Popular Post Scott Posted October 18, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted October 18, 2022 By Chris Mason, political editor & Paul Seddon, political reporter BBC News Liz Truss has insisted she will lead the Tories into the next general election, despite U-turns leaving her battling to salvage her authority. The PM apologised for making mistakes, after the new chancellor Jeremy Hunt junked almost all of her tax-cutting plans to stabilise market turmoil. She added her month-old premiership "hasn't been perfect," but she had "fixed" mistakes. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-63293891 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post KhunBENQ Posted October 18, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted October 18, 2022 (edited) Allow me to put a big laughter on that even though I am not from the UK. I naively hoped that the UK would come out from Brexit strong and healthy as an example ???? Edited October 18, 2022 by KhunBENQ 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
placeholder Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 (edited) When I open this thread, the thread above it was about Kamikaze drones. 2 kamikaze threads in a row! Edited October 18, 2022 by placeholder 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bluespunk Posted October 18, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted October 18, 2022 33 minutes ago, Scott said: Liz Truss has insisted she will lead the Tories into the next general election Yeah, you also insisted that you would stand by your disastrous budget and insisted your tax cut blah blah blah was sustainable. Look what happened there… 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post baboon Posted October 18, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted October 18, 2022 7 minutes ago, Bluespunk said: Yeah, you also insisted that you would stand by your disastrous budget and insisted your tax cut blah blah blah was sustainable. Look what happened there… Maybe the election is to be held next week...? 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Chomper Higgot Posted October 18, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted October 18, 2022 Oh I do hope so. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnyF Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 55 minutes ago, baboon said: Maybe the election is to be held next week...? Yeah, because UK governments always call elections when they are at their weakest point. That way, they can ensure the worst possible result ????. I suspect they will wait as long as they can, which is no later than January 2025. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post placeholder Posted October 18, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted October 18, 2022 1 minute ago, JonnyF said: Yeah, because UK governments always call elections when they are at their weakest point. That way, they can ensure the worst possible result ????. I suspect they will wait as long as they can, which is no later than January 2025. You missed baboon's joke and the point of it. It's about how long Truss can expect to be in office. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Will B Good Posted October 18, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted October 18, 2022 2 hours ago, Scott said: Liz Truss has insisted she will lead the Tories into the next general election I, for one, am praying she does..........Who the **** keeps voting Torty? 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chomper Higgot Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 It appears she’s ducking out of this week’s PMQs. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post James105 Posted October 18, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted October 18, 2022 1 hour ago, Will B Good said: I, for one, am praying she does..........Who the **** keeps voting Torty? Generally speaking, people who vote for the least worst option. The economic turmoil being felt by all countries was due to excessive over reactions to covid and shutting down productivity for the best part of 2 years, printing hundreds of billions of £ which, to no-one's surprise except for the lockdown lovers and their childlike grasp of the economic consequences of such actions, had a hugely negative economic impact which will probably be felt for decades. Labour, based on what they said over the last few years, would have locked down for longer and harder, printed even more money and caused even more financial hardship. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post RayC Posted October 18, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted October 18, 2022 1 hour ago, James105 said: Generally speaking, people who vote for the least worst option. The economic turmoil being felt by all countries was due to excessive over reactions to covid and shutting down productivity for the best part of 2 years, printing hundreds of billions of £ which, to no-one's surprise except for the lockdown lovers and their childlike grasp of the economic consequences of such actions, had a hugely negative economic impact which will probably be felt for decades. Labour, based on what they said over the last few years, would have locked down for longer and harder, printed even more money and caused even more financial hardship. It's obviously hypothetical to question whether Labour's handling of the Covid crisis would have made matters worse but imo Labour can be criticised now for a lack of detail in their economic strategy. (Although in the circumstances, this is perfectly understandable: Why leave yourself open to attack when your opposition is constantly shooting themselves in the foot?) However, it's highly unlikely that the infighting in the Tory party will resolve itself before the next election, so if you vote Tory what will you get? Ideological libertarians (the ERG), 'Austerity' economics (Hunt) or 'Traditional' Toryism (Wallace)? Imo a vote for the Tories will be a vote for more chaos and far from the least-worst option. 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluespunk Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 5 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said: It appears she’s ducking out of this week’s PMQs. Quelle Surprise 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeseeker Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 (edited) Have you seen the movie Psycho? Seems that Jeremy Hunt is now Norman Bates...and his mother: Liz Truss... Edited October 18, 2022 by homeseeker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayC Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 I think that it's time to enact the old adage: "You've gotta laugh otherwise you'd cry". So with that in mind: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/liz-truss-lettuce-last-longer-28235047 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluespunk Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 So many u turns, truss is now spinning… https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/oct/18/liz-truss-may-abandon-pension-triple-lock-and-says-difficult-decisions-ahead?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kwilco Posted October 18, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted October 18, 2022 Lead into the election? The last person to say that was Boris....he lasted about another day. No cap on utilities after April, and no triple lock on pensions and benefits. Truss is pushing millions on low come into poverty. Her mini budget has down permanent damage because she has forced up the rates of government borrowing so just reversing everything will cost more than it did before. What is not understandable is why she is still there. She is the most unpopular PM in history. She meets the dreaded 1922 committee tomorrow so they may tell her to go. The problem is who to replace her with and quick. Never before in UK history has a party with an 80 seat majority been unable to firm a government.. Thanks to Boris's inability to tell the truth and resign, the Britsh government has collapsed and taken Britain's credibility with it. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwilco Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 11 hours ago, RayC said: I think that it's time to enact the old adage: "You've gotta laugh otherwise you'd cry". So with that in mind: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/liz-truss-lettuce-last-longer-28235047 I believe it was the Economist that initially compared her premiership to the shelf life of a lettuce. Either way their is universal condemnation of Truss unlike anything we have seen in a lifetime. The Tories are involved in a massive and vsin damage limitation process..... but the only way out is to replace Truss.... they may even have to rethink the office of PM itself... promoting the Chancellor whilst relegating the office of PM to cha lady. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post DezLez Posted October 18, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted October 18, 2022 1 hour ago, kwilco said: they may even have to rethink the office of PM itself... promoting the Chancellor whilst relegating the office of PM to cha lady. Actually The office of prime minister is not established by any statute or constitutional document, but exists only by long-established convention, whereby the reigning monarch appoints as prime minister the person most likely to command the confidence of the House of Commons The prime minister is ex officio also First Lord of the Treasury! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BritManToo Posted October 19, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted October 19, 2022 Would like to correct the caption ......... "I'm sticking around because I was elected to deliver for the rich greedy Tories". 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will B Good Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 5 hours ago, kwilco said: Lead into the election? The last person to say that was Boris....he lasted about another day. No cap on utilities after April, and no triple lock on pensions and benefits. Truss is pushing millions on low come into poverty. Her mini budget has down permanent damage because she has forced up the rates of government borrowing so just reversing everything will cost more than it did before. What is not understandable is why she is still there. She is the most unpopular PM in history. She meets the dreaded 1922 committee tomorrow so they may tell her to go. The problem is who to replace her with and quick. Never before in UK history has a party with an 80 seat majority been unable to firm a government.. Thanks to Boris's inability to tell the truth and resign, the Britsh government has collapsed and taken Britain's credibility with it. Tories may yet be able to find someone to lead them into the next election.............. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Chomper Higgot Posted October 19, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted October 19, 2022 21 hours ago, James105 said: Generally speaking, people who vote for the least worst option. The economic turmoil being felt by all countries was due to excessive over reactions to covid and shutting down productivity for the best part of 2 years, printing hundreds of billions of £ which, to no-one's surprise except for the lockdown lovers and their childlike grasp of the economic consequences of such actions, had a hugely negative economic impact which will probably be felt for decades. Labour, based on what they said over the last few years, would have locked down for longer and harder, printed even more money and caused even more financial hardship. As out of touch as Truss. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BritManToo Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 (edited) 21 hours ago, James105 said: Generally speaking, people who vote for the least worst option. I don't vote because they never offer candidates that I feel are worthy of my vote. If only voting forms had "no suitable candidate" as an option, I might be tempted to vote. Last time I voted was for Arthur Scargill's Socialist Labour Party (1996?). Edited October 19, 2022 by BritManToo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwilco Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 5 hours ago, DezLez said: Actually The office of prime minister is not established by any statute or constitutional document, but exists only by long-established convention, whereby the reigning monarch appoints as prime minister the person most likely to command the confidence of the House of Commons The prime minister is ex officio also First Lord of the Treasury! Precisely....do to save embarrassment they could keep her as PM but sideline her power. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chomper Higgot Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 Not that I would offer the slightest sympathy, but Truss is a fit for the ‘Glass Cliff’: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_cliff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puchooay Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 12 hours ago, kwilco said: No cap on utilities after April You are making that up. There will be caps but not for everyone. There will be means tests done. 12 hours ago, kwilco said: no triple lock on pensions and benefits. You are making that up too. No decision has been made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac Mickmanus Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 Anyone willing to try and defend her and give some positives to her tenure . Lets face it , if you turned Liz Truss into an atom and also turned Kwasi Kwarteng into an atom and put them both into the hadron collider and sent them in different directions , when they collide , Diane Abbot would appear as the result 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rankric Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 This birds punched way above her weight. I would not be surprised if she was a swinger. I thought she would last a year but she has completely wilted. A month and shes gone and im gonna suggest the first PM to be passed as unfit for office due to a mental breakdown. Way out of her depth shes heading for a huge fall. In a year i would not be surprised if she was on smack after this shambolic performance. Worst ever, it cannot get any worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 7 minutes ago, rankric said: Worst ever, it cannot get any worse. Don't say that. I was just about to buy front row tickets. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jak2002003 Posted October 19, 2022 Share Posted October 19, 2022 9 hours ago, BritManToo said: Would like to correct the caption ......... "I'm sticking around because I was elected to deliver for the rich greedy Tories". Yes . And she was not elected by the public. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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