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How the papers are treating LIz’s first day – politicalbetting.com
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/new-york-timess-vendetta-against-britain-is-bizarre-3nsb9kg3s (£££)
Not just here then.
Liz Truss’s gurning visage was on the cover and she was the top story, with a double page treatment also on Page 11.
I couldn’t really fault it.
Maybe it’s the editorials that are problematic.
Russia has earned more than enough from President Putin’s energy war on the West to cover the cost of the Ukraine invasion, researchers said yesterday.
The Kremlin has brought in £141 billion from oil, gas and coal sales since the Russian leader sent tanks across the border six months ago, according to the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (Crea), a Finnish think tank. In comparison, it has spent an estimated £86 billion on the war, it added. The exact figure is a state secret.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/putins-energy-war-profits-dwarf-cost-of-ukraine-conflict-sgn32p0qv (£££)
Truss has rejected Johnson's attempt to install Chope on the Privilege's committee
I am sure we can all welcome that news
https://twitter.com/harrylitman/status/1567300918265397248
I don’t believe that I’ve ever seen a court reject a proposed amicus brief, especially from eminent amici like the Former GOP prosecutors Cannon just refused to hear from. That’s now several bizarre & non-judicial moves, starting w/ her first announcement of intent to grant SM.
Pro tip: don't shoot an SPG-9 recoiless rifle indoors.
https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1567325070246256640
However back in the day the system was that Oxford would do their own admissions testing 9 months before the public exams and if you passed that, you'd only have to get two Es (E being the lowest possible pass) to get your place. I think this was done to show Oxford's contempt for the public system.
Being insufferably nerdy the kids who got into Oxford nearly always got high grades like AAA or the occasional AAB. But there were always rumours of some DGIF gigachad who got the place and then put in so little effort that they only got two E grades. If Truss decided she couldn't be arsed to show up for one of the exams that would indicate very large ladyballs and Mr Putin should be careful not to offend her any more than he already has.
Mr. kjh, hope you and your wife recover quickly.
Material on foreign nation’s nuclear capabilities seized at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
Some seized documents were so closely held, only the president, a Cabinet-level or near-Cabinet level official could authorize others to know
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/09/06/trump-nuclear-documents/
The argument that an ex- President has executive privilege over such documents doesn’t even reach the level of absurdity.
And by law a President cannot declassify such documents on his own authority.
Either Trump is done, or the US Constitution and rule of law are.
A Ruling Untethered to the Law
By appointing a special master to review the Mar-a-Lago documents, Judge Aileen Cannon gave Trump the special treatment he asked for—and undermined the values of her profession.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/judge-cannon-trump-mar-a-lago-special-master/671349/
https://wonkhe.com/blogs/what-are-conservative-leadership-candidates-saying-about-higher-education/
Truss? Lowest ever support of a leader amongst MPs. Lowest voted support of a leader amongst members. And she puts *that* together as a cabinet.
This is going to be piss funny to watch. Truly is like imagining what cabinet PM John Redwood would have put together - making Braverman Gorman Home Secretary!!!!
However, many countries will have noted that Russia was willing to turn off energy supplies to exert political pressure, which will discourage them from becoming too dependent. Likewise, it has become increasingly obvious that Russian kit - while cheaper than French or American - has not performed as well.
So, I think the idea that there will be no consequences for Russia are for the birds.
Surely the opposite. He is so desperate to gets close to the EU, he's willing to invade another country simply to get Russia's borders closer.
The 'areas of opportunity' are for the benefit of China and India, not Russia.
He truly is a master strategist.
If you are really both virgins I can think of a few things you might want to do to pass the time while you are in bed. 😉
In other news I have written the council a very nice letter since they have asked me to explain why I want to put solar panels and battery on my garage. This is the sort of shit Truss needs to draw a line through. Time and expense for no reason other than to create a non-job at the council.
Oh, and the minor detail that they will find it very tricky to spend the cash overseas, so Rouble inflation numbers are going to be fun.
https://www.alansmithers.com/reports/AL2014.pdf
The other obvious lesson is that having nuclear bombs will protect you from direct US attacks.
Truss has rewarded loyalty, not talent, and that could be her first and biggest mistake. Ideologically inflexible, with still too many public school types, a cabinet of such dullards is going to try the patience of the voters quite quickly, I fear.
For me, it is a disappointing start.
Yes, the Sunakites are going to be a problem, as was obvious from their uncharacteristically vicious campaign against Truss over the past two months.
Truss is the most ideologically driven PM in memory, perhaps since Attlee. Thatcher was tempered by pragmatism and kept significant opponents in the cabinet almost to the end.
It is going to be a rough ride. It is very hard to see the hard right economics being compatible with £100 billion in energy subsidies.
Are you a member of the Royal Family ?
1) this is a mediocre setup, politics returns to normal and the government has lost its Teflon quality. Labours job got easier.
2) The internal Tory politics reminds me of GoT season 1. The fat king is gone, the hand to the king dead, his supporters purged, JRMs little finger remains and the somewhat unhinged Joffrey aka Truss ascended the throne surrounded by sycophants.
PMQs today: will be fascinating to see how LT plays it. I suspect it will be the usual unconvincing waffle but it would be refreshing if she actually went in with a straight bat.
There are only two stages of appeal for this - the 11th Circuit, and the Supreme Court.
This is nothing to do with 'spirited lawyers' - Trump's are uniformly crap anyway - but rather about a judge just making shit up.
It gives right to the heart if the Constitution, and can't quietly be delayed until everyone forgets about it.
For the last 7 years a lot of people have laughed at the modern monetary theory policy that Corbyn and co would have implemented if they had won an election. Yet that appears to be Truss’s approach to economics and worse she is ignoring 12 years of evidence that low corporate tax rates do not generate corporate investment - instead companies seek to maximise short term profits while tax rates are low…
It does take time for these things to have the full effect, but the Russian economy is slowly being hollowed-out from within. It won’t take too long before factories and farms shut, for lack of capital equipment and raw materials.
Very promising.
https://mobile.twitter.com/War_Mapper/status/1567314439648563201
Be interesting to see what Smith makes of them.
Eventually they will leak. She may well just want to get them out and dealt with properly.
He will be accused of mansplaining by Truss supporters. Truss may even stumble over some kind of caustic, pre-prepared comment to that effect, too.
Liz Truss' three priorities according to her speech yesterday are the economy, the energy crisis and the NHS. And she's put Rees-Mogg in charge of climate change policy.
Attack her on climate change, and it's link to the energy crisis. Also on the general decay in the public realm, such as delays to criminal trials, created by twelve years of Tory cuts. The key thing is to tie Truss to the accumulated defects and mistakes of twelve years of Tory government, rather than allow her to present herself as [another] fresh start, not responsible for the problems inherited from the Cameron, May and Johnson governments.
Of the others, one was Dominic Cummings, who believes the correct way to test his eyesight is by driving a two-ton killing machine on a sixty mile round trip to a beauty spot, another was Michael Gove, who talks about blobs, and a third was Amanda Spielmann, who told the Education Select Committee that teenage girls being blackmailed for nude selfies should not be seen as a safeguarding issue.
If we get the government we deserve, boy we must have done some bad shit.
At a time like this a political columnist like me finds himself in a quandary. For months I’ve been arguing with energy and vehemence against the decision the Tory membership made on Monday. I’ve derided the person they chose and predicted her failure. I can hardly pretend not to believe now that this is likely to end horribly.
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My problem with Liz Truss is not that she is dim, as some people incorrectly suggest. Or that she is wooden, when her capturing of the leadership suggests she has strong persuasive skills. Or that she is unlikeable, when I have always found her anything but. It is that I don’t think she is right to suggest we can simply cut taxes, increase spending and as a result produce growth. I don’t think she is correct to ally herself to the right of the Conservative Party. And a policy of no U-turns is only a good one if you are going in the right direction.
How did you miss out on a career at the DfE sir?
But after Boris etc, there is that interesting opportunity which will hardly last long for gaining a reputation for the things which most voters would prioritise at the moment:
Clarity, competence, honesty, unity, moderation, purpose, plan, consistency, principle.
I am not holding my breath, but the next couple of months will be interesting.
I don't believe China could prevent Taiwan from getting a nuclear weapon. The US could, I'm sure put enormous pressure on them not to get one. But whether they would heed that pressure or not, is another matter.
While that doesn't inspire much faith in his ability to uphold the law, it does give her an option for the Today program.
That's a really, really scary sentence.
This argument fails when you remember the sycophants are even worse.
Should Putin's invasion collapse over the winter, for example, then the subsequent bounce in confidence might allow a Spring election and surprise win.
Things would then end horribly, but five years down the line, and Parris will have retired.
I could not blame Taiwan for having a 'salted earth' policy, and let it be known to the PRC government. Especially if it makes TSMC and similar industries less lucrative spoils of war.