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Breaking news: Liz Truss is the next PM

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ErmagerdtheQuern · 05/09/2022 12:44

God help us all.

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antelopevalley · 05/09/2022 15:08

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I had no idea Freddy thought that.
I actually could see the Russian invasion coming, but I read a LOT of news and the warning signs were there. Anyone just reading daily newspapers online or watching the TV news would have had no idea. And why should they? Unless they work for the Foreign Office they have no need to keep a close eye on the situation.

vera99 · 05/09/2022 15:09

For all the woke leftie labour losers who don't know what a woman is Jonathon Pie rips her a new one...

twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1566773151819653120

midgetastic · 05/09/2022 15:09

Yip it's the it's all your own fault brigade are out in force !

Clueless, lacking imagination , and often with a wealthy family nearby

SleeplessInEngland · 05/09/2022 15:09

vera99 · 05/09/2022 15:05

Most unpopular Tory PM ever.

If I was her strategist looking on the bright side I'd say it's not a bad thing to start with rock bottom expectations. But, like a football manager of a failing team, the window to impress people is really small.

MissHavishamsMouldyOldCake · 05/09/2022 15:10

Tory superfans telling us that the energy crisis would be no big deal if only you’d fixed 6 months ago.

And that it’s not an issue for the state if millions of people are unable to pay their bills and if countless businesses are forced to shut up shop.

No big deal. Not the government's problem. All fine.

PlainOldMe80 · 05/09/2022 15:11

Will we still import cheese???

ScarlettnotOHara · 05/09/2022 15:11

Watch her escalate the war in Ukraine and put the UK in the firing line again with Russia . Scary times!

Mummyford · 05/09/2022 15:12

MissHavishamsMouldyOldCake · 05/09/2022 12:56

She also clearly has a strong personal commitment to long awkward pauses when speaking.

Oh those awkward pauses where you can see her desperately trying to think of something to say. 'Data is loading. Please wait'.

Cringesome.

I actually think those are when the 'gormless yet self-congratulatory grin' updates kick in.

MissHavishamsMouldyOldCake · 05/09/2022 15:13

ScarlettnotOHara · 05/09/2022 15:11

Watch her escalate the war in Ukraine and put the UK in the firing line again with Russia . Scary times!

Truss loves a photo opp so will no doubt be aping Johnson and popping over to Kyiv to say 'cooee!' to Zelenskyy.

WatchoRulo · 05/09/2022 15:13

EverydayIsPJday · 05/09/2022 12:53

There's something about less foreign cheese, and 76p to help with the £6k energy bill

pmsl

That's actually more detailed and coherent than anything Truss said during the hustings.

the80sweregreat · 05/09/2022 15:14

A lot of business owners vote conservative.
If they go to the wall , I think they might start to change their minds.
Plus those who didn't receive any help with furlough too. Lots of very unhappy people are around. It's a lot to deal with.
I may not like her much, but I don't envy her.

Tippexy · 05/09/2022 15:16

FreddyHG · 05/09/2022 12:53

Good I see the left leaning Mumsnet already loath her. I think she will do well and our third female pm. Small state please and no bankrupting the country.

Absolutely. It’s clear none of them have read a newspaper this morning because Liz’s plans for tackling the energy bills crisis are discussed in detail.

Isn’t it curious that for such a middle class, property owning, private school attending site, there are so many champagne socialists here? 😉

gnilliwdog · 05/09/2022 15:16

@MissHavishamsMouldyOldCake Poor Zelenskyy, like he doesn't have enough to deal with.

54isanopendoor · 05/09/2022 15:16

PerfectlyPreservedQuagaarWarrior · 05/09/2022 14:41

As far as poor leaders go, you'd have to be going some to fuck up as badly as Boris did to get kicked out. Whatever one actually thinks of him, this is an individual who had an 80 seat majority, had removed nearly all credible opponents within the party and who enjoyed just about the most potent combination of loyalty and fear imaginable from his own parliamentary party. To manage to throw that all away in slightly over two and a half years because of a series of completely unforced idiotic decisions is, whatever you think of him, an absolutely remarkable feat of bad leadership.

It's worth pondering just how bad a rut we're currently in that any PM following this could still seem just as dipshit in comparison.

@PerfectlyPreservedQuagaarWarrior
you have just posted a Perfect Post ( & well worth quoting in appreciation)

SleeplessInEngland · 05/09/2022 15:19

Tippexy · 05/09/2022 15:16

Absolutely. It’s clear none of them have read a newspaper this morning because Liz’s plans for tackling the energy bills crisis are discussed in detail.

Isn’t it curious that for such a middle class, property owning, private school attending site, there are so many champagne socialists here? 😉

A 'champagne socialist' by definition is someone middle class, property owning, and has a private school attending child. The 'liberal elite'.

If you're going for lazy insults at least get them right. 😆

vera99 · 05/09/2022 15:21

@Tippexy not champagne anymore more like Prosecco and from a budget supermarket to boot whilst we furiously tap away at keyboreds (sic).

the80sweregreat · 05/09/2022 15:22

Well, our new PM was once a Lib dem, republican, so being a 'Prosecco socialist ' can't be that bad can it ?

vera99 · 05/09/2022 15:22

Anyway time for an intermission from all this hate, dofs cap tugs forelock.

Breaking news: Liz Truss is the next PM
Notonthestairs · 05/09/2022 15:23

"Absolutely. It’s clear none of them have read a newspaper this morning because Liz’s plans for tackling the energy bills crisis are discussed in detail. "

Did it explain how she was going to pay for it @Tippexy

DahliaDreamer · 05/09/2022 15:24

ErmagerdtheQuern · 05/09/2022 12:44

God help us all.

That's exactly what I said

napody · 05/09/2022 15:24

LakieLady · 05/09/2022 13:51

You can blame the lazy fucker who was supposed to be running the country for that. If he wasn't prepared to do the work, he should have left the job with immediate effect and let the deputy PM do it.

Mind you, didn't Raab stay on holiday in Crete during some crisis that required his attention when he was foreign secretary? So even if Johnson had fucked off, Raab probably wouldn't have stepped up anyway.

Speaking of Raab, he went from having something to say on everything to radio silence the second the leadership contest started. Waiting for him to resurface like an oily turd when he thinks the time is right.

MarieIVanArkleStinks · 05/09/2022 15:25

It's not unfeasible that at some point Boris may be back. The party faithful love him, and if Truss (as is likely) makes them unelectable then they and their voters might conveniently forget about his grandiose entitlement and mendacity.

I have a sinking feeling that the same thing might happen with Trump and we'll then be faced with groundhog day on both sides of the Atlantic. That would certainly make living in these times interesting.

The only positive side to this is that at least the black tongue of Mourdaunt isn't likely to be uttered in Blighty for a goodly while. Hope she's a cautionary tale to other politicians that they'll be held accountable for their views, and can't conveniently discard them when it's expedient and hope people will forget. If you want to chuck women under the bus, own it.

avocadotofu · 05/09/2022 15:25

What. A. Nightmare!

FreyaStorm · 05/09/2022 15:27

I don’t like either, but I would question Rishi’s loyalties, so Truss is best of a bad lot.

the80sweregreat · 05/09/2022 15:30

She's going to borrow borrow borrow / tax cuts.
I hope that those who demean the LP for doing this borrowing historically remember these days and remind the tories who is doing the borrowing ! Then play Phillip Hammond's interview with Sophy Ridge to remind them a bit more. He spoke sense ; Truss is following the economist Patrick Minford and it seems it won't work. Plus to add to her woes , the party is divided again too
Tough times are ahead

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