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Liz Truss resigns - nzoomed - 21-10-2022
Well that didnt last long did it!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/477078/liz-truss-resigns-after-six-weeks-as-uk-prime-minister
RE: Liz Truss resigns - harm_less - 21-10-2022
(21-10-2022, 10:13 AM)nzoomed Wrote: Well that didnt last long did it!That really came as no surprise. It was obvious she was well out her depth and failing to tread water.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/477078/liz-truss-resigns-after-six-weeks-as-uk-prime-minister
I guess we've got an interesting zoom session with my partner's daughter in the UK coming up this evening
RE: Liz Truss resigns - nzoomed - 21-10-2022
(21-10-2022, 10:54 AM)harm_less Wrote:(21-10-2022, 10:13 AM)nzoomed Wrote: Well that didnt last long did it!That really came as no surprise. It was obvious she was well out her depth and failing to tread water.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/477078/liz-truss-resigns-after-six-weeks-as-uk-prime-minister
I guess we've got an interesting zoom session with my partner's daughter in the UK coming up this evening
Britain has had an unstable govt ever since brexit, looks like Borris was the longest serving PM post brexit.
Might be better off they just have a snap election.
RE: Liz Truss resigns - Oh_hunnihunni - 21-10-2022
I've been watching the Al Jaz doco on the UK Labour party. That is scary stuff...
Poor Brits. What a choice...
RE: Liz Truss resigns - Lilith7 - 21-10-2022
There's talk of the return of Boris.
Wouldn't be a Brit for quids.
RE: Liz Truss resigns - Foal30 - 21-10-2022
(21-10-2022, 01:31 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: I've been watching the Al Jaz doco on the UK Labour party. That is scary stuff...
Poor Brits. What a choice...
The Labour Files?
The assassination of Corbyn was a remarkable demonstration of how Democracy is a myth us Westerners placate ourselves with.
RE: Liz Truss resigns - Oh_hunnihunni - 22-10-2022
(21-10-2022, 06:40 PM)Foal30 Wrote:(21-10-2022, 01:31 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: I've been watching the Al Jaz doco on the UK Labour party. That is scary stuff...
Poor Brits. What a choice...
The Labour Files?
The assassination of Corbyn was a remarkable demonstration of how Democracy is a myth us Westerners placate ourselves with.
The way ideological corruption was deliberately spread unnoticed was the frightening thing...
RE: Liz Truss resigns - C_T_Russell - 22-10-2022
(21-10-2022, 01:57 PM)Lilith7 Wrote: There's talk of the return of Boris.
Wouldn't be a Brit for quids.
Well this is a no brainer to bring him back wouldnt it?
Why did he even need to resign just over holding a party. Things were running OK with him, just petty politics.
RE: Liz Truss resigns - Lilith7 - 22-10-2022
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10223075392417893&set=a.1516862246185
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/21/the-tories-boris-johnson-crisis-conservatives
"Tories on their knees – and here comes Boris Johnson. Dear reader, look away
Marina Hyde
Who would think a lying, hypocritical degenerate was the answer to this crisis? A large number of Conservatives, apparently
If you feel physically breathless at the current state of British politics, that’s just Boris Johnson immediately sucking all of the oxygen out of the room again. Is the dignity vampire coming back? Unclear. But I know we’re all big fans of lettuces now, so be advised there could be a monstrous 16-stone slug waiting to crawl out of this one and burrow straight into your brain stem.
With a poll this morning putting them just the 39 points behind Labour, a genuinely tragic number of Conservative betas seem to think that only Johnson can fix this/save their jobs.
For now, we must bed in for days of Conservative MPs openly hissing about the damage other Conservative MPs are doing to “the party”, as though the crisis-convulsed country were some distant afterthought. That’s not just a hideously revealing way of talking but a profoundly warped way of thinking. It’s precisely this level of Conservative solipsism that got us here, and we all know the old lines. They simply can’t lose their reputation for competence. If they’re not careful people might just stop looking to them for stability.
Out there in the real world, though, is where the serious fires are raging. Stories of child hunger pour in from teachers every day. This week an elderly patient died after hours in the back of an ambulance outside a Manchester hospital because there were no beds. There are vast black holes in the public finances, and the markets have demonstrably put the UK on suicide watch. Half the country doesn’t work properly any more, and all of the country knows it.
Of the MPs who can surely see all this yet are still going ahead and backing Johnson today, what can honestly be said? Other than: their struggle is finished. They have won the victory over themselves. They love Big Boris."
RE: Liz Truss resigns - Foal30 - 22-10-2022
(22-10-2022, 09:07 AM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote:(21-10-2022, 06:40 PM)Foal30 Wrote: The Labour Files?
The assassination of Corbyn was a remarkable demonstration of how Democracy is a myth us Westerners placate ourselves with.
The way ideological corruption was deliberately spread unnoticed was the frightening thing...
I can’t remember another person who put themselves up for Public Office slaughtered the way Corbin was
We say we have Democracy it the Market will never allow a genuine left wing Government
RE: Liz Truss resigns - Lilith7 - 22-10-2022
Old familiar faces...
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=159726736691599&set=a.154650520532554
RE: Liz Truss resigns - Oh_hunnihunni - 22-10-2022
It is no wonder folk believe conspiracy theories when they turn out to be a lot less theoretical than we imagined.
RE: Liz Truss resigns - jilledge - 27-10-2022
They need a PM with smarts, and it looks like they've got one - also someone that isn't just a politician for the $$