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In the Tory leadership battle, only the deranged are welcome. Arise, Liz Truss | John Crace https://t.co/eB9Is7RU61

— John Crace (@JohnJCrace) October 2, 2023

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.

Just in case there were any remaining doubt about how unhinged the lettuce is?

Isn’t the mad hatter employed by an American right wing funded “think tank” these days?

Some of this lot at least come across as free-but-hard-of-thinking whereas she’s an empty sock puppet. It’s obvious none of these ideas are emanating from her empty skull.

They probably convinced her that she’d thought of them herself. The kind of thing a teacher might pull with a particularly dim, primary age child

She’s absolutely unhinged.

Another cretin unleashed to cause chaos by the madness of Brexit.

If I was Trump I wouldn’t see that as a positive, like getting financial advice from kwasi kwarteng.

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

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.