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Kudos to the PCP for so hurriedly making her an Out of Office.
What is behind such a shift? Even accounting for career climbing flexibility it seems a remarkable shift, and it isn't necessary to go full Trump to play the right wing candidate in a post election Tory party, so why go that way?
Never knew you would ramp the LibDems so much, Sunil. Have they promised free train transport for all?
The unintended consequence of this being that she is embarrassing herself even more.
I always thought you needed a little humiliation. Or was it humility? Either would do.
ZELENSKY TO U.S: WHAT YOU DID FOR ISRAEL - WHY NOT THE SAME FOR UKRAINE?
🇺🇸BLINKEN: IRAN IS NOT RUSSIA.
ZELENSKY:
"I can tell you frankly that we have no chance of winning without US support.
You need to be much stronger than your enemy.
Today, our artillery ratio is 1-10. Can we hold our ground?
No.
With this artillery ratio, they'll be pushing us back every day.
To defend 100% of what's in our control, we must go from 1-10 to 10-10."
Source: PBS News Hour
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1780310689929646112
Coming to a Florida textbook soon.
There must be something in the Conservative Party's constitution that says you can be deselected from your constituency if you're proven to be insane?
https://x.com/mollyjongfast/status/1780215571327451265?s=46&t=CW4pL-mMpTqsJXCdjW0Z6Q
I should think that is a very high bar to reach, given who makes up most associations. When party memberships are so low it's only weirdos who remain, just of different levels.
I assume her economic stance at least is pretty sincere, given she was so keen she moved too quickly and recklessly to enact them. But socially I'm not sure I've seen all that much.
See it in left and right - more intolerant of internal dissent (not that any leader ever liked it), and monotony more rigorously enforced. At least Truss is making things more interesting I suppose.
https://conservativepost.co.uk/calling-conservative-party-members-deselect-your-mp-if-theyre-not-being-conservative-enough/
Just need ten percent of the membership.
https://x.com/TheSun/status/1779856171916029979#m
https://youtu.be/UFNRUuBARM4
The signs were there
I think she is genuinely unwell.
Truss blames the Bank of England.....
https://twitter.com/DachshundColin/status/1780279144607293454?t=Mrw8Fzk2uV3MTqDiXcMeUQ&s=19
Sorry - it seems to have been posted already
Edam is Mad E backwards.
How did we not realise?
All would have been well with Penny.
Some now believe at any rate.
Sunak has been underwhelming, but it's difficult to avoid the conclusion that one reason why he's been poor is he inherited such an utter mess after both of his predecessors had caused major crises through arrant stupidity.
And every time she pops up, ably supported by Charles Moore et. al, it reminds all the British people why we won’t trust the tories with the keys to No.10 for at least another decade.
She is the gift that keeps on giving.
https://x.com/sobloodyshy/status/1780307936209773017?s=61
I just haven't worked out who is Hirohito, Truss or Johnson.
Or who is MacArthur who ensured all the guilt was placed on Tojo to save Hirohito.
But it doesn't answer for just how bad he has proven to be, the whole point of him was to stabilise things and then rebuild a bit, and he's not even managed that. Had Truss dropped just 5% less in the polls she might still be there, and recovered to a similar degree, and one wonders if she would be going down the political path she now is.
Mother Mary is back. And this time, she will be heard.
That Johnson could become and remain prime minister in defiance of everything his colleagues knew about his flaws must have only underlined the feeling that anything was possible. No wonder she wasn’t deterred when her own political agent told her it would be best if she didn’t actually win the leadership contest. No wonder, even now, that she still seems puzzled that it went wrong for her and not for a resurgent Trump, Nigel Farage, Suella Braverman or anyone else who would be a disaster if actually unleashed.
Correct me if I am wrong but it was the Daily Star that set that gag up.
Widely read by the denizens of the club and wine bars of North London.
Conviction of a felony certainly not guaranteed in this case, even if they accept the facts of the records fraud he engaged in which seems pretty solid.
Truss has Mrs Thatcher's flaw of believing Washington is behind her, ignoring what the President (or Trump in this case) actually says and does.
Her strange, almost French, speaking pattern seems to be returning as well.
George Galloway was one of them.
https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2024-04-16/division/D1D5C2F0-550F-4E63-9CA6-6AE196CC8D9E/TobaccoAndVapesBill?outputType=Names
Which would obviate the need to win elections and things - just run the country from there. Bit like the US.
Because that is working so well.
Reckon plenty mistake her for either Teresa May OR Penny Mordaunt, both having far more media exposure on this side of the Atlantic (and Pacific) in the later case due to her high-profile role during installation of King Charles.
It's a theory. But NEVER underestimate the ignorance of the American people when it comes to British politics.
Even vaster than per usual!
@Peston
I am told by DUP that Sunak’s smoking ban is very unlikely to apply in Northern Ireland because of the open border with the Republic and the likelihood the EU will say it is a basic right of Irish citizens of any age to buy cigarettes anywhere on the island. This seems to be an area where the Tory libertarian right would applaud Brussels
It seems they're putting a lot of shit out.
And I'm hearing grim rumours about their sewers too.
1. Penny Mordaunt. A risk. She, alone of all the contenders, could take the fight to Labour and keep the Tories in the game. But unclear whether she had the ability or experience to be a competent PM. But probably a risk worth taking in the circs.
2. Rishi Sunak. The "safe" choice. Man in a suit. Competent, and not likely to embarrass. But not an election-winner in difficult times.
3. Liz Truss. An obvious dud. Tin-eared. Starry-eyed. In the competition because the rightwing factionalists simply had to have a candidate no matter how unqualified. IDS in a wig.
The rest is history.
(*The SC doesn’t hear Scots Law criminal appeals because the post-Union House of Lords, as a successor of the pre-1707 Scottish Parliament, found it had inherited no such jurisdiction from that body, but that it had done so in civil matters)
What was wrong with 'Judicial Committee of the Privy Council' (which I believe is one name it still legally uses when hearing cases from various Commonwealth realms)? Quintessentially British and no unfortunate parallels to the criminal organisation in DC.
Truss's tax cuts, had they been implemented in full, would have amounted to £25 billion being left in peoples' and companies' pockets, from £1,100 billion of government receipts in 2026-27. How is that relatively modest level of tax cut, still leaving taxes at a 70 year high, 'uber-libertarian'?
What are these uber-libertarian social policies Truss has advocated - would she legalise or decriminalise any banned substances? Legalise prostitution? Raise the upper limit for abortion? If anything, her proposed trans bill is fairly conservative socially: https://news.sky.com/story/liz-truss-furious-after-mps-accused-of-blocking-transgender-reform-bill-13095370
But can you point to any 'uber-libertarian' social policies pursued by her?
That she is obviously a pillock.
It would be fair to say that this power has been used somewhat judiciously but I understand that there is currently an application for such an appeal in relation to the way that what the High Court has defined as collateral evidence is excluded in rape cases on the basis that it prevents a fair trial.