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?

It's a shocking but unsurprising indictment of our country that with all the issues we face, we are paying people to go fucking about with fucking swords. What a load of shit.

I heard that all ex prime ministers in UK are entitled to £150,000 per annum for life. Apparently there was a campaign at Westminster to prevent Ms Truss from receiving it, hope she is entitled to nothing.

Nearly all the sane and decent ones were driven out by BJ- remember he removed the whip from dozens of them when they tried to stop him proroguing Parliament, and then I think had a lot of them deselected at the 2019 election, or they saw the writing on the wall and quit.

She’s lost the plot. She shared a stage with Steve Bannon the other week. STEVE BANNON. What…was Tommy Robinson not available that day?!?!

We’re not, are we? Mordaunt is paid to be an MP, the fucking about with a sword was a once in 70 years add on to her duties.

The far into the game, the propriety or otherwise of a serving elected UK politician actively campaigning for a (potential) candidate in another democracy should be a national scandal.

Farage and Johnson - not being elected - have a fig leaf.

Personally I think we'd solve a fucktonne of problems if people who aren't elected don't get a platform*. Certainly not on the BBC.

*I could probably state it a little clearer.

that's my brain getting mixed up!

However, she still won and it makes me wonder how. Why didn't they vote for Rishi Sunak back then? I know it wasn't a landslide for her , but people still thought she'd make a better PM.
Not people but people in the Conservative Party, They thought she'd be easier to control than Sunak.

One way of looking at the Truss days, is that they were a Tory punishment for the whole UK as a result of daring not to pick Rishi, who may have been the "correct" candidate they wanted all along.

I feel so sad for the Queen that the last photograph of her was shaking hands with Liz Truss.

I once read an article in the Sunday Times about Truss' time as Foreign Secretary. She came across as self-absorbed and totally batshit. Apparently she was always arranging photo shoots with her as the star. I remember a particularly hilarious photo of her on top of a tank doing a Margaret Thatcher.

Sunak got some of his backers to support Truss because he fancied his chances against her rather than Mordaunt. That's how she got on the ballot.

Truss is utterly delusional. Maybe she is an alcoholic. Her refusal to take any responsibility, blame everyone else and sense of victimhood would make sense.

Amazon have limited reviews to only verified purchases. However a few got in quickly. The 5 star one has got to be a friend of her's though!

https://amzn.eu/d/363Ci7r

It's tempting to jailbreak the Kindle version and email a copy to every household in the UK. After all we effectively bankrolled it. And then some.

Alternatively wait 24 hours for it to appear in charity shops. Assuming it can level a trestle table.

The thing is, about the suggestion that's it seems cruel to watch, it's not as if she was held at gun point for the interview and we all had to go to the Dark Web to view. This was on the BBC's Newscast.

In the clip she looks like she's been propped up. Which is odd. But maybe that's how she looks when she's relaxed?

The woman used to be a staunch Lib Dem. Until she realised it wouldn’t help her political aspirations. How you move from that to Trumpist is beyond belief. She stands for absolutely nothing and no one except herself and should be roundly ignored.

The sight and sound of her actually triggers something visceral inside me. I can’t help feeling she might be a host body for an alien parasite.

No-one should be twatting around with stupid fucking swords at all. There is just no need.

She seems to me like someone playing a part - role-playing a successful politician until she actually believes the make-believe. Not only did she copy the Thatcher tank thing (mentioned above) but the Thatcher blouses and handbag.

PM wasn't twatting around with swords. She was taking part in a solemn state ceremony and did it very well.

It's utterly ridiculous. It's the 21st Century for goodness sake, not the 1500s.

You do realise we live in a hereditary monarchy, don't you ?

You say that like it’s a good thing. I’m not particularly impressed with the 21st century so far. And I love a bit of Ruritanian ceremonial.

@Jovacknockowitch , it was a state ceremony regardless of what you or I think of it.
My opinion of hereditary monarchy or of Ms Mordaunt's politics is not relevant; she had a role to perform and she did a good job of it.
It wasn't twatting around with swords.

She herself seems to think this is all some sort of cos-play.

In her book she describes the experience of resigning as prime minister after just 49 days in charge as "Just another dramatic moment in a very strange film in which I had somehow been cast"

It wasn't twatting around with swords.

Oh yes it was !