Liz Truss - what's going on there?

I saw her this morning talking about the new anti smoking law. I thought she looked and sounded unwell, puffy faced.

Deranged.
Full stop.

Agree. They are all such appalling people. Every time I see Suella Braverman I am appalled she has a public platform. Liz Truss, Priti Patel, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Boris Johnston to. Do they think we have the memory of a goldfish? I mean Rishi Sunak is appalling too, but the rest of them are in a different league.

I heard she got a £1,500 advance for her book.
Puts her right up there with ‘Basket-weaving for beginners’. 😀

People should not even buy her book. The woman is a disgrace, who has cost people dear.

Well are she was very publicly and unceremoniously dumped out of her job as PM she had two possible explanations to mentally take on board:

A) it was because she was way out of her depth, incompetent and not up to the job or

B) it was all a conspiracy against her, she was right all along and the establishment was out to get her because she was right wing / a woman / insert any excuse here.

She clearly took option B, the problem with this is once you go down the conspiracy path you end up getting more and more nutty. Scroll forward a few years and she will probably be found shouting angrily at pigeons in the local park.

When you look at the people who rise to the top of the Conservative party it makes you realise what a bunch of odd, venal, false, self serving, flawed, detached from reality weirdos they are.

Truss, Mogg, Anderson, Johnson, Sunak, Braverman, Patel.......the list is endless really.

In any other organisation these people would be the person in the corner who bears a grudge, smells of damp cardigan and has a 'private' drawer full of out of date biscuits and coupons clipped from the Daily Mail. In 30 years they've never been promoted, are mostly under warning for voicing sexist, racist opinions and haven't been invited to after work drinks since 1997.

Well it’s definitely not worse, is it?

Ah OK. I'd remembered some earlier polls which had Badenoch as favourite, but I've just had a (very!) quick google it seems that didn't last too long and she was overtaken by Mordaunt.

The alternative was Sunak, and look how that's turned out!!!

I have it on good authority that she is a (barely) functioning alcoholic.

I think it's called the Dunning Kruger effect. Where a person overestimates their ability. Here it's coupled to narcissism and mild sociopathy. She cannot empathise with the people she harmed to gain insight into where it all went wrong, and has developed a persecution complex to protect her sense of self worth. It's comical but equally frightening.

2023:
‘According to reports, Liz Truss net worth in 2023 is estimated to be £8.4 million (or around $13 million). ‘

Awful woman. I can’t believe she’s got the brass neck to appear in public again, let alone write a book. Surely it can’t be for the money , she gets money for life for being PM which is bad enough. So self absorbed. Is Kwasi Karteng still around ? He seems to have had the decency to lay low after trashing the economy

I really think she believes that if the Tories crash and burn as predicted at the GE,she is the person to unite them and bring them back to true Conservative Values.
I think it has been said she sees herself as the the new Thatcher.

I personally think she is mentally unwell, but maybe that's because I am about as far from her political position as possible.

Also Boris Johnson would have loved to be prime minister when Her Majesty passed away. Just for his name to be in the record in some way.

Mordaunt would have won with the members. The Mail helped fix it by running negative stories about her to keep her off the ballot because they -and the lunatic right wing media - wanted their 'true Tory budget' and useful idiot in Truss.

Reminds me of her cheese speech.

She was also saying that the new rules restricting smoking were wrong and that people should be free to smoke. Utter Trump-y weirdo.

Not true. The favourite among the membership was Mordaunt and a lot of them were severely pissed off when she was excluded.

She's bonkers. She was also a Lib Dem and a Remainer so she'll jump on any bandwagon.

She destroyed the economy in 40 days out of pure arrogance and ignorance. If it was a Labour PM you'd hear nothing else for the next 50 years.

I honestly don't think this was about race at all. The favourite among Tory party members was Kemi Badenoch, but she didn't make it through the MP voting stages.

Arguably the most incompetent PM of all time and also just a truly awful person. Labour must love her getting another parade about.

Yes!

Ask the Tory party members who voted for her over Sunak. Whatever his problems, he's way better than her (it's a low bar to be sure).

They’re so fucking transparent, they must think we’re stupid. Well 14 years of people voting to be shafted and ruin the country seems to suggest they might have a point - although an electoral system that didn't award power to the crew most people didn't vote for would help of course.