BREAKING NEWS ! Liz Truss WINS !

[Bluespunk]

And so it begins…Priti Patel has resigned, returning to back benches rather than serve under truss. 
 

No loss there. 
 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/05/priti-patel-quits-as-home-secretary-after-liz-truss-leadership-victory?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Edited September 5, 2022 by Bluespunk
Updated link added

[jak2002003]

43 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

And so it begins…Priti Patel has resigned, returning to back benches rather than serve under truss. 
 

No loss there. 
 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/05/priti-patel-quits-as-home-secretary-after-liz-truss-leadership-victory?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

God, she must be bad if Priti Patel won't work with her!!! 

[soi3eddie]

4 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

The only thing Truss is going to turn around are the promises she made the Tory faithful to get the job.

 

Oh and Boris, he’s planning to come back.

 

He understands Truss is his best chance.

 

Agreed. By December, the Tory party membership will be begging Boris to come back. Unlikely he would though as he'll be probably be earning £££ millions elsewhere by then.

 

[baboon]

13 minutes ago, jak2002003 said:

God, she must be bad if Priti Patel won't work with her!!! 

Maybe biding her time until Johnson returns?

[baboon]

2 minutes ago, soi3eddie said:

Agreed. By December, the Tory party membership will be begging Boris to come back. Unlikely he would though as he'll be probably be earning £££ millions elsewhere by then.

 

Begging for a corrupt, venal liar to lead them again. Says it all about their values...

[bendejo]

7 hours ago, RayC said:

Not sure why anyone in their right mind would want to be PM at this particular moment in time?

As they say, it may be the only time you have.

There was a US politician who made a stab at the presidential run in 2012.  He made a good showing but didn't get past the primaries, but according to the press was still quite a popular personality whilst campaigning for others in his party.  Well, a few years went by, his inner-buffoon became prevalent and he couldn't even carry his own state.  He put a book out in the last 2 years or so, it sold about 12 copies. Summary: he missed his moment.
 

 

[RayC]

2 hours ago, bendejo said:

As they say, it may be the only time you have.

There was a US politician who made a stab at the presidential run in 2012.  He made a good showing but didn't get past the primaries, but according to the press was still quite a popular personality whilst campaigning for others in his party.  Well, a few years went by, his inner-buffoon became prevalent and he couldn't even carry his own state.  He put a book out in the last 2 years or so, it sold about 12 copies. Summary: he missed his moment.
 

 

Perhaps but I don't really think that is the case here. Truss is 48; young for a leader. She had probably another 15 years in which to consider running for leader. Moreover, it's not as though there appear to be  that many charismatic potential leaders waiting in the wings of her party, so time was on her side.

 

No one can predict the future - as many here remind us at regular intervals - but I would suggest that it is conceivable that if events go badly wrong for Truss in 2023,  she might find herself on the political slag heap at 50.

 

Imo this was a good election to lose for the other contenders.

[Chomper Higgot]

9 hours ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

They need to chime in with the pretend celebration .

*Just what We/I wanted , really pleased with the results because it will mean they will lose the next election* .

  I think it stems from the joke song that football fans sing to each other "We want him(their manager) to stay " , singing they want the oppositions manager  to stay on as manager because he's not very good  .

   Quite funny when it was first sung about 20 years ago

I think you’ll find many of us who oppose this failed government made categorical statements as soon as the candidates were announced that our preferred offering would be Truss.

 

It’s there in the record of the posts we made at the time.

[Chomper Higgot]

5 hours ago, soi3eddie said:

Agreed. By December, the Tory party membership will be begging Boris to come back. Unlikely he would though as he'll be probably be earning £££ millions elsewhere by then.

 

He be back faster than he could tell a lie.

[placeholder]

Only 12 percent of those polled in the UK think Truss would make a good or great prime minister. There's also this:

 

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2022/09/01/what-do-people-think-liz-truss?utm_campaign=wp_todays_worldview&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_todayworld

[transam]

10 hours ago, jak2002003 said:

God, she must be bad if Priti Patel won't work with her!!! 

Perhaps Patel knew she was going to be moved, let's not get carried away with lefty banter, eh....????..................????

[baboon]

29 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Only 12 percent of those polled in the UK think Truss would make a good or great prime minister. There's also this:

 

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2022/09/01/what-do-people-think-liz-truss?utm_campaign=wp_todays_worldview&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_todayworld

Callers to LBC radio are being equally scathing. Very few are saying anything positive. And this is a station with one Rachel Johnson as a presenter and used to have Farage, too. It's hardly an instrument of the left...

[CharlieH]

Reported posts rremoved.

[transam]

I reckon a major reshuffle is coming up, Rishi, weeeell, I think he has buried himself, after being ignored at the winning ceremony, tea boy job, perhaps.

Patel, knew she was toast, so an interesting few days ahead.

Truss and Rayner at the dispatch box will be a must-see, I wonder if bad language beeps will be installed for the recordings.......  ????

[baboon]

Dorries is out. Maybe even she has the nous to recognise she is unemployable by anyone other than Johnson.

[transam]

41 minutes ago, baboon said:

Dorries is out. Maybe even she has the nous to recognise she is unemployable by anyone other than Johnson.

Yes, reshuffles are quite normal, especially with new leaders, even your crew does it, except for the deputy leader, that is, probably a sore point over there....????

[transam]

3 hours ago, baboon said:

Dorries is out. Maybe even she has the nous to recognise she is unemployable by anyone other than Johnson.

You obviously didn't know, Dorries campaigned for the new PM, Liz Truss....????............????..

 

 

[baboon]

^^

I don't watch GBeebies. But then neither does anyone else given their risible viewing figures....

[DezLez]

16 hours ago, baboon said:

Begging for a corrupt, venal liar to lead them again. Says it all about their values...

I thought this forum was about the UK Head of Government, not the previous head of the USA!

????

PS;  Maybe both!

Edited September 6, 2022 by DezLez
PS added

[metisdead]

A post with content and a link to a Satire site has been removed as a Satire site is not a credible source of news. 

[Mac Mickmanus]

2 minutes ago, DezLez said:

 

She has held 5 ministerial posts and is an Oxford Graduate!

Enough said!

 

It was humour .

Satire , not meant to be taken seriously 

[jak2002003]

6 hours ago, transam said:

Perhaps Patel knew she was going to be moved, let's not get carried away with lefty banter, eh....????..................????

What?  No 'lefty banter' intended.  Better people don't start left or right debates when none are needed. 

[DezLez]

4 minutes ago, jak2002003 said:

What?  No 'lefty banter' intended.  Better people don't start left or right debates when none are needed. 

Right on!  ????

[placeholder]

4 minutes ago, jak2002003 said:

What?  No 'lefty banter' intended.  Better people don't start left or right debates when none are needed. 

But baiting people do.

[DezLez]

2 minutes ago, placeholder said:

But baiting people do.

With a right or a left hook?  ????

Sorry!

Let's stop the banter and get back seriously on a serious topic!

[baboon]

3 minutes ago, placeholder said:

But baiting people do.

You should have seen the posts that were removed.... Took baiting to a new level.

[Chomper Higgot]

And she’s already on her first U-Turn.

 

‘No handouts to help with energy bills’ has just swung around to be ‘tax funded handouts’.

 

It’s to be noted this ‘tax’ is going to be levied on everyone, rather than a windfall tax on the energy companies.

 

So energy company profit is protected by handing taxes to consumers to pay high bills to energy companies.

 

With the Tories was it ever thus.

[proton]

On 9/5/2022 at 7:37 PM, Denim said:

Many Brits will be disappointed.

 

I really wanted a non binary handicapped person of color with ethnic minority vegan parents as PM

 

Gutted.

I wanted the Nigerian woman, the only one who seemed to have any guts. Still, have to give Truss a chance before knocking her, not even started and people are.

[baboon]

48 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

And she’s already on her first U-Turn.

 

‘No handouts to help with energy bills’ has just swung around to be ‘tax funded handouts’.

 

It’s to be noted this ‘tax’ is going to be levied on everyone, rather than a windfall tax on the energy companies.

 

So energy company profit is protected by handing taxes to consumers to pay high bills to energy companies.

 

With the Tories was it ever thus.

Socialism is always fine for the rich. The same people who have convinced so many of the working class that it is beyond the pale for the likes of us.

Truss is nothing but their stooge. And once they have no further use for her, she too will be slung out like an incontinent dog in the night.

Edited September 6, 2022 by baboon

[transam]

14 hours ago, jak2002003 said:

What?  No 'lefty banter' intended.  Better people don't start left or right debates when none are needed. 

But these threads are full of Tory put downs and Tory MP attacks, where have you been................????