Bloody hell, we are being governed by an idiot

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Well, I knew that already, but every day she shocks me with the heights her deluded self-confidence goes to

Liz Truss had to be convinced to issue statement amid market turmoil after mini-budget

news.sky.com/story/liz-truss-had-to-be-convinced-to-issue-govt-statement-to-calm-markets-after-meeting-with-chancellor-12706352

As the fine writer and commentator, Rafael Behr wrote today about Labour's electoral chance, It will help that the prime minister is a maniac.

Idiocracy.

Kwarteng is a crook, his mini budget was designed purely to make his hedge fund manager mates millions. He knows he can get away with this because this country is full of ignorant idiots who will vote Tory no matter what.

Truss is just gormless and clueless.

How we got to this stage is a testament to the average British persons attitude. Well done us.

Alastair Campbell says that Kwarteng has been heard to say he doesn't care if this tanks the pound, because it will come up again. If that is true, the man is economically illiterate. Even I know that there is absolutely nothing inevitable about a fallen pound rising again. Hell, I'm old enough to remember when the dollar was at around 25p - strangely, the pound has never shown too much sign of climbing back to similar levels.

I have never felt so despondent about All of our elected representatives in Parliament as I do now. All of them.

He has no loyalty to this country, you saw it when he was laughing at the Queen's funeral. He doesn't care about the pound, only his own gain.

If I didn't have to live here I'd be laughing. She's in her seventh working day in the job and already looks like she might not make it til Christmas. It's an absolute farce.

I think they mean before the next GE 😂

It was somebody else and apparently Kwarteng was heard saying that when sterling tanked when BREXIT happened

Says everything about the Tory party that the only alternative anyone can come up with is the compulsive liar whose colleagues won't work with him.

Please someone shed light on why she was elected?

Corbyn's 2019 manifesto makes me so wistful and sad. He was PSYCHIC! And the right wing rags libelled him and delivered this shitshow horror show we are now living through

I was listening to radio 4 this morning and Martha Kearney was being so aggressive to Wes Steering the shadow health sec. I wish the fucking media did that to the tories- then we wouldnt be in the dire straits we're in now. DO YOUR FUCKING JOBS,media!!! 🤬

She wore a big fur hat and some nostalgic oldies thought she was the second Thatcher coming.

What is really worrying me is the rumours that the government is thinking about helping out homeowners struggling with high interest rates - who the f**k is going to pay for that?!?

Tim Harford (economist) was at Oxford with Truss studying mind-bending logic structures. It's not true that Truss is stupid in any usual sense of that word.

I have a theory about why Truss makes such choices she does, MNers won't like my theory. My hunch doesn't matter, I suppose. Don't think she's thick just... in her own space. She's like many MNers in holding her own opinions in very high regard.

Truss studied logic?! Mind bending logic?! Sorry, still thick.

I reckon her self confidence to ability ratio is pretty far out of alignment tbh. And to think people vote Tory because they don't trust labour with the economy?

What is really worrying me is the rumours that the government is thinking about helping out homeowners struggling with high interest rates - who the fk is going to pay for that?!?

My god are they going to borrow more off the taxpayer, while cutting taxes from taxpayers while giving taxes back to some taxpayers?

Exactly! In the job 20 days and 12 of those were on hold because the queen died. So literally 8 days in she manages to crash the economy. Amazing.

I'd LOVE to know what her dad thinks.

What rumours?

That would be impossible.

I initially thought they were idiots and making stupid mistakes.

That they would do a crap job for a few fee months but try and keep the electorate sweet for the last 12 month before the next election.

Now after this last budget, I think they've given up. They have realised they wont win the next election and just want to make as much money out of the tax payer as they can while they are in power.

They are a bunch of crooks and literally channeling as much money from the taxpayer as they can, in the limited months they have left in power, in front of our very eyes.

I never understood the appeal of her either. I feel the tories are making sacrificial lambs out of the prime ministers - using a politician to push through unpopular decisions so that when they lose popularity, they can blame an individual rather than themselves. Truss is going to be completely hung out to dry.

The Tory party is currently controlled by a small cabal of Ukippers. That set of MPs that make up the ERG/CRG. They are complete psychopaths but you can’t really get elected without their support. Truss said everything they wanted to hear - tax cuts, no more lockdowns ever, trigger article 16, no windfall tax

Did wonder whether she was just doing that to get elected. The answer to that is clearly no.

I suppose a universal truth is that very clever people can make terrible decisions, and fairly thick people can make overwhelmingly good decisions.

This would be ok if it was choosing who to screw with but not when you’re supposed to be a PM.