Mailwatch(ed) Forum

Another one for the new PM.

7% for the Reform Party is quite an effort. Aren't those types supposed to be impressed by Liz Truss?

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Tue Sep 06, 2022 7:44 pm Welcome to Test Match Cricket. I believe certain parts of the media attacked Tony Blair and then Gordon Brown.

I mean, I think borrowing £200bn extra (lots of it for poorly targeted tax cuts) seems like a bit more than a "clever little point".

This is the stupidest tweet ever. Of *course* they were doing something else, and no one ever made any secret of it - they were holding the particularly shitty leader of a shitty party to account. Now that the ham fuckwand’s ample buttocks are on the back benches, Truss is that shitty leader and it’s her shitty government being called out.

Therese Coffey wouldn't get on most parish councils yet Truss thinks that she is capable of running the NHS and being deputy prime minister. What a joke of a prime minister.

I noticed that Robert Peston was taking the line earlier that Truss is a proper Tory leader unlike Boris Johnson. So clearly that was Johnson's problem was that he wasn't Tory enough.

Crabcakes wrote: ↑Tue Sep 06, 2022 8:11 pm
This is the stupidest tweet ever. Of *course* they were doing something else, and no one ever made any secret of it - they were holding the particularly shitty leader of a shitty party to account. Now that the ham fuckwand’s ample buttocks are on the back benches, Truss is that shitty leader and it’s her shitty government being called out.

Yep. And amazing that people who didn't like Johnson would take against Truss, who keeps praising Johnson, isn't it?

The problem at the moment looks like it's people who didn't mind Johnson overall not liking Truss at all. Though of course that may well change is Truss hands out free money without inflation rocketing.

As expected. I'm sure there won't be any dilution of worker rights, as promised at the last election, right?

satnav wrote: ↑Tue Sep 06, 2022 9:08 pm Therese Coffey wouldn't get on most parish councils yet Truss thinks that she is capable of running the NHS and being deputy prime minister. What a joke of a prime minister.

I noticed that Robert Peston was taking the line earlier that Truss is a proper Tory leader unlike Boris Johnson. So clearly that was Johnson's problem was that he wasn't Tory enough.

It's the J. Danforth Quayle gambit.

You better not screw me over, else that other one takes charge.

Why on earth is it taking Truss so long to name an Education Secretary? Is education low down on her list of priorities. At least education appears to have avoided Badenoch. Presumably education will end up with one of the many MPs who have rejected the role of Northern Ireland Secretary.

Kit Malthouse has got education.

Jesus. Just what Education needs one of Boris's old buddies.

That'll go down like a cup of cold sick at playtime.

Is that 4 Secretaries of State for Education in the space of 8 weeks?

satnav wrote: ↑Tue Sep 06, 2022 10:40 pm Is that 4 Secretaries of State for Education in the space of 8 weeks?

Good thing it was the school holidays.

Looking at this particular Night of Not the Sharpest Knives in the Box, I'm reminded of (Ironically) Airey Neave's words that to end a civil war you either have to accomodate your enemies, or kill every last one of them. There doesn't seem much accomodation this evening.

Well Liz sure proved Joe Lycett wrong.

He was wrong to say that Liz was the "backwash of available MPs".

That title is reserved for her cabinet of Liz loyalists.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Tue Sep 06, 2022 8:00 pm Another one for the new PM.

7% for the Reform Party is quite an effort. Aren't those types supposed to be impressed by Liz Truss?

No points for predicting that replacing Johnson with socially awkward Randist wonks wouldn’t go down well among the GE2019 Red wall converts. Being called the worst idlers in the world by a dismissive plummy voiced black man should make interesting vox pop viewing on Barnsley high street.
Who are the constituency who will replace them? Socially liberal City workers who don’t think they’re rich enough aren’t going to retain any marginals for the Tories.

Well, nearly time for PMQs. Wonder if Liz will stick to Boris-style “vaccines” and not answering questions, or whether she’ll answer questions but no one will realise as they’ll all be asleep?

Starmer going for the throat from Day 1.

Liz - not got answers?

"I'm on the side of people who work hard and do the right thing - so we will keep corporation tax low"

WTF?

Truss is as bad at this as Corbyn. Keir sticking firmly with the issues and Liz did at least try and respond before falling back on weak slogans for the benefit of guffawing backbenchers (Labour doesn’t understand aspiration, ner ner”).

Best Tory line coming from Theresa May says it all really.