Breaking news: Liz Truss is the next PM

[ErmagerdtheQuern]

God help us all.

My biggest concern is that she is not a leader. She’s an unpopular opportunist who came through as a ‘not-Rishi’ candidate.

She will do nothing, is unable to do anything, about the constant Tory party infighting that is destroying the country right now.

The state is on its knees. Anyone who has tried to get a GP appointment or get help for their child at school, who is seeing hosepipe bans while water companies can’t stop leaks, who is trying to access new benefits as a result of a life change etc. Energy bills are the highest profile issue but people are desperate.

And the party in government can’t look beyond how much it still cares about who voted to leave the EU six years ago.

The party membership has elected a leader with no charisma, no energy, no unifying plan, and who polls suggest is very unpopular in the country.

I was no fan of Thatcher but she would be turning in her grave at what has become of her party, the country and the pygmy poundshop knock-off that has taken her place in the annals of history.

All those claiming to know what Liz is going to do are talking out of their back sides.

She has not even had chance to sort out a cabinet until tomorrow and not official been put in place by the queen yet. Typical MN Woke lefty's all rabidly banging crap out on their keyboards wildly as she is not a labor leader.

Never read as much completer and utter shit as posted in this thread 😂

Her biggest problem is that only a 3rd of the membership voted for her & wasn't the MPs choice either... so she has no mandate with the party.

I would imagine she expected to do better amongst the membership. It was always likely that anyone who ended up on the ballot would be running against Rishi, and she did poll quite favourably compared to him back when the MPs were still whittling down the candidates. It's interesting that we didn't see that fully reflected in the voting numbers.

Agree though, it's a real problem for her. And to that I'd add that a lot, perhaps a majority but at least a significant minority of Tories really didn't want to get rid of Johnson at all and are still working through some anger and grief there. So whoever followed him would also have to deal with the possibility of being blamed for that in a roundabout way, even if they had stayed loyal. I don't think we can call yet how big a deal this is going to be, but there's definitely going to be an element of This Wasn't Supposed To Happen bubbling beneath the surface.

I'm damning her for almost 15 years of poorly thought through, right-wing, rich-favouring policies.

This autumn there will be massive street demonstrations like the Poll Tax in the 90s where anger will spill out onto the streets coalescing around the Enough is Enough campaign amongst many others.

You sound about 16.

Please God!

What makes you think we're talking out of our backsides when these are all things she's publicly advocated for?

Typical MN Woke lefty's all rabidly banging crap out on their keyboards wildly as she is not a labor leader.

Someone's furiously thumbing through their Big Book of Tired Tory Clichés

Calm down. If her policies are up in the air it's because she's the one who's said bugger all about them, apart from tax cuts she inevitably u-turn on when the reality of navigating a cost of living crisis becomes clear.

We are only going by the bull crap she's come out since mid June
It's enough to know we are all going to suffer
I'm cheering on the Scots to go for independence! Go for it , because the tories won't care and don't care about anyone but themselves and their cronies and making people poorer. The Tory way.
Even Phillip Hammond said it yesterday, her plans are bonkers !
Only he sugar coated it

The shits in our rivers and seas, not this thread. Cold War Steve's acid take on the "Coronation".

And BJ only hung on soong because everyone was scared to do something during covid.

It's going to be a tough few years

She's going to make Kier Starmer look like a dream option!

Probably it's about getting rid of the Working Time Directive which was an EU law. Other than that, there are no facts to substantiate what her actual plans are.

people are just leaping on top of the sensationalist media and jumping to inaccurate, non-fact based conclusions before the end of her first day. Then proliferating it on social media - so now it suddenly becomes fact.

I don’t think Liz has any idea of what Liz is going to do.

That’s a lot of words to say absolutely fuck all. Internet has a carbon foot print you know.

She doesn’t need to, she’ll do as she’s told.

Ugh.

The most important point in this entire thread.

I'm surprised she's in mauve
It's an unlucky colour

Even her dad was negative about her!

She has been going up and down the country for the last 8 weeks, she has promised tax cuts to grow the economy, she wont do more hand outs for energy bills and she wont give help to everyone.

She says she wants a smaller state, lower taxes and more personal responsibility.

She has come a long way from when she was a LibDem and a fervent remainer, so knowing what she will do next is probably very different to judge.