| Seriously though, how on earth did Truss end up PM? 19:57 - Oct 14 with 2368 views | Dubtractor |
It was obviously to absolutely anyone that she was ill suited beyond all comprehension and would be miles out of her depth, and yet about a third of the parliamentary party, who will have seen at close hand what her skill set is, somehow decided to back her.
Then following that, the members, who you'd assume follow politics to at least some degree, compounded that remarkable decision by voting for her.
What on earth have these people seen that made them think that Truss was in any way capable of being PM? I can only assume that the parliamentary party viewed her as a useful idiot, someone to try and push through the policies that they knew would be unpopular?
I find it genuinely mental that we've ended up here, no doubt a laughing stock around the globe, with a PM that makes Johnson look half competent. |  |
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| Seriously though, how on earth did Truss end up PM? on 20:02 - Oct 14 with 1798 views | Fixed_It |
They (we) have gone from an out of touch, scruffy buffoon with questionable morals and integrity, to someone with the intellectual capabilty of a gnat amd with even less personality. How did they let this happen when all sane people could see it ages ago? |  |
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| Seriously though, how on earth did Truss end up PM? on 20:04 - Oct 14 with 1787 views | ericclacton |
She got the job winning a raffle.
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| Seriously though, how on earth did Truss end up PM? on 20:15 - Oct 14 with 1753 views | Swansea_Blue |
You’ve got to assume that all her backing MPs don’t realise how out of her depth she is. Maybe they’re so deluded they’re believing their own nonsensical hype? I don’t why else they’d support her.
The nominations were in the main all rubbish, so I suppose another alternative could be that anyone with any sense had the sense to steer clear of the whole thing. |  |
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| Seriously though, how on earth did Truss end up PM? on 20:20 - Oct 14 with 1738 views | HARRY10 |
Not too difficult to grasp.
A combination of the bloaters incompetence and brexit had left the country with a huge mess to clear. With rising inflation it was only ever going to be a job that an idiot would take
...........the rest you can work out
To add I would suggest you note how many of the 'sensible' part of the Tory party stayed, and have done since, out of things. Very few have put their heads above the parapet, and I have no doubt will not want to be much seen when finally the Tories get the long overdue hammering in the polls at a GE.
Then will begin the rebuilding. Out will go fruitcakes such as Braverman, Badenoch, Dorries and Rees-Mogg. In fact, I would suggest that there will be an even firmer grip on prospective Parliamentary candidates to ensure that nutters like the above are excluded, and upskirters like Chope are packed off to the Dunbigoting Retirement Home.
The only hope they have is that not too many of the 'sensible' ones lose their seats. While I have no believe that the current polls will be anywhere near the GE results, as it stands the Tories would lose all but 3 seats. Their figure of 19% has NEVER been seen since there were formed centuries back.
These polls are little more than a snapshot of voters thoughts, rather than anything held on until a GE. But far from recovering the Tory vote is still sliding. They have to find some way of removing this speaking clock PM without causing a GE.
Should be fun to watch, whilst huddled round a candle *
* hopefully the temperature won't drop just yet, so we have to light it |  | | |
| Seriously though, how on earth did Truss end up PM? on 20:25 - Oct 14 with 1721 views | Keno |
I know of one tory member who voted for her rather than and yes this is his actual quote 'the man who looks like an immigrant" |  |
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| Seriously though, how on earth did Truss end up PM? on 21:44 - Oct 14 with 1608 views | chicoazul |
There was no way the members would ever vote for a person of Asian descent to run the party. |  |
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| Seriously though, how on earth did Truss end up PM? on 22:16 - Oct 14 with 1570 views | Guthrum |
'... the members, who you'd assume follow politics to at least some degree ...' - Dangerous assumption.
They are often people with fixed ideas about how they think things should be. Those ideas may not actually conform to reality. They are more likely to be dogmatic theorists than deep students of political history, economics, etc. Above all, they are tribalists, who believe the grouping to which they belong (and especially their own faction within that group) are the most, the only correct ones. With the sovreign remedy for all the country's ills, if only everyone else would let them enact it.
This affliction is not, by the way, limited to the Conservative Party*.
* Edit: But they are currently the ones letting it run riot. [Post edited 14 Oct 2022 22:18]
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| Seriously though, how on earth did Truss end up PM? on 22:21 - Oct 14 with 1549 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
The split in the party was between hard-line fundamental Tory policy of full-on tax cuts and shrink the state as fast as possible and a more moderate version of it. The former wanted someone they felt they can control, and Truss is that. This meant the party members had a choice between the two. They will generally choose the most fundamentally hard-line Tory policy as that is what they are all about.
The problem is with the party of Government rather than with Cameron, May, Johnson or Truss. |  |
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| Seriously though, how on earth did Truss end up PM? on 22:29 - Oct 14 with 1543 views | Lord_Lucan |
You have no idea how much this is depressing me. I posted on here when she was an outsider that she would get the gig, it was obvious. I don't really think that Rishi lost because he was brown, it was because he stabbed Boris and because he was going to raise taxes.
Rishi and Truss loyalists engineered Mourdant out of it as they knew that neither of them could beat her head to head.
It is ridiculous that the vote is put to about 150k blue rinsers, it's off the bloody scale!
Mother is not a member but is 100% Conservative with a big C and I told her that Truss was a joke and that she didn't have a brain. She then asked why I thought this and I asked her what of her policies she liked and she said that she didn't know of any of her plans and policies but that she liked the look of her.
It is a big clusterfeck and we are doomed. We simply have to pray that she is nudged out. |  |
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| Seriously though, how on earth did Truss end up PM? on 22:44 - Oct 14 with 1497 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Seriously though, how on earth did Truss end up PM? on 22:29 - Oct 14 by Lord_Lucan |
You have no idea how much this is depressing me. I posted on here when she was an outsider that she would get the gig, it was obvious. I don't really think that Rishi lost because he was brown, it was because he stabbed Boris and because he was going to raise taxes.
Rishi and Truss loyalists engineered Mourdant out of it as they knew that neither of them could beat her head to head.
It is ridiculous that the vote is put to about 150k blue rinsers, it's off the bloody scale!
Mother is not a member but is 100% Conservative with a big C and I told her that Truss was a joke and that she didn't have a brain. She then asked why I thought this and I asked her what of her policies she liked and she said that she didn't know of any of her plans and policies but that she liked the look of her.
It is a big clusterfeck and we are doomed. We simply have to pray that she is nudged out. |
How is the Lucan inflation tracker looking Allan? |  |
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| Seriously though, how on earth did Truss end up PM? on 22:44 - Oct 14 with 1495 views | Churchman |
| Seriously though, how on earth did Truss end up PM? on 20:15 - Oct 14 by Swansea_Blue |
You’ve got to assume that all her backing MPs don’t realise how out of her depth she is. Maybe they’re so deluded they’re believing their own nonsensical hype? I don’t why else they’d support her.
The nominations were in the main all rubbish, so I suppose another alternative could be that anyone with any sense had the sense to steer clear of the whole thing. |
They must have known she was hopeless. It was as common knowledge as Chris Grayling (Transport Minister) needed a handler - and he couldn’t even swivel his eyes as well as JRM and the ERG morons. |  | | |
| Seriously though, how on earth did Truss end up PM? on 22:47 - Oct 14 with 1488 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Seriously though, how on earth did Truss end up PM? on 22:29 - Oct 14 by Lord_Lucan |
You have no idea how much this is depressing me. I posted on here when she was an outsider that she would get the gig, it was obvious. I don't really think that Rishi lost because he was brown, it was because he stabbed Boris and because he was going to raise taxes.
Rishi and Truss loyalists engineered Mourdant out of it as they knew that neither of them could beat her head to head.
It is ridiculous that the vote is put to about 150k blue rinsers, it's off the bloody scale!
Mother is not a member but is 100% Conservative with a big C and I told her that Truss was a joke and that she didn't have a brain. She then asked why I thought this and I asked her what of her policies she liked and she said that she didn't know of any of her plans and policies but that she liked the look of her.
It is a big clusterfeck and we are doomed. We simply have to pray that she is nudged out. |
You don't think Rishi lost because he is brown, but it must be difficult to the one who looks most like Thatcher and/or Boris. The party membership is made up of a combination who want tax cuts for the richest and those who adore Thatcher and Johnson. | |
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| Seriously though, how on earth did Truss end up PM? on 22:50 - Oct 14 with 1483 views | Lord_Lucan |
| Seriously though, how on earth did Truss end up PM? on 22:44 - Oct 14 by BanksterDebtSlave |
How is the Lucan inflation tracker looking Allan? |
No one understands a bloody thing.
Everyone continues to pipe on about energy prices but the main reason why inflation is here to stay is because of the state of the bloody £ against the $
I'm a bit out of all the news circle at the moment as we are as busy as sh1t and we are actually in a genuine meltdown - hooever, I just had a look at the news and I see that the fecking cretinous Truss is now looking at U turning on mothballing the corporation tax rise
What a fecking idiot she is. | |
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| Seriously though, how on earth did Truss end up PM? on 22:51 - Oct 14 with 1470 views | HARRY10 |
| Seriously though, how on earth did Truss end up PM? on 22:29 - Oct 14 by Lord_Lucan |
You have no idea how much this is depressing me. I posted on here when she was an outsider that she would get the gig, it was obvious. I don't really think that Rishi lost because he was brown, it was because he stabbed Boris and because he was going to raise taxes.
Rishi and Truss loyalists engineered Mourdant out of it as they knew that neither of them could beat her head to head.
It is ridiculous that the vote is put to about 150k blue rinsers, it's off the bloody scale!
Mother is not a member but is 100% Conservative with a big C and I told her that Truss was a joke and that she didn't have a brain. She then asked why I thought this and I asked her what of her policies she liked and she said that she didn't know of any of her plans and policies but that she liked the look of her.
It is a big clusterfeck and we are doomed. We simply have to pray that she is nudged out. |
"It is ridiculous that the vote is put to about 150k blue rinsers, it's off the bloody scale! "
It is worse than ridiculous because among those members are those who are not entitled to vote in UK elections but can be members of the Tory Party - those who are foreign nationals and those who are aged 15-17, and I am not sure what actually age checks are made.
Any new PM would have recognised the urgent need was to ensure homes and businesses could continue to meet their energy bills. Take a look at what the NHS needed to get through the winter. Then address the care home crisis. Take the governments foot off paying rail workers.
Understand that any government is there to reserve the people not the other way round. A sort of 'steady as she goes'.
Instead, she embarks on some lunatic brexit economics that pretty much the whole financial world, both home and abroad, had said word cause chaos.
And the problem is that whatever happens from now, a huge amount of damage has been done in these past few weeks. As borrowing costs for the government have risen, so have they for homeowners, with many coming off fixed rate mortgages in the next few months - facing huge rises. With house prices likely to fall, many will do what they did in the early 90's. Stop paying and sit it out till evicted.
She may well feel that it is not her fault. There are those in the background pulling the strings. Perhaps she might then ask why she was so willing to be a puppet for others. | | | |
| Seriously though, how on earth did Truss end up PM? on 22:55 - Oct 14 with 1453 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Seriously though, how on earth did Truss end up PM? on 22:50 - Oct 14 by Lord_Lucan |
No one understands a bloody thing.
Everyone continues to pipe on about energy prices but the main reason why inflation is here to stay is because of the state of the bloody £ against the $
I'm a bit out of all the news circle at the moment as we are as busy as sh1t and we are actually in a genuine meltdown - hooever, I just had a look at the news and I see that the fecking cretinous Truss is now looking at U turning on mothballing the corporation tax rise
What a fecking idiot she is. |
Lock yourself in your tellytubby bunker with some nice red wine....send me the postcode. | |
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| Seriously though, how on earth did Truss end up PM? on 23:01 - Oct 14 with 1423 views | Lord_Lucan |
| Seriously though, how on earth did Truss end up PM? on 22:55 - Oct 14 by BanksterDebtSlave |
Lock yourself in your tellytubby bunker with some nice red wine....send me the postcode. |
I'm staying up north until Nov 7.
They don't have roundabouts up here - they call them islands
......and everyone calls each other "Skip"
...................................and whatever drink you buy in the pub - it's £3.50! | |
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| Seriously though, how on earth did Truss end up PM? on 23:01 - Oct 14 with 1421 views | thebooks |
[shrugs] they've been crap for ages, held afloat by Johnson. God knows why they got rid of him. Truss is the worst of a very average lot.
(Johnson is a mendacious shambles, but he's a very smart, effective politician.) |  | | |
| Seriously though, how on earth did Truss end up PM? on 23:11 - Oct 14 with 1389 views | HARRY10 |
| Seriously though, how on earth did Truss end up PM? on 23:01 - Oct 14 by thebooks |
[shrugs] they've been crap for ages, held afloat by Johnson. God knows why they got rid of him. Truss is the worst of a very average lot.
(Johnson is a mendacious shambles, but he's a very smart, effective politician.) |
err no
He would have achieved something other than conning his way into every position then failing heroically
ran out of town by his own MPs after losing three safe seats to the biggest voter switch in the partys history
the Libdems picked up a huge increase in seats in 2010 by lying about student loans, they were hammered in the following election, just as happened with the bloater in by elections and local elections | | | |
| Seriously though, how on earth did Truss end up PM? on 23:15 - Oct 14 with 1382 views | Lord_Lucan |
| Seriously though, how on earth did Truss end up PM? on 23:11 - Oct 14 by HARRY10 |
err no
He would have achieved something other than conning his way into every position then failing heroically
ran out of town by his own MPs after losing three safe seats to the biggest voter switch in the partys history
the Libdems picked up a huge increase in seats in 2010 by lying about student loans, they were hammered in the following election, just as happened with the bloater in by elections and local elections |
Problem is Harry, I'm sure you're a nice guy but I genuinely don't know what you are talking about. | |
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| Seriously though, how on earth did Truss end up PM? on 23:37 - Oct 14 with 1327 views | XYZ |
They've been played and conned like the wider British (well, English mostly) public. "Playable" and "connable".
They've literally picked your pocket (and mine).
The only solution is to crawl back to Brussels and beg to rejoin the EU on as favourable terms as they'll allow. That would give the economy a chance to recover.
Join the Euro - the Pound is a junk currency.
Fight back against what Putin and the US right-wing libertarians did to this country. | | | |
| Seriously though, how on earth did Truss end up PM? on 23:43 - Oct 14 with 1295 views | HARRY10 |
| Seriously though, how on earth did Truss end up PM? on 23:15 - Oct 14 by Lord_Lucan |
Problem is Harry, I'm sure you're a nice guy but I genuinely don't know what you are talking about. |
slowly then.................
Johnson failed in every job including being a journalist
booted out as PM by MPs
recorded the worst by elections
Libdems lied in 2010, punished in 2015... as will Johnson be
I would not describe myself as nice, as being rather strikingly handsome being a bit of a cad is expected (which I am) | | | |
| Seriously though, how on earth did Truss end up PM? on 23:54 - Oct 14 with 1270 views | BasingstokeBlue |
I honestly thought Mordaunt would win.
Was genuinely shocked that the 14-year-old lookalike with the robotic moves won it. |  |
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| Seriously though, how on earth did Truss end up PM? on 09:12 - Oct 15 with 1051 views | EdwardStone |
The selection process took ages and produced a spectacularly poor result
It reminded me of my Local Authority Planning Department, taking an inordinant length of time to come up with the wrong answer
This. Is. A. Disgrace. |  | | |
| Seriously though, how on earth did Truss end up PM? on 09:42 - Oct 15 with 976 views | Pendejo |
Surely THE most pertinent question is how on earth she became an MP?
I can't even see how a local parliamentary committee selected her as their candidate, oh wait... Norfolk, she reminded them of their mother/ sister. |  |
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