The Official Liz Truss no longer PM but still a Clusterfuck thread

[Detournement]

This does seem like it's being staged between the BoE and government as an excuse to jack up interest rates. 

A great reset move from a growth based economy to a primarily rent seeking economy. 

 

[Clown Job]

Just now, Theyellowbox said:

Genuine question. At what point do the British people get so angry that there is mass protests? And I don't mean the usual activists, but the normal man and woman on the street.

If this were pretty much any other country, folk would be out kicking up a stink and demanding the government do something or force them out.

A lot of folk have been unhappy for a long time, but assuming the penny has finally dropped for the Brexity folk, when do they get angry? 

They’re fucking spineless

Dont expect anything from the “Keep calm and carry on” mob

[Clown Job]

 

[101]

Absolutely hilarious that no confidence letters are going in, just like the Labour party, the membership have the political acuity of a shrimp and the politicians tear themselves apart over it, great laugh in opposition but such behaviour whilst in government should see you into the electoral oblivion.

[welshbairn]

 

[Michael W]

8 minutes ago, Theyellowbox said:

Genuine question. At what point do the British people get so angry that there is mass protests? And I don't mean the usual activists, but the normal man and woman on the street.

If this were pretty much any other country, folk would be out kicking up a stink and demanding the government do something or force them out.

A lot of folk have been unhappy for a long time, but assuming the penny has finally dropped for the Brexity folk, when do they get angry? 

Probably at the point the people making the "Why aren't people rioting????" posts on twitter realise no-one is doing their bidding for them and they are forced to start it themselves. 

[O'Kelly Isley III]

8 minutes ago, Theyellowbox said:

Genuine question. At what point do the British people get so angry that there is mass protests? And I don't mean the usual activists, but the normal man and woman on the street.

If this were pretty much any other country, folk would be out kicking up a stink and demanding the government do something or force them out.

A lot of folk have been unhappy for a long time, but assuming the penny has finally dropped for the Brexity folk, when do they get angry? 

When they realise that the Queen really is deid.  And there's f**k all left but Strictly.

[Theyellowbox]

5 minutes ago, Michael W said:

Probably at the point the people making the "Why aren't people rioting????" posts on twitter realise no-one is doing their bidding for them and they are forced to start it themselves. 

But they won't. Everyone will continue to look away and pretend it's not happening, while privately saying we are fucked.

We are a nation(s) of lazy individuals when it comes to protecting ourselves. Unless someone hands us a solution or perceived solution on a plate, see Brexit, then we will do nothing.

If the Faroe Islands invaded Britain, they'd probably succeed as folk would be too lazy to fight.

However, I do think that once there is a trickle of discontent, there will be a flood behind it, as you suggest. 

[Granny Danger]

To the tune of King of the Road (with apologies to Roger Miller)

UK for sale or rent

Get a pound for 50 cents

Neo cons now run the place

See the smile on Rees Mogg’s face

 

Feel free to add verses.

 

(yeah now I’m retired I have too much time on my hands)

[Inanimate Carbon Rod]

 

if there is truth to this, then Kwarteng should be investigated for misconduct in public office. 

[falkirkthebigclub]

7 minutes ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said:

 

if there is truth to this, then Kwarteng should be investigated for misconduct in public office. 

*scoffs* You mean 'arrested', like a poor person?!!

[Inanimate Carbon Rod]

6 minutes ago, badgerthewitness said:

*scoffs* You mean 'arrested', like a poor person?!!

I fully believe the NCA needs to open an investigation into Brexit, the past two Tory regimes and the current one. The corruption is widespread on the scale of Trump in the USA, we need ‘our FBI’ to do the same. 

[zidane's child]

42 minutes ago, 101 said:

Absolutely hilarious that no confidence letters are going in, just like the Labour party, the membership have the political acuity of a shrimp and the politicians tear themselves apart over it, great laugh in opposition but such behaviour whilst in government should see you into the electoral oblivion.

They’re all clinging onto their seats with some of them knowing they will be getting emptied in 2024.

[Clown Job]

1 minute ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said:

I fully believe the NCA needs to open an investigation into Brexit, the past two Tory regimes and the current one. The corruption is widespread on the scale of Trump in the USA, we need ‘our FBI’ to do the same. 

They’re turning us into a mini USA

[Granny Danger]

19 minutes ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said:

I fully believe the NCA needs to open an investigation into Brexit, the past two Tory regimes and the current one. The corruption is widespread on the scale of Trump in the USA, we need ‘our FBI’ to do the same. 

For all it’s faults I think the USA’s constitution offers it citizens a level of protection that does not exist in the UK.  We have an ‘elected dictatorship’ which allows the government to do largely what they want.

 

Edited September 26, 2022 by Granny Danger

[Hedgecutter]

53 minutes ago, Granny Danger said:

To the tune of King of the Road (with apologies to Roger Miller)

UK for sale or rent

Get a pound for 50 cents

Neo cons now run the place

See the smile on Rees Mogg’s face

A country that's now doomed

Thanks to a whole cabinet turnaroond

Stealing all attention away from the Queen *dead*

End of the road

Edited September 26, 2022 by Hedgecutter

[Salt n Vinegar]

This is such an unbelievable shambles... Pound collapsing, wealth gap widening, Cabinet split incoming on immigration, Bank of England rumoured to be planning another rapid interest rate rise... any minute now I expect that the Cabinet will start to unzip their foreheads to reveal they are actually the Slitheen from Dr Who. 

You may scoff but it's only marginally less believable than the pretence that these inept "c"ankers actually know what they are doing. 

Tell you what, it's going to take a Hell of a" look over there" to deflect us from looking "over here". "Queen's corgies were CIA agents"; "Megan rages as Harry signs for Chelsea"; maybe even "Boris to divorce Carrie and run away with Nadine Dorries."

The Daily Mail and Express readers might fall for it, but the money markets managers won't, and they haven't taken their eyes off the ball over the past few days. 

Edited September 26, 2022 by Salt n Vinegar

[williemillersmoustache]

36 minutes ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said:

I fully believe the NCA needs to open an investigation into Brexit, the past two Tory regimes and the current one. The corruption is widespread on the scale of Trump in the USA, we need ‘our FBI’ to do the same. 

They did, into Banks anyway.  It didn't go anywhere. Between the toothless EC & ICo they got away with all the electoral fraud and I imagine proving any direct links between the UK government, its ministers, their families, their opaque trusts etc and their influence on what was essentially a unregulated straw poll, would be an enormous ball ache. 

Edited September 26, 2022 by williemillersmoustache

[ICTJohnboy]

Can't help but wonder who's pulling the strings for the not overly bright Liz T.

IDS maybe?

 

Iain Duncan Smith MP

 

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@KwasiKwarteng

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Lower taxes. A growing economy. Higher wages. That is the Conservative Plan for Growth.

 

 

[Clown Job]

15 minutes ago, Granny Danger said:

For all it’s faults I think the USA’s constitution offers it citizens a level of protection that does not exist in the UK.  We have an ‘elected dictatorship’ which allows the government to do largely what they want.

 

Parliamentary Sovereignty

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