Liz Truss - what's going on there?

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Just watched her recent interview with Chris Mason on Newscast. Something is most definitely 'off.' Not just what she says, but her hand and facial expressions are peculiar - as if she's possibly medicated or drunk? She is in total denial - no surprise there - but just so odd. It's actually quite disturbing to watch. AIBU?

2023:
‘According to reports, Liz Truss net worth in 2023 is estimated to be £8.4 million (or around $13 million). ‘

I think it's called the Dunning Kruger effect. Where a person overestimates their ability. Here it's coupled to narcissism and mild sociopathy. She cannot empathise with the people she harmed to gain insight into where it all went wrong, and has developed a persecution complex to protect her sense of self worth. It's comical but equally frightening.

I have it on good authority that she is a (barely) functioning alcoholic.

The alternative was Sunak, and look how that's turned out!!!

Ah OK. I'd remembered some earlier polls which had Badenoch as favourite, but I've just had a (very!) quick google it seems that didn't last too long and she was overtaken by Mordaunt.

Well it’s definitely not worse, is it?

When you look at the people who rise to the top of the Conservative party it makes you realise what a bunch of odd, venal, false, self serving, flawed, detached from reality weirdos they are.

Truss, Mogg, Anderson, Johnson, Sunak, Braverman, Patel.......the list is endless really.

In any other organisation these people would be the person in the corner who bears a grudge, smells of damp cardigan and has a 'private' drawer full of out of date biscuits and coupons clipped from the Daily Mail. In 30 years they've never been promoted, are mostly under warning for voicing sexist, racist opinions and haven't been invited to after work drinks since 1997.

Well are she was very publicly and unceremoniously dumped out of her job as PM she had two possible explanations to mentally take on board:

A) it was because she was way out of her depth, incompetent and not up to the job or

B) it was all a conspiracy against her, she was right all along and the establishment was out to get her because she was right wing / a woman / insert any excuse here.

She clearly took option B, the problem with this is once you go down the conspiracy path you end up getting more and more nutty. Scroll forward a few years and she will probably be found shouting angrily at pigeons in the local park.

People should not even buy her book. The woman is a disgrace, who has cost people dear.

I heard she got a £1,500 advance for her book.
Puts her right up there with ‘Basket-weaving for beginners’. 😀

Agree. They are all such appalling people. Every time I see Suella Braverman I am appalled she has a public platform. Liz Truss, Priti Patel, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Boris Johnston to. Do they think we have the memory of a goldfish? I mean Rishi Sunak is appalling too, but the rest of them are in a different league.

Deranged.
Full stop.

I saw her this morning talking about the new anti smoking law. I thought she looked and sounded unwell, puffy faced.

I understand it.
To protect her vanity she had to blame everyone else.
Now she truly believes everyone is wrong except her.

I am sure there are Tory party members in this forum who voted for her.
Please can you tell us why, I am genuinely interested.

You're quite right.

Braverman was third rate barrister without talent going nowhere. The Conservative Party transformed her into The Right Honourable Suella Braverman MP KC, ex holder of a Great Office of State.

Anderson was an embittered Labour activist who couldn't achieve promotion for his lack of ability. The Conservative Party made him deputy chair.

It's a rehabilitation scheme for oddballs, weirdos and the permanently angry.

I wish I had your confidence. Some Tories backed her and they seem to be still backing her. Just like they are backing the Suella Braverman who "cried with joy" at her Ruanda plan. It's a mistake to underestimate the stupidity of some people.

This would make sense if true.

I woke up this morning and it suddenly hit me that this latest rush of Tory PMs all seem to be doing the job as a side hussle. Theresa May was the last one who seemed to consider it a full time job.

This recent shower are like the person in the office who is always at the dentist. If they're not churning out a book, making a couple of (tax-efficient?) million out of their family business or choosing wallpaper they're fitting underfloor heating in their stable block or selecting appropriate cosplay for a visit to an over-budget government construction project.

They have to squeeze running the country into the couple of hours between speaking at CPAC and writing their Daily Mail column.

Presumably because the more racist Tory party members didn’t want a brown PM.

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It's a rehabilitation scheme for oddballs, weirdos and the permanently angry.

Perfectly put.

That just goes to show how the Tories have lost or kicked out all their talented, competent, sensible people.

"I heard she got a £1,500 advance for her book."

Indeed - that is what she has declared under her obligations to Parliament to declare any outside income. Whether there is more to come, or if her income is dependent on sales, is not known.

This might confirm the suspicion that she's actually a hopeless negotiator, as witnessed by the appalling deals that she signed with Australia and New Zealand - deals that will severely damage much of British agriculture whilst providing a net gain in trade of next to nothing for the UK.

Truss represents a largely rural constituency. It is said that if you stand in Thetford Forest on a still, moonlit night, you can hear the Australians laughing their arses off at the concessions that they got from Truss without even asking for them.

MsLuxLisbon · Today 10:19

I have it on good authority that she is a (barely) functioning alcoholic.

its possible that her diabetes is poorly controlled, the one can be mistaken for the other....not defending her though.

Does Liz Truss have diabetes? I know Theresa May does, so perhaps that's a mix up?