[Tubby Isaacs]

She has said that she wants abolish the Supreme Court and move it back to the House of Lords. Ok. All that will do is shift the court from one building to another. The cases they hear will be the same as no doubt the judges will and so they are likely to hand down similar judgments. The main purpose of creating the Supreme Court in the first place was to have a demonstrable separation of legislature and judiciary. The basic functions did not change.

There's a talking point on the crank right that the Tories have failed because they didn't undo "Blair" enough. So the Supreme Court has to go. That's all this is.

[Crabcakes]

On the one hand there’s all these accounts of how hard done by Liz is, and how she’s actually really clever and stuff and her book is great, and if only she’d been allowed to persevere past the stage where she added thousands onto everyone’s mortgages and risked crashing one of the world’s biggest economies purely to give big tax cuts to her mates she’d have proven herself to be the best PM ever. Then on the other there’s the *actual book she wrote* which seems to be mainly complaining about misplaced Ocado deliveries, Dilyn leaving fleas in No. 10 (side note: more likely Boris), and that she wasn’t being waited on hand and foot by make-up artists and wardrobe assistants.

It’s like the juxtaposition between people who believe the quite phenomenal scenario that consciousness exists after death and that further this consciousness can manifest and communicate with us, and that the primary messages spirits wish to get across is not to impart some unique wisdom on the state of existence but just to tell you your nan hopes you’re well and that those keys you lost are down the back of the sideboard.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Wingnut welfare application part 94. Is this even true anyway?

[Andy McDandy]

Has anyone read an interview or 'analysus' yet that actually takes her moronic posturing to task? All I see are pseudo serious journalists saying 'ooo a bit controversial, what a character'.

Amazing what you can do with an A level in English, a plummy voice, and a desire to gossip.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Of course. She's 'good copy' and fuck the consequences...

[Tubby Isaacs]

The consequences include Keir Starmer doing cartwheels down Whitehall, so I can live with her making herself look stupid.

She's shown up in Parliament today for the "future of the West" topic that is... smoking.

She's talked abou the "health police", who knows what they'll ban next, eh?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Currency expert, Liz Truss, here. No Zimbabweans or Argentines were available for comment (Credit to OP)

[The Weeping Angel]

Lordy

[Tubby Isaacs]

You can see why she was PM, being such a slick operator.

[Yug]

Liz Truss has refused to rule out running to be Tory leader again, saying she has "unfinished business" with the Conservative Party.

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/liz-trus ... n-13115990

Pass the popcorn.

[Abernathy]

She really is out where the buses don’t run, isn’t she ?

[Bones McCoy]

Small State Liz: Abolish all these fundamental regulatory bodies.

Also Small State Liz: Where's the state employee to manage my hair and make-up?


If she pauses to reflect, she will recall she had a better lifestyle while fronting the Conservative friends of Russia.
* Party photographer.
* Unlimited fizzy wine (fizz with Liz).
* Receptions at high-rolling London venues.
* Wealthy collaborators, all happy to pick up he bill.

[Crabcakes]

She really is out where the buses don’t run, isn’t she ?

She’s so far out, if they even saw a bus they’d either throw rocks at it thinking it was a monster or make it their new god.

[Andy McDandy]

I'm missing something here.

She says the deep state stopped her enacting her plans. Wasn't the problem not that they stopped her (it could be argued that the plans were leaked, but Kwarteng still got to make his mini-budget) but that they didn't? And that the "Holy shit, what the fuck have they just done?" reaction from the very much not deep state international trade community was what did for her?

Unless of course she's a paranoid narcissist with an acute case of the Norma Desmonds?

[Abernathy]

Well, yes. Wasn't a huge factor in the shambles that Truss & Kwarteng actually declined to run their "mini-budget" proposals past the OBR before implementing them? In fact, didn't Kwarteng sack the leading treasury official before he announced his plans?

Yes, he did : https://www.ft.com/content/9571c1f7-55b ... 0fcdeefca4

[Crabcakes]

I'm missing something here.

You’re not missing anything other than not approaching the situation from the point of Liz Truss. She was told by her chums at 55 Tufton Street (who’d just helped her become PM) that a ton of frankly insane tax cuts to the super rich would propel the U.K. economy into the stratosphere. When the global financial markets responded with ‘what the fuck is this imbecile smoking?’ and the reverse happened, the only acceptable explanation *to her* is ‘boogeymen sabotaged it’. She can’t say who, or how, but the alternative is acceptance that her ideas (or at least the ideas in her head that may or may not have got there by someone in a think tank literally shoving an USB in her ear) were wrong, and that further the U.K. is in fact not a global powerhouse capable of dictating what happens across world finance but is rather at the mercy of international markets who couldn’t give 2 shits about her opinion on cheese imports.

And as her supporters and colleagues have melted away, so she has gone further down the rabbit hole to replace them with new, significantly crankier, sycophants.

[Bones McCoy]

Futurama fans will recognise the whole business, descending into a "blackjack and hookers" situation.

[Youngian]

You can see why she was PM, being such a slick operator.

Major - Biden
Hague- Biden
Duncan -Smith- Trump
Howard- Trump
Cameron- Biden
May- Biden with caveats
Johnson- Trump with caveats
Truss- Trump
Sunak- Quietly Trump until he's in Silicon Valley

[Crabcakes]

Whatever a glowing review is, this is the polar opposite

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/ ... nrepentant

[Bones McCoy]

Cartooninsts aren't being their usual generous selves.