In Liz We Truss
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Leo
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Liz Truss is a ‘huge fan of the United States’
“I do think our relationship is special, and it’s increasingly important,” the United Kingdom's new prime minister said Sunday.
www.politico.com
pattycakes_
Can turn naughty
That old chestnut
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Given her past form, it's only a matter of time before someone digs up an old video of her vigorously denouncing the Great Satan.Liz Truss is a ‘huge fan of the United States’
“I do think our relationship is special, and it’s increasingly important,” the United Kingdom's new prime minister said Sunday.
It still took about a hundred years to get rid of Johnson via that route so I wouldn't get your hopes up. I am wondering what crisis might be sufficiently bad to force a general election.
IdleRich
IdleRich
I find it hard to believe. I don't see who else there is. Today I saw people on twitter asking "Do you think the 81,000 feel pretty stupid?" and my first thought was that it can't really count as a mistake if there was no better choice.
I think if there was another leadership election he would stand... and if he stood I reckon he would have a reasonable chance of winning. I wouldn't be at all surprised if some of those who sent letters or resigned voted for him. I hope that happens, I want to see people who the other day were so convinced that he lacked the character to lead their party that they had to send a letter demanding that he stepped down immediately explaining why they believe that he has now changed so utterly that it is vital that he leads the country.
version
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I don't like him, but Sunak was a better choice.
Mr. Tea
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What would he be doing that would be better, or at least less bad?
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Well, he warned her proposed tax cuts and borrowing would result in exactly what's happening now, so I presume not doing that.
woops
is not like other people
its my opinion that i read the news yesterday and i thought my god, there all as bad as each other... but what if that madman in the krenlim flips the switch next thing you know its goodbye maralago and those documents will be classified in perpetuity. then i got up and played a couple of frames for practice, something to do while my partner mills wheat in the low country paying off her dowry.
IdleRich
IdleRich
The thing with Thick Lizzy is that I have no confidence in her whatsoever and I don't think anyone else does either. So when she says "I'm sticking to my course, it's the right thing to do" it doesn't for one second cross my mind - as it may have done in the past with other PMs - that she is somehow privy to some kind of extra knowledge that we don't have and that there is something that might move the economy in the right direction. I don't think that she has any reason for saying that, her plan is nothing beyond blindly hoping that it will somehow be ok and that things will work out. And she thinks changing course will maker her look even stupider. Which is sort of right in that people will say that it was clear evidence she didn't know what she was doing at first... cos she didn't.
craner
Beast of Burden
As a former Bilderberg Group economist and Times Rich List city trader, can you please explain to us mortals what the fuck is going on?
IdleRich
IdleRich
I dunno. As I understand it, the government announced a so-called mini-budget last week that did nothing to address the real concerns of the majority of people but which gave money that the country can't afford to a small group of the richest people. So it seems that the main strategy of the government going forward appears to be to borrow money and give it to rich people - and as that's really stupid the pound collapsed.
Increasing interest rates can make the pound more attractive (cos if you can borrow euros at 4 percent, change them to pounds and lend them at 5 percent lots of people will) so people are talking about the BofE raising interest rates to save the pound from the Tories' idiocy but problem is, if you're poor and owe money then higher interest rates fuck you from the other direction.
Truss keeps saying her strategy is the right one and she'll stick to it but it obviously isn't. Their apologists in the press are saying the pound has collapsed cos the second they announced the mini-budget the markets started fearing Starmer getting in but that is also ridiculous. It feels like a fight between the Tories and reality.
Increasing interest rates can make the pound more attractive (cos if you can borrow euros at 4 percent, change them to pounds and lend them at 5 percent lots of people will) so people are talking about the BofE raising interest rates to save the pound from the Tories' idiocy but problem is, if you're poor and owe money then higher interest rates fuck you from the other direction.
Truss keeps saying her strategy is the right one and she'll stick to it but it obviously isn't. Their apologists in the press are saying the pound has collapsed cos the second they announced the mini-budget the markets started fearing Starmer getting in but that is also ridiculous. It feels like a fight between the Tories and reality.
Mr. Tea
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This isn't just a list of men called Rich, you know.
