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Liz Truss - what's going on there?

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catPA · 16/04/2024 07:01

Just watched her recent interview with Chris Mason on Newscast. Something is most definitely 'off.' Not just what she says, but her hand and facial expressions are peculiar - as if she's possibly medicated or drunk? She is in total denial - no surprise there - but just so odd. It's actually quite disturbing to watch. AIBU?

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tobee · 16/04/2024 22:44

Help him. Or, indeed, help us!

tobee · 16/04/2024 22:44

dizzydizzydizzy · 16/04/2024 20:38

Botox I'd say!

And yes totally and utterly unhinged.

Language!!!

Of course Sunak doesn't drink at all. I'm not sure being stone cold sober is helping him at the moment.

MsLuxLisbon · 16/04/2024 22:11

NoCloudsAllowed · 16/04/2024 22:04

I don't know whether substances are involved, but she seems like someone who is howling internally at how much she's selling herself out.

She doesn't believe in the shit she's spouting. She used to be a fairly middle of the road, remain supporting realist. Now she's on a far right bucking bronco seeing if she can hang on to some dregs of reputation by courting nutjobs. She knows they're nutjobs, but they're all she has left.

I would imagine now and then she catches her own eye in the mirror and shudders a bit.

I think you're giving her far too much credit. She seems to me to utterly lack self awareness and also to be enjoying every minute of this shitshow. She always seems high as a kite, I genuinely think she is drunk most days.

bombastix · 16/04/2024 22:05

She is just going where the money is. I mean they all are. The middle of the road Tory is dead and buried.

NoCloudsAllowed · 16/04/2024 22:04

I don't know whether substances are involved, but she seems like someone who is howling internally at how much she's selling herself out.

She doesn't believe in the shit she's spouting. She used to be a fairly middle of the road, remain supporting realist. Now she's on a far right bucking bronco seeing if she can hang on to some dregs of reputation by courting nutjobs. She knows they're nutjobs, but they're all she has left.

I would imagine now and then she catches her own eye in the mirror and shudders a bit.

bombastix · 16/04/2024 22:00

Churchill
Eden
Wilson
Thatcher
Johnson

All very heavy drinkers, if not certified alcoholics. I mean heavy drinkers is relative in Westminster

TitusMoan · 16/04/2024 21:50

bombastix · 16/04/2024 19:22

She's not going to be the first PM with a problem with alcohol and she won't be the last. Only a teetotal PM is safe. I'm not a Truss fan but drinking heavily often comes with the job.

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She’s not in the PM job though. She was only in it for forty-odd days or so. Not enough time at being prime minister to get alcoholism really entrenched… having said that, she’d need a decent level of intoxication to help her maintain the delusional state she’s clearly in.

SavageTomato · 16/04/2024 21:32

She's drunk on the power she perceives to be coming her way.. Silly fucker that she is, she's sidled up to Bannon and his white supremacy agenda. Check out the alignment with all of that. The thing is, she is a woman so will get chucked under the bus as soon as she is no longer useful. Fuck you, Liz, you venal waste of oxygen.

BigMandsTattooPortfolio · 16/04/2024 21:28

Word salads. They all do it.

dizzydizzydizzy · 16/04/2024 20:38

Botox I'd say!

And yes totally and utterly unhinged.

Rattatoille · 16/04/2024 20:34

Possibly Cluster B personality disorder?
One of the features: " has a style of speech which is excessively impressionistic but lacks detail"
A trait which also shows in Meghan Markle, her and Ms.Truss could talk for hours on end about absolutely nothing, the former with such confidence, no doubt thanks to her acting skills.

bombastix · 16/04/2024 19:22

LlynTegid · 16/04/2024 18:24

It has been alleged that Liz Truss is an alcoholic. Only those close to her may know the truth, but the OPs description seems consistent with that.

She's not going to be the first PM with a problem with alcohol and she won't be the last. Only a teetotal PM is safe. I'm not a Truss fan but drinking heavily often comes with the job.

LizzieSiddal · 16/04/2024 19:19

CroftonWillow · 16/04/2024 19:15

She sounds like she's on antidepressants to me.

Only an extremely high does would make her sound like she does.

NashvilleQueen · 16/04/2024 19:18
CroftonWillow · 16/04/2024 19:15

She sounds like she's on antidepressants to me.

NashvilleQueen · 16/04/2024 19:11

I loved it that time when she did the rounds of local radio one morning thinking it would be an easy ride and one after another they skewered her. It was hilarious.

For a former Lib Dem remainer she's definitely been on a journey. A journey where I suspect she's bank rolled by QAnon loons and now says all the bullshit that her paymasters request. She's a ridiculous figure and we should stop giving her any kind of platform.

GoldenTrout · 16/04/2024 19:11

I'm always slightly amazed that she turns up to things like remembrance wreath-laying ceremonies and the Coronation as ex-PM - let alone that she takes the ex-PM pension in full and did resignation honours.. If I'd failed as comprehensively and publicly as she did, there is no way I'd constantly be reminding the public like that, and I hope I'd work out that the only way to regain some respect would be to keep my head down and not show myself as a money-grubber desperate for publicity.

GoldenTrout · 16/04/2024 19:03

It says everything that the only company that will publish her book is Lord Ashcroft's. Commercial publishers won't touch it with a bargepole, because bookshops really aren't going to stock up on something that's going to have to be heavily remaindered in the very near future.

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catPA · 16/04/2024 19:01

I suspect she was borderline anyway, but probably the move into No 10 and then straight out again only weeks later has put her over the edge. She probably hadn't even unpacked. She is all over the place - weird gesticulations and to me, she seems either medicated or drunk. All she has left now is self-delusion, but I think she's actually in a downward spiral and it must be very difficult for her family.

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GoldenTrout · 16/04/2024 18:53

the80sweregreat · 16/04/2024 07:40

The irony is she received a lot of support from the conservatives and the 1922 committee and ones who could vote for her during those many weeks of campaigning to be PM back in 2022 , and it was obvious then from watching her interviews and the hustings on tv that she wasn't quite with it at times and would be weak.
However, she still won and it makes me wonder how. Why didn't they vote for Rishi Sunak back then? I know it wasn't a landslide for her , but people still thought she'd make a better PM.
It's sad she was the Queen's very last PM when she had served with 14 others before who were much more competent than she turned out to be across all the political parties.

"People" didn't think she would make a better PM. I'm not sure that those who voted for her within the party even thought that. They just preferred to vote for the candidate who didn't have a brown skin.

GoldenTrout · 16/04/2024 18:51

TTPD · 16/04/2024 07:23

I've just seen a clip from that interview and she does genuinely seem a little bit drunk.

x.com/bbcpolitics/status/1779980028547121157?s=46&t=5Dtkn4wJVUEoODNwWvtUMQ

In that interview she seriously claims to have some sort of mandate because she won a leadership election amongst a few thousand mad right-wingers in the Tory party. She lacks basic understanding of how the constitution works.

Mimilamore · 16/04/2024 18:46

Somebody take her away....

Mimilamore · 16/04/2024 18:44

Shocking woman... shocking words.... mad or sick or both

SerendipityJane · 16/04/2024 18:28

LlynTegid · 16/04/2024 18:24

It has been alleged that Liz Truss is an alcoholic. Only those close to her may know the truth, but the OPs description seems consistent with that.

"I gather he was drunk as a lord, so after a discreet period they will probably make him one ..."

If only she had crashed a car rather than the economy.

LlynTegid · 16/04/2024 18:24

It has been alleged that Liz Truss is an alcoholic. Only those close to her may know the truth, but the OPs description seems consistent with that.

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