Liz Truss

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Am I being unreasonable to start to question Liz Truss' sanity?

OK I've put this in Aibu but it's a serious question, she honestly comes across as if she doesn't have a foot in reality and, as a former PM and current politician, it's a serious & genuine question.

She believes an extremist Islamic party is at risk of winning a local election, she believes Trump-oh-please-Mr-Putin-feel-free-to-bomb-Nato-states is the single best thing for the safety of the West and whenever she's asked a question which she can't or doesn't want to answer she just acts like nothing has been said and does this weird smile into nothingness.

There's calculated political moves to extend your career and then there's the strange machinations and declarations which we see from her, it's just.....so bizarre.

I'm just beginning to wonder if she's living in some sort of fantasy-world.

If someone can shed some rational light onto her actions then please do because I'm at a loss!

I'm more surprised that you're only just starting to question her sanity... It's been plain to see for quite some time now. Pork markets

I think she is in the 'gollum' phase now, the ring (aka her brief time as pm) has destroyed her and she is now controlled by her cravings for power

It appears she's playing a character from some weird political satire

She’s chasing the mental money now, and in the US there’s plenty of it.

If you think about it, she moved into Downing St, only to move out again a few weeks later. In those few weeks, she almost crashed the economy. Probably, she hadn't even unpacked everything. I think she's now having a breakdown of some sort. She went from PM to laughing stock in the space of a month. She appears very odd indeed. I think she just needs acknowledgement from anywhere. She is desperate and will say anything. Hard to believe she actually voted Remain in the referendum - now she's grinning like the Cheshire Cat with the US Far Right loons. She appears truly unhinged. God knows what she'll do next.

She’s cost me an extra £600 a month on my mortgage! 🤬

She had me in no doubt of her madness after the cheese fiasco.

She appears genuinely barking.

Op - I agree with everything you said. Also didn't call out Tommy Robinson being referred to as a hero...

Here we are😆

That pause after the word cheese, it's like the information is slowly downloading!

I know some people who have worked with her.

Having seen her behind the scenes, they do not think she is a mentally competent person. The phrase "absolutely barking mad" may have been used.

YABU because it's taken you this long to come to this conclusion.

@Eve she's cost me an extra £400 so I feel your pain. I don't think she believes half of what she comes out with I just think it's affording her a voice on the international stage that she might not otherwise have (to the same extent anyway).

Tories won't be back in gov any time soon and she will never be in the Cabinet again so it's all about her own personal ambition now. She's placing herself wherever she thinks will afford her the maximum opportunities. Remember she was a Lib Dem originally. She has minimum scruples or party loyalties.

She’s utterly batshit. Her marbles are rolling about all over the floor.

I used to think she just wanted power whatever the cost, but now I do think she's actually lost it.

I was worried everyone would think I was being cruel!

It's not the first time I've thought it, no, but I think questioning someone's sanity is quite a serious thing to do and I've held back from saying my thoughts out loud before!

@drxyz not only is yours a very compassionate reply I think its a valid point. However 'odd' she may be personally it can't have been easy for her....although to me it's appeared as if she was emotionally unaffected by it, she seems to walk through politics as if she's completely separated her personal self from this robotic version of what she thinks a successful politician should be.

How did we end up with so many politicians who happily sell their souls to whatever ideology blows on by?

She is several sandwiches short of a picnic that one.

This. Is. A. Disgrace.

I don’t know if the cheese or the Yorkshire tea comment was worse 🤣

She’s fucking insane.

This is why I was so amazed she got elected to be PM by her party.
I mean, the cheese, the pork markets - anything she was seen to have done before this just showed her in such a weird light. I don't understand how it was anyone voted for her.

she put on a tight black dress, channeled thatcher & the Gammon's eyes were on stalks

Did you not see her opinions on imported cheese? I expect nothing less. Although I suspect that speech started the ball rolling on Brexit and the Madhatters tea party that has become.

She has seriously lost the plot. I have wondered on a number of occasions whether she is unwell.

I feel very sorry for her family, especially her daughters. It must be very painful to watch this all playing out in public.

It’s batshit. She speaks about things which are untrue, fabricated in a way that some of the thickest people in the world believe is true. And it all conforms to a strange tabloidthink view of the world which the thickest people in the world then believe is real. A kind of collective fiction, a deadly political Kayfabe. It looks like those pushing it have been hypnotised or indoctrinated somehow.