AIBU to say that Liz Truss didn't answer 1 bloody question

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Just watched Liz Truss and she didn't answer 1 bloody question properly she kept repeating the same sentences .

Ken Dodd used to sing about that ... "Hap penis , hap penis it's the only argument that I possess"

I think she needs to book a removal van! Theresa May was bad enough destroying the Police Service but Liz Truss is worse beyond words. An 8 minute press conference, it appeared a very poor performance. A general election is the only way for the country to decide. Larry the cat could do a better job!

'politicians never answer questions' - Some politicians are better are seeming to answer a question or intelligently see where the landmines are and navigate around them. Gove sometimes and Hunt on R4 Today today are examples. The issue here is that she is on such rocky ground with her MPs that every appalling performance leads to existential thoughts by the people she needs.

Hunt was on LBC this morning - whilst not a fan - he can talk a good talk and has reasonable arguments. It makes me sad how much we have lost post-Brexit of a rational discourse amongst our leaders who surprisingly we want to lead.

It is impossible to discuss Liz Truss without another cock up.

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Does anyone actually know why she was elected?

She kissed enough arses and promised to look after enough rich people’s private interests to get ‘elected’ as party leader.
She was also elected as an MP in a safe seat where they’d vote for a dog turd if it had a blue rosette on it.
She reminds me of some of the shit, overpromoted middle managers I’ve come across in my career. Completely incompetent but deluded by her status, Dunning-Kruger effect in action.

Over-promotion. Remember a friend complaining about an incompetent colleague 'and she's just been offered promotion'! Truss is prime example of 'can't sack them, only way to get them out of this department is to promote them and inflict them on someone else'. Look where it can take you eventually😖

Maybe she was elected because she was/is easy to influence. Article in the Guardian last Saturday saying that bankers and hedge-fund managers bankrolled her campaign. So hence the mystery of the 1p off top tax and cap removed from bankers' bonuses, seemingly out of the blue. Similar story with Boris, basically taking bribes. I'm sorry to say it but she is corrupt. But I don't like any of the others any more than in do her. Maybe Rishi.

@SerendipityJane Well played!

She is reported to be worth £12 million - she got to have the top job even if only for a brief time and after office she will easily get to double or triple her money. She might even have an after-dinner "oops I shrunk the kids" schtick and develop some 'appeal'. She's 'won' now, whatever happens, is just a shame all the rest of us have to lose and keep losing as they bring our country down.

We've all been gaslighted big time by this bunch . She signed off the fiscal budget , then passed the buck when people didn't like it and fired her friend ! She has the morals and ethics of a nat.

What would you like to see the government do about mortgages?

The interest rates went up because of the fiscal event ! Just as predicted by Rishi Sunak in August.

Elected by echoing the prejudices of the conservative base - 'workers are lazy even if economically it's the wrong perspective about UK plc.

What do about mortgages - perhaps not blithely make a bunch of decisions that lead to the markets anticipating higher interest rates than previously, mortgage providers to reflect those in their mortgage offers and which require, amongst other things the BoE to raise those rates more than they otherwise would have to. In the car, if someone is applying a brake and someone is borrowing billions to weigh on the accelerator, the brake person is predicted to press the brake harder'.

I would have liked them not to be so bloody irresponsible and caused all this uncertainty. Then the rates wouldn't have gone up.
They were told exactly what would happen and it happened. So now whatever she has done to help with fuel mortgages are going up.

I would like them not to have caused interest rates to go up with their disastrously insane mini budget.

She's hopeless, and it's not going to improve anytime soon.

Hunt was talking about people having to pay higher taxes, cuts to public spending, now including the previously exempt health and defence budgets, , and more difficult times arriving. He refused to commit to raising benefits with the cost of living.

On top of that, the BofE have virtually confirmed that interest rates will rise again in November. The only query is by how much.

We need a GE to try and sort this mess out, not a never ending Tory Game of Thrones.🙄

Austerity , I just hope that people reject it because last time we just sucked it up and this time it's just too depressing to even think about, but they will sell it as the answer to paying back the debts and covid and the war and everything apart from their own incompetence

She reminds me of a Thunderbirds puppet. The terrifying thing is that she had disaster written all over her. Unelected and totally unelectable.

Lorrymum She reminds me of a Thunderbirds puppet. The terrifying thing is that she had disaster written all over her. Unelected and totally unelectable.

You summed it up in 2 lines thank you

At least he didn't reference his plan for fuel prices.

I didn't understand the exaggerated puzzled look as she tried to find someone to ask a question. The room was full of journalists, what was she actually doing?

Trying to find somebody who might not try to eat her alive. It was hilarious. I can't stop watching it!