I guess we should count ourselves lucky that once MPs are done selecting their next vacuous blowhard, it won't go to the smooth-brained party members who were responsible for the final vote to install Truss.
Liz Truss resigns as UK prime minister
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#43An obvious fall guy. Rather shameful maneuver.
That is what I was thinking. Was she worse than Boris or is it just sexism?
Edit: I'm sure objectively she was bad, but yeah.
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#44Imagine rising to the ranks of prime minister of one of the most influential countries ever and for your legacy to be a head of lettuce out-survived your reign. That the Queen literally died the day after meeting you. Unbelievable.
I think she is one of the best politics speedrunners. Managed to rack up a lot of attention for a lot of different things, finishing with a grand exit. She will be enjoying that lettuce now.
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#45Imagine rising to the ranks of prime minister of one of the most influential countries ever and for your legacy to be a head of lettuce out-survived your reign. That the Queen literally died the day after meeting you. Unbelievable.
Britain, Brazil, Australia, Philippines, India, Turkey, U.S … it is mind numbing that of all the good, talented people these countries have, only the dumbest, worst of the worst end up in positions of power. Depressing.
At this point, we can just randomly pick a citizen to be President or PM. We might have better chances that way
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#46What happens next will be interesting . At this point, a general election would be the obviously correct solution. It's clear that the conservative party don't have a platform and can't agree major policy points amongst themselves. However that would require conservative MPs to vote for it, which is the turkeys voting for Christmas so unlikely to happen, so I'd expect we'll have to wait till 2024 for that election. T…
Every time I think the USA is completely ruined, I remember how much worse the citizens of the UK have it. I remote worked for a London based CTO for years, with a science Phd, and to hear him discuss UK politics gave me an insight how effective propaganda and being immersed in a culture impacts one's judgement.
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#47What happens next will be interesting . At this point, a general election would be the obviously correct solution. It's clear that the conservative party don't have a platform and can't agree major policy points amongst themselves. However that would require conservative MPs to vote for it, which is the turkeys voting for Christmas so unlikely to happen, so I'd expect we'll have to wait till 2024 for that election. T…
I think whoever is elected as the next Conservative leader needs to call a general election immediately. There is no mandate for a government formed by yet another Tory leader.
The world is such a different place to 2019, there is no way they can argue that they are a continuation of the previous mandate.
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#48What happens next will be interesting . At this point, a general election would be the obviously correct solution. It's clear that the conservative party don't have a platform and can't agree major policy points amongst themselves. However that would require conservative MPs to vote for it, which is the turkeys voting for Christmas so unlikely to happen, so I'd expect we'll have to wait till 2024 for that election. T…
There was no general election when Gordon Brown took over from Tony Blair.
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#49An obvious fall guy. Rather shameful maneuver.
From what I saw it was Truss and Kwarteng who caused the immediate issues, so not really a fall person, so much as the people who caused the problem leaving. They came up with the disasterous "mini-budget" which kicked it all off, they dismissed a senior treasury civil servant right before that, they didn't co-ordinate with the bank of england. Sure there are deeper problems that are not of their making but they made…
I think it's arguable that the minibudget overreaction wasn't remotely rational reporting or accurate as the cause of the gilt coupon drop. Certainly that day a load of people made money on them as it was very obvious they'd be fine. But in the cloud of noise that followed, with even the nations top economic journalists regurgitating nonsense... i doubt 0.5% of the adult population could even tell you what happened to any degree of accuracy.
I'd argue she shouldn't have been choosen as she is weak in media terms, always has been, and was always going to be an easy target for the screaming minority of people.
And yes, timing was unlucky, but a prudent leader would have seen that
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#50An impressive speed run. I wonder if it counts as tool assisted.