100 nominations needed. Sky News reports that MPs will defect to Labour if Johnson stands. This will be carnage.
Re: Liz Truss - dimmest prime minister ever?
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2022 6:00 pm
by Spoonman
Youngian wrote: ↑Thu Oct 20, 2022 5:40 pm
100 nominations needed. Sky News reports that MPs will defect to Labour if Johnson stands. This will be carnage.
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Re: Liz Truss - dimmest prime minister ever?
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2022 6:17 pm
by davidjay
Great. The last thing we need at the moment is a load of "You've let them in but you don't want St Jeremy" bleating.
Re: Liz Truss - dimmest prime minister ever?
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2022 6:22 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
Bozo won't get 100. Sunak and Mordaunt and Truss got there before, and I think Badenoch or whoever will get most of the Truss votes because that lot think Bozo is a lefty green.
Re: Liz Truss - dimmest prime minister ever?
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2022 8:25 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
Re: Liz Truss - dimmest prime minister ever?
Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2022 12:45 am
by mattomac
Youngian wrote: ↑Thu Oct 20, 2022 5:40 pm
100 nominations needed. Sky News reports that MPs will defect to Labour if Johnson stands. This will be carnage.
I just expect they will defect to independent.
Re: Liz Truss - dimmest prime minister ever?
Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2022 10:11 am
by Samanfur
I'd be concerned about the reaction to them joining Labour, to be frank.
Whilst attracting people - voters or MPs - away from the Tories is a good thing, any MPs still clinging on now didn't have a problem ideologically with Johnson or Truss until this point.
Re: Liz Truss - dimmest prime minister ever?
Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2022 10:20 am
by davidjay
I'd let them join provided they agreed not to stand for Parliament. Then we'd see how many are committed to socialism.
Re: Liz Truss - dimmest prime minister ever?
Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2022 8:47 pm
by satnav
I just saw a newspaper in the hotel reception in Barcelona where they have an headline of. 'Elizabeth le Breve.' Which translates as Elizabeth the Brief. Why didn't any of our papers run with that headline?
“Winning”, a party may win an election, a person is elected.
Re: Liz Truss - dimmest prime minister ever?
Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2022 8:13 pm
by Abernathy
Have we all seen/heard Jonathan Pie’s verdict on Truss? As ever, Mr. Pie doesn’t hold back, and it’s impossible to disagree with a single word .
Re: Liz Truss - dimmest prime minister ever?
Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2022 8:25 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
The Liz Truss fiasco then. You know who it's really bad news for?
No, me neither.
Re: Liz Truss - dimmest prime minister ever?
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2022 7:08 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
These aren't so much disastrous as "Frinton Town Hall have called off your show because of inadequate ticket sales".
Re: Liz Truss - dimmest prime minister ever?
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2022 10:11 pm
by Youngian
Could be worse, Francois Hollande left office with a four percent approval rating.
Re: Liz Truss - dimmest prime minister ever?
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2022 11:26 am
by Malcolm Armsteen
Truss quotes Seneca.
I hope she knows that he was sentenced to death by the Senate and exiled by Claudius...
(But Seneca only fucked Caligula's sister, Truss fucked an entire nation).
Re: Liz Truss - dimmest prime minister ever?
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2022 11:52 am
by Malcolm Armsteen
In the same letter to his friend Lucilius, Seneca also wrote:
Suppose that you hold wealth to be a good: poverty will then distress you, and, – which is most pitiable, – it will be an imaginary poverty. For you may be rich, and nevertheless, because your neighbour is richer, you suppose yourself to be poor exactly by the same amount in which you fall short of your neighbour. You may deem official position a good; you will be vexed at another's appointment or re-appointment to the consulship; you will be jealous whenever you see a name several times in the state records.
That bit is never quoted by Tories...
Re: Liz Truss - dimmest prime minister ever?
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2022 12:03 pm
by Bones McCoy
And still airing the:
I ain't done nothin' wrong.
narrative.
Pathetic!
Re: Liz Truss - dimmest prime minister ever?
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2022 8:03 pm
by Bones McCoy
Today Liz Truss became the first Prime Minster since Gordon Brown to serve their term without sacking Michael Gove