Breaking news: Liz Truss is the next PM

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God help us all.

I can feel the support for independence here in Scotland sky rocketing now!

Ffs.
If we thought the world was laughing at us with Boris, they're going to be rolling about the floor over Truss. The Tories needed to choose someone serious and statesmanlike. They completely blew it.

I mean it was gonna be a Tory PM anyway so I had no hopes to begin with. All I can do now is move back to Scotland and hope for independence to come.

Teresa May was head and shoulders above the rest at the time (in my opinion), took the job as a poisoned chalice, did the job to the best of her abilities (despite all the doubting Thomas's and carping) and went quite happily (or was she ousted?) when she got the chance. I always felt a bit sorry for Teresa to be honest - worked as contractor in CS at the time and she wasn't well liked there... Always recall seeing her at some sporting event was it after she got out, having fun and drinking and quite simply looking pleased to be out of there...

Ah but apparently it won't happen until after the next GE. It will be in the manifesto though. I read she plans to keep people sweet by freezing energy bills, then when they all forgive the Tories and vote for her at the next GE will see that as a mandate to scrap the directive.

This is a terrible day, can't stand her. Really think the whole country is fucked.

We need a GE to vote her out and the whole Tories out.

Remember when Trump got elected, and people thought it was the end of the world. Didn't happen.

A lot of fear mongering on here, let's just see how it unfolds before we talk of the end of the world!

If she's serious about scrapping the NI protocol, I fear for the people of NI.

Although the resultant legal shenanigans about breaching the GFA will be interesting.

How ridiculous.

Nope only under Boris

but you were happy for Boris to remain?

She is a WEF Puppet, expect more of the same

Can anyone please link me to something that sets out Liz Truss' intentions with regards to labour laws and workers' rights? I've tried myself, but all I can find are various articles that are called something along the lines of 'Liz Truss urged to come clean on workers' rights which aren't particularly insightful or helpful.

Has anything been set in stone or is this speculation?

I think that was the case with May too.

Appoint someone expendable to deal with the shit so that the old boys can keep their reputation/legacy clean.

It was pretty dreadful and Trump fucked up plenty of stuff! I personally want the bar set higher than 'not the end of the world'.

In many ways Trump set the US back decades.

You only need a passing interest in politics to know that Truss is more than capable of doing the same to the UK.

We've had 4 prime ministers in 6 years. It could soon be 5 in 7 years. That is not the symptom of a politically healthy, happy country.

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.

Going to hell in a hand basket of cheese it seems…

Yes absolutely. I thought this very ill advised (which suits me fine) as she needs to appeal to the people who have moved away from the Tories in the last year i.e. the people who would no longer support Johnson. So quite a weird section.

Maybe she's smarter than we give her credit for and expects us to do the maths?

Boris, you got Brexit done which was a total disaster. You crushed Jeremy Corbyn, which wasn't difficult you rolled out the vaccine which doesn't really work. And you stood up to Vladimir Putin so you can blame him for the current crisis and take zero responsibility. You were admired from Kyiv to Carlisle. Key word being WERE hehehe love ya Boris babe xxx

She wants to scrap EU working directive and introduce US working conditions- think 2 weeks max paid holiday, 60 hour weeks, 6 week maternity pay and no paternity pay. This will apparently grow the economy and help make the rich richer.

Surely our high childcare costs would scupper that one - the USA has slightly fewer working mothers and spends much less overall on childcare than UK.

That could easily back fire meaning some retire before they want as can't do those hours and force more mothers' out the workforce thus reducing the working tax paying population even more. I also think it would be a massive vote loser.

I'm not hopeful but it's possible some of the more crazy shit's been appealing to very small and not representative electorate and she'll back pedal like mad - but leaked cabinet looks bad and the lack of immediate energy plan doesn't re-assure.

Please elaborate?
How many world wars?
Inflation levels?

I am no fan of his, but by no means did the end of the world predictions come true.

End of world is a turn of phrase by the way, not literal

Incredibly naive post. The GOP is now a madhouse. Trump did incalculable damage to US politics, though of course he didn't happen in a vacuum.

The trouble was that TM over-promised and under-delivered.

ET has held back on specific commitments, so maybe she's had a think about mistakes made by her predecessors and is doing it differently.

Or maybe she doesn't have anything to promise. It is a poisoned chalice she's decided to take on, there's no doubt about it.

I don't envy her position, but I do admire her as a woman operating in a man's world, so damning her before she's even done 24 hours in post is a shitty thing to do IMO. I actually hope she proves the doubters wrong.