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Liz Truss resigns as UK prime minister

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Re: Liz Truss resigns as UK prime minister

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Regardless of what? No mini-budget? A different mini-budget? A different PM? I think your question is too broad to answer.

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Don't be rude

Your question is still too vague to answer. Obviously some mini-budgets would have caused the markets to react the same way and others wouldn't.

I genuinely have no idea what you're asking but I'm now not sticking around to find out.

Re: Liz Truss resigns as UK prime minister

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The shortest serving British PM was George Canning who was in office for 119 days(1827). And now she made history.

George Canning died in office, he wasn’t pushed out for being a miserable failure who crashed the economy.

According to the article:

> The second shortest serving PM was George Canning, who served for 119 days after dying in 1827.

Sounds like the UK has had an undead PM.

Re: Liz Truss resigns as UK prime minister

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What 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.

Reminds me of an old joke.

Back in the 60s, a Soviet diplomat ran into an American diplomat on the sidelines of some conference.

"I want to congratulate you Americans", says the Soviet diplomat, "your propaganda is amazing, it's much better than ours".

"What do you mean?", replies the American. "We don't have propaganda?"

"See what I mean!"

Re: Liz Truss resigns as UK prime minister

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post #43

An 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.

There are so many independent dimensions of badness going on here that it’s hard to compare and determine who was worse.

Re: Liz Truss resigns as UK prime minister

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post #48

What 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.

There wasn't 3 separate leaders after Brown though. He lost a GE to a coalition that he wasn't prepared to form.
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