Current Events > How long does Liz Truss have left?

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No other conservative PM will do any better. The UK tanked it's economy with brexit. Or rather brexit exposed the underlying failings of the UK's economic system.

UK will go crying back to the EU

I can't believe how you can be so cartoonishly evil/incompetent that you just go "taxes go bye bye" without a single logical thought as to how to make it work, simply because you are so ideologically deranged on the "taxes are evil" train that nothing other than eliminating them matters to you.

And you won the support of the party on that platform.

The real question is will she outlast The Lettuce?

She hasn't even shown up to parliament today for an emergency debate. Apparently on "urgent business" planning her leaving party?

Trelve posted...

She hasn't even shown up to parliament today for an emergency debate. Apparently on "urgent business" planning her leaving party?

Starter's "The lady is not for turning up" was savagely brilliant.

TomClark posted...

Starter's "The lady is not for turning up" was savagely brilliant.

Definitely. I'm hoping that is on a few of the front pages tomorrow. It was gold.

His "I guess under this government everyone gets to be PM for 15 minutes" was great too.

https://twitter.com/Parody_PM/status/1582005174213541888

https://twitter.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1582039734846574592

Look at all that red!

Trelve posted...

https://twitter.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1582039734846574592

Look at all that red!

Stop it, I can only get so erect.

https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/1582757875297812480

It's happening again. One cabinet minister down...

And so it begins!

I'm sure she'll blame this on the "tofu eating, guardian reading wokerati."

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Did she "accidentally" say something racist? Did she accidentally say something that wasn't racist?

Did... Did she resign by accident? So many questions.

I just hope that this doesn't detract too much from the comedy (and rare honesty) of Stein getting suspended for the press briefing where he said Sajid Javid "was shit."

Also, William Wragg has submitted a letter of no confidence in Truss, saying that he actually wanted to vote with Labour against Truss' fracking bill, but didn't because it would mean he would lose the whip, and without the whip he would... no longer be able to say he had no confidence in Truss, and lose his position in the 1922 committee that has the power to remove Truss.

Not a great day for Liz, all in all.

TomClark posted...

Not a great day for Liz, all in all.

Probably most of her days are great compared to the day she killed the queen

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"Any other leader would be twenty points ahead...oh"

Still, 22% are going to stick with the Tories after all this?

https://twitter.com/SuellaBraverman/status/1582762282626736128?s=20&t=58f1HoPfiHpAKNxtER1IXA

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Those fucking Buttery Males again!

https://twitter.com/jessphillips/status/1582795322568232961?s=20&t=Fn1qj0g3JvHEPr9KKWGXYA

TomClark posted...

https://twitter.com/SuellaBraverman/status/1582762282626736128?s=20&t=58f1HoPfiHpAKNxtER1IXA

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Those fucking Buttery Males again!

that is a decision made long ago lol, that's Truss being told by the somewhat-adults that have stuck her in the attic "you can't sack her because that makes it look like a mistake putting her in, but the second she sticks a toe out of line you're going to stick the knife in"

I honestly have no clue, as basically I don't think anyone of note wants to inherit Truss's mess. That's probably her saving grace. She's made the tories so unpopular that nobody wants to be stuck cleaning up the mess.

I wouldn't be shocked if the tories stuck with her until January, 2025, just recognizing that they're SOL for at least one election regardless. That way everything is her fault and the election after that is the rebound for when the Brits invariably get angry at Labour.

Nobody can positively turn that party around in two years, especially two years coinciding with an economic downturn, so who's going to volunteer to go down in flames?

K181 posted...

That way everything is her fault and the election after that is the rebound for when the Brits invariably get angry at Labour.

Fucking useless Labour. Unable to fix the Tories mess, so it's best to let the Tories in to fuck it up more.

Funkydog posted...

Fucking useless Labour. Unable to fix the Tories mess, so it's best to let the Tories in to fuck it up more.

I'm not saying it's logical. But yeah.

And also, the Brits were given a clear choice between careening off the Brexit pathway with a failed party or vote for a Labour guy that they didn't want to share a pint with, and they overwhelmingly chose the Tories in 2019.

That'd be like if Illinois voted for Trump in 2020. What?

K181 posted...

I'm not saying it's logical. But yeah.

And also, the Brits were given a clear choice between careening off the Brexit pathway with a failed party or vote for a Labour guy that they didn't want to share a pint with, and they overwhelmingly chose the Tories in 2019.

That'd be like if Illinois voted for Trump in 2020. What?

We're fucking morons, no doubt.

An exciting night in the house of commons.

The Conservative chief and deputy whips may have been fired or resigned
Conservative MPs were physically manhandling others into voting no on a vote on banning fracking
Jacob Rees-Mogg doesn't know who the whips are
The ex-home Secretary is going to give a damming statement about Liz Truss tomorrow.
Conservative back benchers are saying enough is enough and the party is a disgrace.

https://twitter.com/feedthedrummer/status/1582807763776065537?t=2NK-p_IPjzEyXkxNYqHBmw&s=19

The party is tearing itself apart.

Walker for PM.

Wait, unless he's actually a Nazi and this is his two minutes of non-insanity a day.

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That sounds quirky to me.

.... unless you mean really weird.

At least they got a competent chancellor so they aren't completely fucked as a country.

But yea, how the fuck does a person like Truss get voted in. Every word and every decision she has put out has been absolutely wrong. Like you could literally just use a wheel of fortune as a decision maker and you'd get better policy than Truss.

To cap off a wild day with suspensions, resignations, fights and nobody knowing if the Whips have quit or not, it turns out that Truss abstained from her own fracking vote.

The lettuce is gonna win, isn't it...?

Big announcement outside number 10 in a few minutes!

And that's that.

I voted "by the end of the week" and I was right.

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TomClark posted...

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What's the story with the lettuce?

gunplagirl posted...

What's the story with the lettuce?

It's now legally in charge of the country.

TomClark posted...

It's now legally in charge of the country.

I can't even say it's a joke country when we had an orange in charge for 4 years and it nearly had its cult overthrow the government.

gunplagirl posted...

What's the story with the lettuce?

There was a joke by some of the papers that after 10 days, a lettuce from Tesco would still been edible - and they predicted that's longer than Truss would be PM.

I'm surprised half of CE thought she would last until Christmas

Her cabinet was literally being replaced by Sunak's cabinet while she was in power (in name at least) who were openly 180ing all her decisions.

Dan_Haren- posted...

At least they got a competent chancellor so they aren't completely fucked as a country.

I want to take exception to this.

Hunt is absolutely not a competent chancellor. The dizzling heights of "Not as shit as Kwarteng" doesn't make him good.

Hunt is the man who absolutely destroyed the NHS in every quantifable way when he was in charge of it and is a huge backer of Austerity Measures which if you recall was the root cause of the UK's social and economic woes in the first place over the past 12 years.

You've basically replaced Trapjaw with Skeletor and gone "Well Skeletor's better than Trapjaw so he's competent to run our economy." It's a non-sequitur.

Never forget that Boris, Truss, Cameron, May, Mogg, Hunt, Sunak, Wallace, Patel, Kiwasi, they're all symptons of the same Tory cancer.

Maze_ posted...

I'm surprised half of CE thought she would last until Christmas

Her cabinet was literally being replaced by Sunak's cabinet while she was in power (in name at least) who were openly 180ing all her decisions.

I want to take exception to this.

Hunt is absolutely not a competent chancellor. The dizzling heights of "Not as shit as Kwarteng" doesn't make him good.

Hunt is the man who absolutely destroyed the NHS in every quantifable way when he was in charge of it and is a huge backer of Austerity Measures which if you recall was the root cause of the UK's social and economic woes in the first place over the past 12 years.

You've basically replaced Trapjaw with Skeletor and gone "Well Skeletor's better than Trapjaw so he's competent to run our economy." It's a non-sequitur.

Never forget that Boris, Truss, Cameron, May, Mogg, Hunt, Sunak, Wallace, Patel, Kiwasi, they're all symptons of the same Tory cancer.

Youre absolutely right.

Is Boris Jackass going to replace her?

Lonestar2000 posted...

Is Boris Jackass going to replace her?

Allegedly that's what most tory party members want.

Which is so insane. I don't get how even the most right wing rag can defend kicking a guy out for being unfit for office, bringing them back because the replacement was worse and actively refusing to have an election.

gunplagirl posted...

What's the story with the lettuce?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Star_lettuce

basically "who will last longer, this Lettuce or Liz Truss?"

"Liz Truss" somehow sounds like lettuce.

seems like there wasnt much trust for Lizz...

>_>

ZevLoveDOOM posted...

seems like there wasnt much trust for Lizz...

>_>

she's a Tatcherite, isn't she? no wonder if she's hated.

Ricemills posted...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Star_lettuce

basically "who will last longer, this Lettuce or Liz Truss?"

"Liz Truss" somehow sounds like lettuce.

That was actually a fun read. Thanks for that!

Ricemills posted...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Star_lettuce

basically "who will last longer, this Lettuce or Liz Truss?"

"Liz Truss" somehow sounds like lettuce.

That's hilarious that the lettuce now has its own Wikipedia page.

Maze_ posted...

Allegedly that's what most tory party members want.

Which is so insane. I don't get how even the most right wing rag can defend kicking a guy out for being unfit for office, bringing them back because the replacement was worse and actively refusing to have an election.

Wasnt there a theory going around, even before Boris Johnson's successor was chosen, that they were going to put a leader in who would fail so miserably that they could push the idea of Boris returning as a redeeming saviour?

This poll is a nice reminder that when it comes to politics, most people here have no clue what they're talking about