Harrier Posted October 20, 2022 Posted October 20, 2022 Iconic You'd think it was some major corruption scandal, but no she's just such an unpopular flop with terrible policies Assassinated the queen then dipped ig
Genius1111 Posted October 20, 2022 Posted October 20, 2022 From The Guardian's live blog _____ Some gallows humour from Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister. It appears that Liz Truss’s resignation will set another unwanted record, by making her the first prime minister in recent history not to call the UK’s devolved leaders at any point while in office. Under a modern convention, one of the first acts of a new prime minister is to make a courtesy call to the first ministers of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It emerged earlier this month that Truss had failed to uphold that tradition by omitting to call Sturgeon or Mark Drakeford, the Welsh first minister, despite being in office for a month. Sturgeon called Truss’s failure to call “absurd”. After Truss’s enforced resignation, the BBC Scotland political reporter Phillip Sims tweeted: “Is Liz Truss set to leave office without ever having a formal meeting or even phone call with Nicola Sturgeon?” Sturgeon replied, with an eye-wink emoji: “If she doesn’t mind, I’ll now just wait for whoever will become the 5th PM (so far) during my time as FM.”
nadiamendell Posted October 20, 2022 Posted October 20, 2022 Oh wow. What is going on over there??? For once the major headline of the day is not about the US government being in shambles
fountain Posted October 20, 2022 Posted October 20, 2022 How are we supposed to deal with this for over two years more of Tory ineptitude
Benjamin Posted October 20, 2022 Posted October 20, 2022 The fact they're going to re-elect Boris, completely forgetting he was also losing in a landslide to Labour and was deeply unpopular. Like, yes, he was keeping the Tories in triple seat figures, but that shouldn't be an achievement.
Vermillion Posted October 20, 2022 Posted October 20, 2022 Wow, UK in full-on meltdown mode, dominating international headlines for weeks, for once. This feels bigger than Brexit, idk. I feel like this is an omen internationally. The next two-three years are going to be a complete **** show globally.
Marla Singer Posted October 20, 2022 Posted October 20, 2022 So the next leadership candidates have to get 100 MPs to nominate them by Monday, but is there even a single candidate that 100 Tories can agree on when the party is so divided? These were the results of the first ballot of the last leadership contest and no-one got 100 votes from MPs, although Rishi was close: Rishi Sunak - 88 Penny Mordaunt - 67 Liz Truss - 50 Kemi Badenoch - 40 Tom Tugendhat - 37 Anti-tofu and anti-human-rights activist - 32 Nadhim Zahawi - 25 Jeremy Hunt - 18
ATRL Moderator Azulito Posted October 20, 2022 ATRL Moderator Posted October 20, 2022 The UK is truly a mess
Antonini Posted October 20, 2022 Posted October 20, 2022 Penny Mourdant could probably keep the tories together. But eff that! ANGELA RAYNER RISE! THIS WILL BE YOUR MOMENT! …once they call a general election and she takes out Kier Starmer
POPTART Posted October 20, 2022 Posted October 20, 2022 These PMs coming and leaving faster than an Aldi till service. Enough is enough, we want general election!
fridayteenage Posted October 20, 2022 Posted October 20, 2022 parliament in shambles the royal family in shambles the crown did that
Daydream Posted October 20, 2022 Posted October 20, 2022 On 10/15/2022 at 8:38 AM, Daydream said: Not the lettuce actually winning.
Protocol Posted October 20, 2022 Posted October 20, 2022 If there isn’t a general election people need to protest
808s Posted October 20, 2022 Posted October 20, 2022 Wait so she is OUT because she wanted people to pay less taxes(and have more money that way??) and the banks got mad?
KFC Posted October 20, 2022 Posted October 20, 2022 6 hours ago, C_Colstead said: 44 whole days. That's how long she lasted. An absolute bloody mess. I've food in my freezer that's lasted longer. You better get to eating that before the winter blackouts hit and it all ROTS
Daydream Posted October 20, 2022 Posted October 20, 2022 3 minutes ago, HotFriedChicken said: You better get to eating that before the winter blackouts hit and it all ROTS Oh god I didn’t even think about fridge freezers being out of power. That has got to be the worst part about the blackouts.
Teen Idle Posted October 20, 2022 Posted October 20, 2022 52 minutes ago, 808s said: Wait so she is OUT because she wanted people to pay less taxes(and have more money that way??) and the banks got mad? https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/30/liz-truss-uk-economic-crisis This article explains it fully. Tax cuts + irresponsible spending = market crash
808s Posted October 20, 2022 Posted October 20, 2022 Just now, Benjamin said: She's out because her entire economic policy was exposed as completely and utterly stupid within days of her taking office. To the surprise of no one except herself and her chancellor, leaving her a lame duck with nothing to give. She almost wiped out the entire UK Pensions system and crashed the mortgage market because she wanted to cut taxes on the wealthy and pay for it through massive increases in borrowing. Borrowing isn't an unlimited money tree and the markets said no. Oh wait so she did this for the rich? **** her then
Benjamin Posted October 20, 2022 Posted October 20, 2022 Just now, 808s said: Oh wait so she did this for the rich? **** her then Oops hid my post because Teen Idle replied first, but yeah basically. There was some tax cuts for the less well off too, but it was all aimed at the wealthy primarily. They tried to calm the markets by promising to cut spending on the poorest too afterwards when the crisis started.
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