The Politics Thread

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Those same markers can be applied to Truss's approach to the economy. Just like Brexit, at the behest of obscenely rich, right wing individuals with a vested interest, she tried to sell a myth which everyone warned against and almost exactly predicted the dire consequences.

Just like with Brexit, this pragmatic realism was brushed aside as project fear, labelled this time as doom mongering and "anti-growth".

And then when the inevitable happens, the excuse from those who supported her madcap idea is to say, "oh it was a good idea but wrong timing" which is akin to leavers now saying, "oh this isn't the brexit we voted for".

There are so many parallels, and it comes down to ill-thought out right wing neo-libertarian ideologies from inept people corrupted by those who have a vested financial/political interest.

 

The fevered attempts to keep Truss in office are as laughable as they are misguided. They can surround her with whoever they wish, but that won't address the inescapable problem, that as soon as she faces any degree of rigorous questioning, she'll freeze, tank and is done for.

It is delicious that she was prepared to allow the law of the jungle to destroy the lives of so many and that, in her wounded state, that's exactly what's in wait for her personal aspirations...she can try and run from that but she can't hide. She'll be gone soon.

 

I'm reasonably sure that, when Truss starting cosplaying as Thatcher back in January, I was asking why the hell she had any designs on being Tory leader as there were no signs of her showing any kind of leadership, competence, or ability to get cheap applause at the Tory conference when wittering on about the French and cheese

The fact the ERG tabbed her as the mindless vessel to do their bidding, after their previous attempt at a mindless vessel to do their bidding turned out to be a narcissistic sociopath only interested in his own glory (which any Londoner would have told them after his stint as Mayor) demonstrates that there needs to be an ERGRG to see just what the hell they're thinking

 

There was an article in the Telegraph yesterday saying that she should be replaced by Sunak.
The general idea appeared to be to for him to come in, have an election and lose.
Leave all the **** to Labour to clean up and reorganise, then repeat.

 

Lots of political sense in that.

 

Extremely cynical, but you can see the long-term value to the party.
At that point though you're basically acknowledging that your philosophy is damaging to the country.
You'd have thought that would give some of them pause, but apparently not.

 

They're in the business of winning elections. The longer this current car crash lasts, the longer it will take them to get back to doing that. The next few years will be EXTREMELY painful for the majority of people in this country. I believe that we will see civil unrest in the next 12 months. As cynical as it may be, they would be best getting out of office asap.

 

Privately educated Cambridge graduate who works as a columnist for the Telegraph.
Also hates "the establishment".

 

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/three-lessons-for-tories-from-this-debacle-tccb6mh7b

What would the Tories stand for, then?

 

If they put her up at PMQ's, they've lost the last vestiges of any semblance of sanity.

SHE IS TOAST.

 

A Hong Kong pro-democracy protester was pulled into Chinese consulate grounds in Manchester on Sunday and beaten up:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63280519

And they have the cheek to defend such actions.
I'm sure our patriotic government will get right on this...

 

Zahiwi up to his usual tricks, I see...

 

We have to give credit to Truss for uniting the country like never before.

 

Interesting thread here

 

The main problem I have with modern politics (and indeed life in general) is the spiral toward polorisation. Clearly people have their different opinions about the EU but one thing is for sure that the EU is not uniquely good or bad, the truth is somewhere between. So while it's hard to argue about problems with a lot of aspects of leaving the EU, I think it's hard to argue for example that the EU got vaccine procurement and rollout right. And that would have led to a lot of excess deaths in this country. And this isn't arguing that the government got the covid response right, it clearly didn't which again resulted in excess deaths in care homes and so on. The problem for me is the rush away from the middle ground, from consensus. It's only going to get worse.