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TBH we've been rather spoilt for choice the last few years.....
They love a good conspiracy theory so I’m sure her blaming of everyone else but herself in her ‘anti-growth coalition’ twoddle is also something they agree with
The anti-growth coalition has now been renamed 'the global left', and includes well known raging communists such as Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt, the entire civil service, and probably the King himself.
She's just the IEA's useful idiot, grifting for the Tufton St thinktankers and RW US billionaires behind them. They are still not done trying to milk the UK, so they are just using her to keep their daft ideas in the news. And the Torygraph and Daily Heil are complicit putting her on the front pages.And who the F are the Institute for Government giving her a platform
She is so delusional that she thinks she is an intellectual, but hopefully enough of the the wider world realise she is washed up. My wife has LBC on in the background during the day, and the consensus seems to be she should F off and disappear.
She is so delusional that she thinks she is an intellectual,
She is absolute peak Dunning-Kruger material. Thick as mince but convinced she is some kind of hard-done-by genius.
Mrs Zip is listening to the Rory Stewart book. The bit on Liz Truss is frightening.
A complete ****ing idiot.
The passages in the Rory Stewart book are illuminating!
Listening to it as well.
John Crace on the money about ‘Radon Liz’
https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1703822867207467013?s=46&t=1lK7Dw1b6RqGJyvufO-trQ
She really is the unflushable turd.
Channel 4 news we’re saying that today was an attempt to re-ingratiate herself with the far right headbangers in the Tory party who will no doubt seize full control once they get shut of Rishi after they lose the general election.
You’d like to think she was a bit too mental even for them, but then just look at them
The bit where Stewart first meets Truss in her role as boss (DEFRA minister) is actually part of the free sample of the audiobook in his podcast feed this week. It's very funny (if you can avoid weeping).
https://spotify.link/qKhbH6KzcDb
It's on The Rest Is Politics podcast too.
I think it was David Davis on the News Agents a few weeks after she went, when asked if she'd just got absolutely everything wrong demurred and suggested it just wasn't handled very well and fundamentally the concepts were sound. These ideas are far from dead in their tracks.
Truss and her mate Kwazi still owe me £5k from my pension and I'm sure billions to others in this country. Why is she not in jail? Okay, an over simplification , but if some other person/body did the same to the UK's economy there would be calls for some kind of justice.
Are the 2 perpetrators members of the FSA? Can we get them struck off?
These ideas are far from dead in their tracks
Im sure there are some well funded think tanks debating over how they get these ideas back in the driving seat & popular with the mainstream- if they think Truss is person to do that though, then theyre really not the smartest bunch
Im sure there are some well funded think tanks debating over how they get these ideas back in the driving seat & popular with the mainstream
Sending out Liz to say 'It's all still the right policies, I just f***** it all up' is the first stage in that. She's clearly done a lot of damage and the billionaires have told her it's her mess and her job to clear it up.
kimbers
Full MemberIm sure there are some well funded think tanks debating over how they get these ideas back in the driving seat & popular with the mainstream- if they think Truss is person to do that though, then theyre really not the smartest bunch
I think given the options they have open in the short term they're just making her a scapegoat- keep encouraging her and telling her how right she is, keep sending her out, keep letting her look like an absolute tube, then after a while you just float the idea that the ideas were sound but she was incompetent and that it would have all worked out fine with a different person. Shouldn't work, but it definitely could.
Bear in mind also that the objective of these people isn't necessarily to have their ideas actually happen. For a lot of think tanks and even political movements, the goldilocks zone is to be in the area where it seems possible and so they can still hoover up funds and be in the public eye and all that comes with it, but where none of it ever actually gets put to the test.
Truss more popular than ever at Tory conference
https://twitter.com/maitlis/status/1708805216747860409
https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1708821391254999096
Bottom right first picture - is that Hitler trying to fathom out modern tech?
Nope, trying to fathom how he came 19th in the most evil bastard in the room competition.
Can you imagine being so detached from reality that you think Truss is just a misunderstood genius stabbed in the back by the notoriously socialist banking elite?
It's got to be a mental illness surely?
I went to see Frankie Boyle tonight. He said she looks like the sort of person masturbates whilst thinking of new build houses.
That explains a lot
The grassroots of the party elected her leader, not Sunak, and it's clear that is still their position. It's now clear to any would-be leaders that they now have to position themselves economically to be the 'heir to Truss'. It's the definition of insanity.
Tory grassroutes, like my neighbour. When questioning the SNP poster I'd had erected on our frontage, really questioning.
Me - So you're voting Tory?
Them - Of course I am.
Me - Do you trust Johnson?
Them - No (laughing), of course not.
Me - Oh, so you're voting for someone you don't trust to be PM?
They turned and walked away.
Has there ever been anyone so unself-consious as that women? Her gawping smile desperate for approval after she delivers some more off-the-top-of-the-head playschool policy? Her speech was properly mad. I won't pretend to understand how dire the economic and social consequences of such unfunded tax-cuts would be on a nation already on its knees but I know a bit about housing and planning.
She has suggested we should build 500,000 homes per year. Before interest rate jumped and people had to stop buying bread so they could pay their mortgages or rent, England built just over 250k per annum. That was the post-Covid bounce period before things like Nationally Described Space Standards, Biodiversity Net Gain and the (also now cancelled) Nutrient Neutrality policies made securing planning consents even harder.
I wonder how she thinks we can double the number of new homes? Flats only? Micro-houses? Maybe we could use the fractured rock cavities we have exposed from fracking?
I can be sure of one thing though. No Tory will propose touching the Green Belt. Like the holes in your own belt, Green Belts needs to be reviewed every so often (15 years at present). We need a proper national conversation on the subject but no-one on any side is ever going to. Instead they repeat the tired matra of building on brownfield land. Again and again and again.
I haven't even mentioned the lack of resources, skilled tradesmen and even housebuilders that would all be structural barriers.
I honestly dont know who advises her or whether, like Alan Partridge pleading with Tony Hayers for a second series, she's just grasping at straws. There's more chance of monkeys playing tennis than building half a million homes per year.
He likely sees her as a disruptor and thinks that's great and that she is great.
I think she *is* a a disruptor but not in a good way! 😁
whereas she’s an empty sock puppet<br /><br />
I thought she reminded me of someone!
There must be conservative leadership in the US that is once again bold enough to call out hostile regimes as evil and a threat.”
Good for her to go and say that to the Republicans. All the MAGA Republicans are pro-Putin and doing their best to undermine support for UKR.
You make a good point.
Resignation honours list finally published - one new peer for each day and a half she was in office. If this seems as wrong to you as it does to me, there’s an ERS petition.
I’d write to my MP if he wasn’t a (doomed come the election) Tory sock puppet.
More totally shameless croneyism?
What a surprise.
As John Crace just tweeted: imagine the embarrassment of accepting an honour from Liz Truss, knowing that everyone will be laughing at you for the rest of your life
At least the ERS petition seems to be getting quite a few signatures (and yes - I know it probably won't make any difference!)
So a fair few on Truss' list and also the likes of Tim Martin (wetherspoons boss) seem to be honouring those who brought us Brexit, so the most embarrassing failure of a UK Prime Minister in all of history, has given honours to those who brought us the most embarrassing failure for the UK, this has to be the deaths knell for honours, it's not even funny anymore.
Time for an elected second chamber.
These new appointees to the House of Lords pour petrol on the already burning shit of recent years.
Matthew Elliot in parliament? Put his name to the people… let’s take control.
I’d write to my MP if he wasn’t a (doomed come the election) Tory sock puppet.
I wouldn't worry, Truss has just helped to even further discredit the whole the archaic nonsense which an incoming Labour government will abolish. And it won't come too soon.
https://www.itv.com/news/2022-12-05/labour-would-abolish-indefensible-house-of-lords-pledges-starmer
Someone wrote on Twitter/X that the Truss honour should always have an asterisk against it.
