Tories.
I don't think that The Independent are obsessed with Liz Truss btw, but they obviously believe that her shambolic premiership gives some sort of context to the situation today
Liz Truss will soon be forgotten, except as a pub quiz question.
But not yet on STW where her 3 year thread is still live! Contrast that with the Rishi Sunak thread, Sunak was PM for 20 months compared to Truss's 45 days and yet he seems to have been forgotten, certainly his thread is no longer live.
I think the obsession with Liz Truss is that in her short term as PM her economic policies dramatically turned voters away from the Tories.
So it is probably worth pointing out voters are now even more put off by the current PM's economic policies than they were with Truss's, as the Independent article points out.
Sunak is keeping his head down.
The irony of you keeping a thread on Truss busy, and then complaining about it. 😴
I'm not complaining at all !! 🤣 Far from it!
I am pointing out the hypocrisy of centrists not wanting to say anything at all about the current UK Prime Minister but having so much to say about someone who was PM for 45 days 3 years ago!
Now that's what I call "irony"!
Personally as long as the centrists want to bang on about someone who was Prime Minister years ago in a desperate attempt to divert attention away from the clown who is currently PM then I am more than happy to remind them that SKS has made the Labour government as unpopular as Liz Truss made the Tory government 🤗
The double-post gremlin thingy
You're absolutely obsessed Ernie.
Or, like me, disappointed that the new dawn promised has not materialised and the lurching ever rightwards continues in a vain attempt to woo some racists away from 'Bin Juice'.
I am pointing out the hypocrisy of centrists not wanting to say anything at all about the current UK Prime Minister but having so much to say about someone who was PM for 45 days 3 years ago!
Let's dissect this... lots of people have lots to say about the current UK Prime Minister. But why would they come to a thread about a previous PM to do so? Makes no sense to a normal person. And they'd be much more involvement in the Keir!Starmer! thread if... well, it's obvious why few people bother engaging there. I can only assume you want to deter such chat. As for "centrists", they do moan about the current PM, many never voted Labour, others held their nose and voted Labour to keep the Tories out... but importantly... if you think everyone to the right of Sultana is a centrist and a hypocrite, and then keep banging on in that fashion, then actual discussion rather than loaded repetitive slanging matches are rarely going to happen.
If you don't think we should talk about Truss, why not stop posting in this thread? Stop keeping it live. Well, after you've done your obligatory "must have the last word" post that is.
This Liz Truss thread keeps going because so does she, in her increasingly tragic, embarrassing and desperate need for attention. It’s frankly hilarious!
Simple as that.
at least hes not turning every thread into a gaza one I guess
I'm not sure that Liz Truss is demented. Soon after she was defenestrated I remember reading (probably in Private Eye) that her backers had made it quite clear that if she was going to continue to receive funding then they would not countenance her admitting that her neoliberal libertarian policies were an economic failure.
Essentially she's being paid a lot of money to continue humiliating herself so that they can keep the faithful low information voters on side.
“Former UK PM” has a lot of pulling power overseas, so there’s plenty of fees to collect telling a simple story that chimes well with the, er, concerns of a certain USA audience. A lot of her more ‘demented’ sounding utterances since leaving office have actually been smartly and perfectly pitched for that non-UK audience (with some hope on her/their part that the UK can be moved that way in the coming years as well, making her relevant again here… but I imagine that’s probably a secondary concern).
If you don't think we should talk about Truss, why not stop posting in this thread?
Blimey, I thought that I had made it very clear that I do want to talk about Truss!
Yes for 45 days three years ago she was a terrible prime minister who did terrible damage to the Tory from which they have yet to recover, let's never forget that!
I am simply pointing out that this should not be used as a distraction from the fact that today, right now, what Truss did to the Tories SKS is doing to Labour, only no opinion polls showed the Tories behind the Greens when Truss was PM!
And I am obviously not the only one who wants to make a comparison between Liz Truss and SKS, both prime ministers, both deeply unpopular with voters, The Independent newspaper obviously believes it is a fair comparison with their "Labour now less trusted on the economy than Liz Truss" headline.
Liz Truss's single greatest claim to fame is the damage she did to the Tories, which is why she only lasted 45 days, so let's all laugh and remember that. But let's also be aware that SKS's premiership appears to be damaging Labour even more.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
And they'd be much more involvement in the Keir!Starmer! thread if... well, it's obvious why few people bother engaging there. I can only assume you want to deter such chat.
Oh how predictable! 😂
The reason that binners for example has so much to say about about the person who was prime minister three years ago but absolutely nothing at all to say about the current prime minister is because he doesn't bother to engage with Lefties. Do you write this sort of stuff with a straight face?
I am simply pointing out that this should not be used as a distraction…
In a thread about Liz Truss? It’s not the distraction.
Absolutely it is. Binners for example wants the political discussions on stw to focus on the laughable antics of someone who was prime minister for a few days 3 years ago rather than discuss current politics and the current prime minister who is frankly an embarrassment to him.
“Former UK PM” has a lot of pulling power overseas, so there’s plenty of fees to collect telling a simple story that chimes well with the, er, concerns of a certain USA audience. A lot of her more ‘demented’ sounding utterances since leaving office have actually been smartly and perfectly pitched for that non-UK audience...
This isn't true. Truss isn't well-received by the US right. She flopped at CPAC twice. Anyone that continues to donate to her should be examined for traumatic brain injury in the past.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/02/22/truss-at-cpac-00142807
Fair enough. She got a lot of media appearances based around her CPAC trips though, I guess she did okay money wise, and kept the messages out there that her sponsors want out there.
Absolutely it is. Binners for example wants the political discussions on stw to focus on the laughable antics of someone who was prime minister for a few days 3 years ago
There's one thread on STW concerning Miss Truss that is easily ignored, and only pops back info 'focus' when she does something worth laughing about.
You, however manage to shoehorn your distain for Keir Starmer into every single bloody thread that's not about bike tyres.
I for one wish you'd just **** off and take your tedious **** with you. (Sorry about that mods, he doesn't seem to be taking any less subtle hints).
For some reason I can't get the Report Post function to work, but I'm pretty sure baiting binners about Starmer on the Liz Truss thread deserves some time on the naughty step.
I for one wish you'd just * off and take your tedious * with you. (Sorry about that mods, he doesn't seem to be taking any less subtle hints).
I will continue to mention the person who holds the highest political office in the UK on political threads. I do appreciate that some people would much rather that I didn't**, after all he is both deeply unpopular with voters and frankly an embarrassment to his supporters.
But the comparison that The Independent newspaper made in their headline "Labour now less trusted on the economy than Liz Truss" is perfectly valid, especially if we are to focus on what a disaster she was and still is, which seems to be the main area of focus.
Obviously if you are a Labour Party you probably don't want to hear it but I am not a Labour Party nor is apparently about 80% of the electorate. My understanding is that claiming to own a MBT is all that is expected on STW, not to be uncritical of the Labour Party on political threads.
pretty sure baiting binners .....
That's quite something, yesterday nickc was claiming that binners was deliberately baiting me! I think that binners attempts to bait lefties on STW is the stuff of legends but well done for being concerned about his possibly bruised ego.
Edit : ** you could always choose not to read what I post, a simple and easy solution. That's what I tend to do rather than tell people to stop.
That's quite something, yesterday nickc was claiming that binners was deliberately baiting me! I think that binners attempts to bait lefties on STW is the stuff of legends but well done for being concerned about his possibly bruised ego.
Then I think you should both be banned. **** it, doesn't matter who is baiting who, it's against the forum rules and spoils decent threads for the rest of us.
Getting back on topic
Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss, a conservative free speech advocate, told Fox News ......
"We have been, frankly, importing jihadis, and that is dangerous," Truss said.
Ernesto… it would appear I’ve just moved in to the flat next to Keir Starmer in your head. It’s brilliant…. rent free.
See you at 3am comrade
Nah mate, my interest in Sir Keir Starmer on political threads is for exactly the same reason as the media's interest in him. He makes more headlines than any other UK politician not because he is living rent free in any journalists head but because he is the UK Prime Minister, and right now.
There is nothing weird about the media's "obsession" with SKS. What is weird though is some people treating him as some sort of taboo subject when discussing UK politics.
And I am afraid you exaggerate your importance to the lefties that live rent free in your head binners, you just amuse me! And your above post is the perfect example, after creating a song and dance about me mentioning Starmer on the Liz Truss thread you then decide to go back to mentioning Starmer after I post something uniquely about Liz Truss, you completely ignore my link to what Liz Truss said to Fox News! 😅
So anything to say about Liz Truss, the free speech advocate, claiming that the UK is "importing jihadis", or do you want to just talk about me and Starmer?
The problem is not with left or right as they are more options than fact.
Intolerance however is so the real problem. Intolerant of people with a different view to yours, from a different country, different accent, different colour skin, different side of the town, different school the list goes on, we are all human and have different opinions accept that and play nicely.
It’s bloody tedious listening to people who state their opinion as if it is fact, ok some are backed by stats but they can be skewed to make a point….
Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss, a conservative free speech advocate, told Fox News ......
"We have been, frankly, importing jihadis, and that is dangerous," Truss said.
I’m guessing that the silly mare is deliberately misconstruing what sharia law actually means, for the sake of stirring up the far-Right neo-fascists who she’s hoping will become her power base.
Otherwise she’s even more stupid and ignorant than I’d ever imagined.
Or maybe both.
She’s a grifter and a useful idiot. She’s clearly courting the MAGA loons, hence the appearance on Fox News. In her head she sees herself on the gravy train that exists in Trumps wake. In reality I doubt anyone even knows who she is.
Her increasingly desperate attempts to appear relevant are just tragic. She’ll say and do pretty much anything if she spies a payday or a chance to be on telly
after all he is both deeply unpopular with voters
According to a right biased media whose output is making sure that polling is influenced to show that the current government is unpopular. It's an indictment of how easily swayed is the average UK voter, due to a lack of critical thinking.
Where do you even start with unpicking that tinfoil-helmeted nonsense?
Deep state? Labour Illuminati?
NURSE! She’s out of bed again!!
Where do you even start with unpicking that tinfoil-helmeted nonsense?
I think its an offer to the Labour MPs to step in and save them. All they need is one for a decent majority to stand down and allow her to run and then she can overthrow Starmer. That or lost the byelection to a lettuce.
“NB there is no Labour Liz Truss”.
I’m sure they’re perennially thankful for that fact!
She really has gone full MAGA hasn't she?
She really has gone full MAGA hasn't she?
It's the completely vacant look she has, she's one of those few people who really sums up "the lights are on but no-one is home".
You get it sometimes with the MAGA lot when they're asked a simple question and in amongst the bullshit answers that they parrot out there's the sound of whirring cogs if they're required to do something approaching critical thinking.
But with her, there are no cogs.
Apart from the deep state shit I think she is probably right. Rayner comes in and is disliked, Streeting comes in as safe last minute option and Labour get wiped out.
Apart from the deep state shit I think she is probably right. Rayner comes in and is disliked, Streeting comes in as safe last minute option and Labour get wiped out.
Which for all his many, massive failings, I think Labour's only chance to avoid becoming another failed party* like Tories were (under Truss, for some if it) is to back Starmer if he moves back to the left without McSweeney pulling the strings to the right.
*I'm not saying that would be a bad thing, but a split centre/left vote risks a right wing givernment.
https://www.thepoke.com/2026/02/16/truss-says-trump-right-about-everything/
The lettuce has been to meet the Trump! And The Poke has absolutely gone to town on it. As has The Guardian
The one thing we can hope for I suppose is that two days after the Queen met her, she was dead. So maybe she'll have the same effect on Trump.
Am I the only one that automatically clicks on the Truss thread within a microsecond of seeing it return to the front page to see what madness she's currently upto?😁
Bet Donald immediately sacked the head of that days Security detail.
Is that the Slug and Lettuce?
(I've been thinking that one up for 10 mins, proud of myself 😆 ) EDIT: and in such a rush to post it up, i missed the OP beat me to it... Dammit.
Does she have kids?, or have they broken off all contact with her?.
Imagine saying to folk…”that’s my mum”….youd get the utter piss ripped out of you
Two teenage girls apparently.
I do wonder how the kids of famous people (famous for all the wrong reasons) cope. Jimmy Savile's nephew was apparently quite proud of the connection right up until the point where I imagine it became a serious threat to his personal safety - you'd probably regret the times you said "oh, that's my uncle!" or in the case of Liz Truss' kids "my Mum is the Prime Minister!"
Imagine young Sextus Rees-Mogg going to school. Poor kid (on numerous levels; the name, the parenthood...)
Funny you should mention Jimmy Saville. After years of trying to ingratiate herself with the MAGA lot with her unhinged rambling, she finally gets her longed-for Jim’ll Fix It moment with Trump. I hope the old groper had the decency to goose her
pretty sure that one of her kids is the illegitimate child of Mark Field* former tory MP who she worked for- when she was selected as an MP candidate, there was a bit of a kerfuffle at the Norfolk conservative association because shed been telling people she was pregnant with his child but still got selected
* his other claim to fame was violently grabbing a woman by the throat who mildly disrupted a Mansion House dinner
pretty sure that one of her kids is the illegitimate child of Mark Field* former tory MP who she worked for- when she was selected as an MP candidate,
It's well known that she had an affair with Kwasi Kwarteng.
Tories: f***ing each other and the economy!
See Liz Truss? That's your mum, that is.
Hats off to whichever genius on social meedya captioned this ‘ The Slug and Lettuce’ 😂
Its insane to think that this woman was PM (however briefly)
shes gone full tinfoil hat for cash
https://bsky.app/profile/sundersays.bsky.social/post/3mh7kpbcaw22u
I'm here for the giggles as always when this thread pops up!
Yeah, she's fully fine of the deep end now.