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The Liz Truss comeback is on – politicalbetting.com
The Liz Truss comeback is on – politicalbetting.com
She has two chances. Slim and fat.
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She has two chances. Slim and fat.
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Btw, how can one tell when a seal blushes?
And, unlike the many other numpties at the top of the Tory Party she is not grotesquely over-privileged, nor personally corrupt.
Ok, she’s as nutty as a walnut whip, but you can’t have everything.
we're never gonna survive unless we get a little crazy.
But this is surely too crazy. The fact that Truss wants to come back ought to disqualify her. For her own peace of mind, if nothing else.
Same for the other ex-PM on manoeuvres.
I’m half way through the first one, it’s very good.
The Times are only saying this sh*t because they gotta say something about the ongoing fighting in top Tory circles while Raab hasn't even been sacked yet and Sunak hasn't managed to get it together enough to appoint a replacement for Zahawi as chairman.
It’s minus 15 but “feels like” minus 23 when you account for wind-chill. The only people out and about are the mentally unwell and homeless (pretty much the same thing).
Then once rid of Sunak and Hunt she will stand again for the party leadership to be Leader of the Opposition to PM Starmer
https://twitter.com/electpoliticsuk/status/1621818468407320578?s=20&t=qpFVaJbbb9vHlMXTEeVtxA
Ooh, the more I get, the stranger it feels, yeah
And now that her rose is in bloom
A light hits the gloom on the grey
(that one’s dedicated from me to @Luckyguy1983 )
Basically she is Barry Goldwater or Rand Paul in a skirt
As if she had any influence on that event!
(chuckles slightly but while she’s in a different room)
She would hope Johnson and Hunt lose their marginal seats too, then launch her comeback on a low tax agenda v a high tax Labour government
Even the shit-witted rump of Tories left after the next election aren’t that stupid.
She killed the Queen.
Her powers are simply terrifying.
I have also heard rumours of a flat white for sale at £4.75.
Why aren’t Britons rioting?
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/301514109
(The reviews say they are tasteless. I say, what do you expect? They are blueberries. Maybe £9.99 gets some good ones.)
But, like all the solutions to the Conservatives' problems, it requires the Conservatives to collectively acknowledge that they are in a deep hole.
I’m just shocked that someone priced them at 9.99 and expects someone to buy them.
Until the electors of Enfield Southgate intervened of course!
Like Tucker Carlson, who spends his days bashing vaccines yet has made sure he's fully jabbed, they're doing it for the money I suppose.
But if they won, and I mean truly won, they'd hate the world they helped create. A vaccineless world, where death was a lot more common and Russia ruled everything. No chance to vote, express an opinion or anything. The boot stamping on the human face forever.
And of course, their usefulness at an end, they'd be first to be liquidated by the regime anyway......
Strange mindset. I can't understand how they do it.
Bill Kristol: "It's an amazing story, and Perlstein, a man of the left, does it justice."
Conservatives were less happy about the later books.
75% of Green voters back sending tanks, vs just 6% of AfD.
Really shows how the Greens have embraced pragmatism (see also agreeing to keep nuclear pants open), while AfD captured by pro-Russian nuts.
https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1621807289970704384
What if Sunak is pretty chilled with his appointment of a rogues' gallery of Johnsonites and is perfectly content to let several iterations of bad news cycles take their course.
By drawing out the agony and then hanging them out at appropriate spacing along a metaphorical Appian Way, the Zahawis, Raabs and Bravermans of this world return to the
back benches as total wash outs rather than
potential troublemakers. In entertaining this theory, let's relish the humiliation it would
require for Spartacus Johnson himself.
Probably just me entertaining myself, but I'll put the thought out there.
64% of CDU voters and 61% of SPD voters and 55% of FDP voters like the Greens back sending tanks to Zelensky
https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/664482/view/walrus-bull-resting
https://www.gi.alaska.edu/alaska-science-forum/why-does-walrus-blush
Being a prominent anti-vaxxer can certainly be very profitable.
Even if a party knows it's going to lose, even if it knows defeat is probably for the best, it still has to fight to win.
(And obviously this doesn’t just affect Oxbridge.)
Brexit causes collapse in European research funding for Oxbridge
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/feb/04/brexit-causes-collapse-in-european-research-funding-for-oxbridge-universities
Great price - esp now.
Now the racing 😋
Aside from anything else, the mere sight of her will remind voters of the abject disaster she inflicted upon us first time around. How is that ever going to be an election-winning proposition? It would be like Labour putting up Gordon Brown as prospective PM in 2015.
OGH and I post first just to see that Vanilla is working ok.
Their rank incompetence is gonna keep EFC in the bottom three.
https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsburys-blueberries-500g
There are “specialty” veg shops which charge lots, of course. There’s one locally that claims all their vegetables are organic, ethical, free range and cruelty free. Or some such. I doubt blueberries there would be under a tenner for 200g.
Edit : the price of coffee is basically the price of labour plus a bit for the lighting, leccy, heating, WiFi and profit. There’s a few pennies in there for the coffee itself.
She is the answer to the following:
'Who was Britain's shortest serving Prime Minister, disallowing those who were unable to form a cabinet?'
'Who was Prime Minister when the shortest serving Chancellor who did not die in office was in the role?'
'Who was Prime Minister when Queen Elizabeth II died?'
'Who was the only Prime Minister to take office in Scotland?'
'Who was the only Prime Minister to be appointed without winning the support of a majority of MPs in a ballot since 1964?'
'Who had the silliest Downing Street lectern?'
That's enough to guarantee her a place in the history books, alongside the likes of the great Spencer Perceval and Lord Goderich.
"The heartwarming true story of how an Oxford graduate overcame the twin hardships of rank incompetence, and a disastrous, record-breaking initial stint in the job to return triumphantly as Britain's most respected Prime Minister - and saved a nation. This Lady's for Returning."
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E0EwcwCXMAQqIug?format=jpg&name=small
This article gives a hint of the reality.
https://kyivindependent.com/national/one-night-in-bakhmut-inside-the-bleak-world-of-citys-civilians-as-russia-draws-closer
When you look at the cabinet she chose,
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truss_ministry
it's possible that Truss Reborn is the best they can come up with.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-future-is-ai-but-will-it-allow-humans-to-play-a-part-m39m736hm
That sort of impression won’t just shift because suddenly the Tories are in opposition.
We don’t even know how many of the current lot will keep their seats - I’m expecting a neat extinction level event for them. Let’s see them try to embrace that
A short thread on some wider dynamics in the Prigozhin empire 1/
https://mobile.twitter.com/MarkGaleotti/status/1621862756591738880
Rand Paul? Now that is cruel. I don't know enough about Liz Truss to say whether that's cruel but fair, or just cruel. But I doubt that, for example, she has a father who has dabbled in racism.