So it is that Ms Truss’ every pronouncement will, from now until the Tories announce the winner, garner even more scrutiny than previously. And, within a short time of the final two being revealed to the world, the omens were not good. She Tweeted to her adoring public that, should she be duly elected, she would “Hit the ground from Day One”. Spot the missing word.
Having considered The Power Of Splat, Ms Truss then deleted the Tweet. But, as with so much that she does, the deletion was executed too slowly, something that could not be said for the speed at which her infamous Tory conference speech talking about Britain’s cheese deficit was wheeled out. Was she in hock to Big Wensleydale? How mature was her Cheddar?
Or would observers fixate on other aspects of the speech, like her assertion that she was off to Beijing to open New Pork Markets? By this morning, that had been forgotten, which might have been thought A Good Thing, except that what displaced the memory was her appearance on the BBC Radio 4 Today Programme, where she had set out her stall on economics.
Could she cite one leading economist who endorsed her plans to borrow in order to fund tax cuts? She could. And the name she pitched was Patrick Minford. That’s the same Patrick Minford who was getting it wrong in the early 1980s, when he was at the University of Liverpool, and is still getting it wrong forty years later. At least he is consistent, but not necessarily in a good way.
The Vagina Monologue makes his choice
Or even tone deaf economics, which may have been behind Chris Dillow’s musing that “Saying that Patrick Minford is your favourite economist is like saying your favourite singer is Florence Foster Jenkins”. Former chief Downing Street polecat Dominic Cummings added that Ms Truss was known as “the human hand grenade” because she blew up everything she touched.
He was also of the opinion that now former alleged Prime Minister Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson was backing Ms Truss because she would foul things up so badly, it would enable him to make a comeback. All of that should make the client journalist class stop and think, but they will not: the Mail is already gearing up to shill for her, while slagging off Sunak.
The right-leaning part of our free and fearless press is so obsessed with turning politics into a game where they back winners (whether or not their choices do any good for those hardworking citizens they claim to champion) that they have lost sight of the grim reality of life in the UK right now. More strikes, spiralling prices, increasing poverty and homelessness, the NHS under increasing strain, and the rule of law beginning to fray - badly.
Liz Truss could throw out all the culture war rubbish and actually try to address the public’s concerns - in other words, show some real leadership. She could sack the less useful Bozo appointees, like Priti Patel, Dominic Raab, Nadine Dorries and Suella Braverman, bringing in the less wacko Jeremy Hunt (the former Culture Secretary) and Tom Tugendhat.
She could assemble a team of advisors to guide her away from yet more displays of stupid, and towards sensible and focused leadership. Or she could pretend she knows it all and make an even bigger Horlicks of governing the country than Bozo did, believing like so many in the Westminster bubble that it really is all a game. That is a truly grim prospect.
What will happen when she hits the ground on Day One? Splat or bust, folks.
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A choice between a Blank Staring Eyes Fanatic and an Empty Head Violet Elizabeth Bott. Both of them fringe economic Nazis, like nutjob Friedmanite Minford. Same old, same old.
Britain brought this unending (thus far four decades long) horror on itself.
So, for what we are about to receive, God knows we've got it coming.
MissTrust is now apparently saying supporting Remain was a mistake. This woman has clearly sold her soul for a lot less Than Bart Simpson sold his! He at least got $5.
If we had decent journalism here in The UK, Liz Truss would be asked why she changed from speaking at The Liberal Democrat conference, with comments on The he Monarchy to A Conservative leadership hopeful.
We could also have an actual debate where Liz Truss discusses and debates her policies with respected economists, doctors, criminologists etc..
Then again this is The UK media we are talking about here.
For "...less wacko..." read "...strictly relatively just about less obvious..."
At root, Hunt, Tug-end-hat and all the others are no different to the present corrupt gang.
Hunt, for instance, has merely suppressed his rictus I-know-something-you-don't-know grin. While Ug-end-hatt
She won’t. She’ll do as she’s told. Which is why she’ll get the job in the first place.
It’s the only thing she ever got right,
If anyone had told me twenty-five years ago that in 2022 I'd be yearning for the return of the likes of Michael bloody Heseltine and Torysaurus venerabilis Ken Clarke I'd have killed them utterly to DETH, and then had an ice-cream.
If she doesn't "win" she'll thcream and thcream and thcream until she's THICK.
Violet Elizabeth Truss.
Christ almighty, that we've come to this.........
And consequent to the publication of the Forde Report, its really, really encouraging to realize that the Labour right preferred the prospect of this, instead of a left-led government.
@11:18 Cheesoid has proved many a time that she's thick. Ba-dumm &, moreover, TISH!!1! She’s going to have “a bonfire of red tape” and
“to scrap or replace by the end of 2023 EU laws deemed to hold back the economy”
People who know about That Sort Of Thing have called this target “unrealistic”, because you can’t say stuff like “deranged fucking nonsense from a know-nothing animal fanny” before the watershed. I am not au fait with the processes involved in such a project but I imagine it would need the coöperation of the Civil Service and some, or more, of the legal systems. Which in their case they have not got.
Not that Sunak's proposals are any less pie-in-the-sky. Installing CT and MRI scanners in empty High Street shops?
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