Liz Truss - what's going on there?

It's tempting to jailbreak the Kindle version and email a copy to every household in the UK. After all we effectively bankrolled it. And then some.

Alternatively wait 24 hours for it to appear in charity shops. Assuming it can level a trestle table.

Amazon have limited reviews to only verified purchases. However a few got in quickly. The 5 star one has got to be a friend of her's though!

https://amzn.eu/d/363Ci7r

Sunak got some of his backers to support Truss because he fancied his chances against her rather than Mordaunt. That's how she got on the ballot.

Truss is utterly delusional. Maybe she is an alcoholic. Her refusal to take any responsibility, blame everyone else and sense of victimhood would make sense.

I feel so sad for the Queen that the last photograph of her was shaking hands with Liz Truss.

I once read an article in the Sunday Times about Truss' time as Foreign Secretary. She came across as self-absorbed and totally batshit. Apparently she was always arranging photo shoots with her as the star. I remember a particularly hilarious photo of her on top of a tank doing a Margaret Thatcher.

One way of looking at the Truss days, is that they were a Tory punishment for the whole UK as a result of daring not to pick Rishi, who may have been the "correct" candidate they wanted all along.

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.
Not people but people in the Conservative Party, They thought she'd be easier to control than Sunak.

that's my brain getting mixed up!

The far into the game, the propriety or otherwise of a serving elected UK politician actively campaigning for a (potential) candidate in another democracy should be a national scandal.

Farage and Johnson - not being elected - have a fig leaf.

Personally I think we'd solve a fucktonne of problems if people who aren't elected don't get a platform*. Certainly not on the BBC.

*I could probably state it a little clearer.

We’re not, are we? Mordaunt is paid to be an MP, the fucking about with a sword was a once in 70 years add on to her duties.

She’s lost the plot. She shared a stage with Steve Bannon the other week. STEVE BANNON. What…was Tommy Robinson not available that day?!?!

Nearly all the sane and decent ones were driven out by BJ- remember he removed the whip from dozens of them when they tried to stop him proroguing Parliament, and then I think had a lot of them deselected at the 2019 election, or they saw the writing on the wall and quit.

I heard that all ex prime ministers in UK are entitled to £150,000 per annum for life. Apparently there was a campaign at Westminster to prevent Ms Truss from receiving it, hope she is entitled to nothing.

It's a shocking but unsurprising indictment of our country that with all the issues we face, we are paying people to go fucking about with fucking swords. What a load of shit.

Personally anytime I have considered a medical reason for someone being a cunt, it's always been disproved.

That said - and for balance and fairness

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-brewery_syndrome

Don't underestimate the power of the press to reframe history - like with Brexit, Liz Truss is being portrayed as something that "just happened" to the UK, like a flood or an earthquake (or covid so they can rinse us with stories of vaccine success) that the plucky little Tories have managed to deal with. Earning a nations eternal gratitude.

No need to mention quite how Liz Truss happened now, is there ? Oh look ! Angela Rayner.

I don't think she seems drunk. I've worked with people like this and the best way to describe them is "delusionally self-confident." Drink has the same effect, but some people don't need alcohol to achieve this.

I hope her daughters are sensible but there is a chance they are okay with it as long as she takes care of their needs and wants. Look at Trump's children. They all support him because they benefit from him.

No, you're right. Hopefully, the public will blame the Tory party as a whole and not just one delusional woman.

And yes, Trump is of the same ilk. I don't think he is psychologically fit for public office either.

She wasn’t. Mordaunt was but the parliamentary party ensured that the membership couldn’t vote for her.

I think there is a huge difference between resilience and bouncing back after acknowledging your mistakes and learning from them, and simply refusing to accept that you ever made any mistakes in the first place.

The first type of person is admirable, I agree. We all make mistakes, and recognising where we have gone wrong/learning from it is a great way of moving forward.

Those who can't contemplate that they might have screwed up are not resilient at all. They are just deluding themselves and hiding from the reality.

unfortunately the modern generation of politicians are poor - of all parties tbh

This and I worry too about the political journalist trying to convince me they are super smart.

Her and Boris have adversely affected my family and finances and both epitomise the lack of shame in public life these days.

Though Rishi isn't great either how he lost leadership to her and her cosplaying Thatcher to conversative members is just unbelievable.

I keep meaning to get hold of the Daily Mail front page before her mini- budget.

New Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng is set to serve up a tax cuts bonanza in this week’s mini Budget, and could fast-track 1p income tax reduction

Presumably Bonanza related to the American Western TV show, Bonanza, possibly an episode with a devastating attack on the mail/stagecoach, the Cartwright's homestead or cattle herd similar to the budget's catastrophic attack on the publics' finances and the public finances?

The people who suffered as a result of her catastrophic period as PM should not blame a woman who is showing clear signs of mental illness and has no grasp on reality. They should instead blame the Tory party members who put her in that position despite ample evidence that she was wholly unsuited for the role from the start.

There isn't any polling available to show that isn't the case ,,,

But I think she is genuinely delusional. I think she actually believes that she is some sort of genius that has been unjustly thwarted.

I briefly saw a TL;DR headline (possibly MS Starts precis of a Telegraph article) where she opined that anyone who thought she crashed the economy either didn't understand economics, or was acting with "malevolent intent" (the Trumpian ring to that can fuel conspiracists everywhere ...).

She really would walk up a down escalator insisting it was going the wrong way as people passed her.