The Premiership of Mary Elizabeth Truss.Sept 2022 - Oct 2022

[Jim Audiomisc]

Truss is now a genuine risk to the global financial system...

Astonishing to see the gulf between the consequence of her actions and the odd, awkward, hopelessly incompetent person we heard on local radio this morning.

The problem is that she and her crew genuinely have no idea what their actions are doing back in mere reality. They live in a cartoon dreamland.

 

[Sue Pertwee-Tyr]

Megaversalshambles? i.e. one you can see for all universes, not just our observable one. How to beat the speed of light in one easy lesson!

The speed of ignorance?

 

[paulfromcamden]

I think we need a new word. Omnishambles is clearly insufficient to describe the magnitude and extent of the current situation.

I've seen the word trussterfuck occasionally used in recent days.

 

[ks.234]

This is far worse than I ever imagined. OK, Tories being Tory I can understand but to deliberately crash the markets & our financial credibility?

Cameron & Osborne are looking godlike at the moment, halcyon days.

Ultimately you have to play ball with the markets, they need to know you have a plan even if they don’t agree with it.

Surely a better course would have been to keep the top rate & increase the 40p threshold? That makes Tory sense, this is just madness.

A better course of action would’ve been to use the borrowing to fund wage rises to close the gap on prices and thus tackle inflation.

Any government money spent would then be spent back into the economy and might actually stimulate growth.

The Tory plan was to take money out of the economy and encourage more inflation. Beyond stupid.

 

[Woodface]

If you're currently in the 40p band, then of course it makes sense.

Well yes, & more people are, £50k isn’t what it was

 

[Seeker_UK]

I've seen the word trussterfuck occasionally used in recent days.

Kwa crash?

 

[Woodface]

The problem is that she and her crew genuinely have no idea what their actions are doing back in mere reality. They live in a cartoon dreamland.

The problem is that they think they do.

 

[PsB]

So two consecutive PMs with a bad dose of Dunning-Kruger and the country is toast, and dragging down its neighbours and allies. Who could possibly have foreseen that?

Take Back Control™

 

[Ponty]

I've seen the word trussterfuck occasionally used in recent days.

In Cornwall we have a pretty derogatory term, ‘tuss’. Seems very fitting in this case.

 

[Mullardman]

Andrew Bridgen talking complete and utter bollocks on Politics Live and trying to blame the BoE for the current situation.
Some financier..Shankar? talking in code about 'distortions', 'insertion companies' nd other deliberate obfuscatory shite. Even after being asked to speak in plain English he continued with the same shite. None of the Tories even acknowledging the pain being caused.

 

[Tony L]

In Cornwall we have a pretty derogatory term, ‘tuss’. Seems very fitting in this case.

Ah, that makes sense of an Aphex Twin alias:

 

[Nick_G]

I think we need a new word. Omnishambles is clearly insufficient to describe the magnitude and extent of the current situation.

CHAOS covers it pretty well, I find.

 

[Ponty]

Honestly, the more I hear these radio interviews, it’s like listening to a wounded animal when being shot would be the kindest thing to do.

 

[Tony L]

Honestly, the more I hear these radio interviews, it’s like listening to a wounded animal when being shot would be the kindest thing to do.

Angela Rayner apparently described it as “Liz Truss has finally broken her long painful silence with a series of short painful silences.”. Others are likening it to an Alan Partridge tour.

 

[Sue Pertwee-Tyr]

Andrew Bridgen talking complete and utter bollocks on Politics Live and trying to blame the BoE for the current situation.
Some financier..Shankar? talking in code about 'distortions', 'insertion companies' nd other deliberate obfuscatory shite. Even after being asked to speak in plain English he continued with the same shite. None of the Tories even acknowledging the pain being caused.

Radio 4 World at One has just played a bit of a roundup of the morning's local media interviews. One thing that stuck out for me was Truss' repeated reference to 'the independent Bank of England'. It seems clear to me that the Tories are preparing to throw the BoE under the bus in order to defend their position.

 

[AnilS]

Simple question to a complex situation.

Are all pensions screwed? I got my pension quote a few months ago and just asked for another. Expecting the worst.

 

[andyoz]

Honestly, the more I hear these radio interviews, it’s like listening to a wounded animal when being shot would be the kindest thing to do.

Oh, I've just taken some time to listen to the interviews...Holy Cow she's toast!

She can't even do that Politician trick of speaking when you have nothing really to say to cover the awkward pauses...

 

[Mullardman]

Truss spent her entire leadership campaign droning on about tax cuts and barely acknowledging the energy and cost of living crises.
Now she won't talk about the tax cuts and keeps droning on about the support package.

As someone observed. She'd be out of her depth on a damp pavement...

 

[Tigerjones]

Described in the Guardian as a 'Reverse Robin Hood' which is excellent. My colleague asked if this a sexual position, hahaha.

 

[Mullardman]

Oh, I've just taken some time to listen to the interviews...Holy Cow she's toast!

She can't even do that Politician trick of speaking when you have nothing really to say to cover the awkward pauses...

And she hasn't even done 'Deflection 101'.

What happened to:

'What's important here is ..'
'What you should really be asking me...'
'Look...the point is.. '

Though to her credit..she did manage to slip in 'difficult decisions'....which we all know means. 'screwing the poor'.