The former PM has written a long essay on what happened in 2022 when she was PM for 44 days. She introduced the fiscal policy that she always said she was going to do. Conservative MPs said “yeah! That’s more like it!” and the Daily Mail’s headline said “AT LAST! A TRUE Tory Budget!”
The trouble is that the knock-on effect on gilt markets sent pension funds hurtling towards insolvency and then the spooked equities markets ran for their lives. This meant the Treasury had to find 65 billion pounds to stabilise everything. Seemingly, Rishi Sunak knew that this would happen and every single other economic commentator alive. And the Daily Mail. And those Tories who voted for her 6 weeks earlier.
So why did nobody tell Liz or Kwasi Karteng? That’s the main beef Truss has with all of this, according to the article.
She learned of the consequences after-the-fact and was blindsided by political opponents in her own party who knew this would happen – and then once it did, they cane in and took power themselves.
Truss talks about a left-leaning sentiment in the country but it’s mainly an economic system calibrated to maintain the status quo, no matter what. If you mess with it, you’re toast. Or lettuce, in her case. If Corbyn had been PM there might well have been similar economic turmoil but for opposite reasons.
So – would you like to hear what I think she’s really saying? She’s saying the entire economic system needs an overhaul because she tried do a REALLY Tory bit of fiscal policy and it wouldn’t let her. I think she is imagining herself as a leader of a breakaway Conservative Party that adheres to Conservative values and will work to remove the economic constraints currently in place.
So yes, she’s making a comeback but this is the solo career. She’s changed her agent, she’s wearing espadrilles and dressed in crinkly white linen.
Her tenure was a disaster and the but-nobody-told-me defence is pathetic but I 100% support her bid to lead a TRUE Conservative Party. I think that’s what’s coming.
Are you yearning for the days of Harold, Selwyn and Rab? I’d take that over the last ten years’ worth of arsebaskets and fucktrumpets any day (and that includes Truss), but I’d rather have a proper grown-up Labour government.
“lead a TRUE Conservative Party” I don’t think she could lead a horse to water.
She could certainly drive said horse to drink
Truss claming she “wasn’t told” is rather like a kid who despite being repeatedly told not to play with matches ends up burning down the family home anyway.
Only person less likely to mount a comeback was released from chokey late last week
What a deluded little woman. It’s like the kid going into the sweetshop with a pound to spend but having a tantrum because he really wanted to spend £10. If she cannot see that what she wanted to do was folly then she is clearly unfit for any roll in politics.
Off with her head.
@Matt-Hooper
Unfortunately, Matt, Truss did fuck us, and her economic ineptitude will continue
to fuck us for the foreseeable future
I made a mistake in the OP – she only spaffed 45 billion. I also need to clarify that I do not actually want anyone to reflect true Conservative values. But if this is a tilt at setting up a second Conservative Party which splits them up, I’m all for it.
Continuity Conservatives? The Real Conservatives? Conservative State? The People’s Front of Conservatism? The Antisocial Undemocratic Party? The Illiberal Alliance? The Village Green Demolition Society? GreenWar? Enemies of the Earth? Does It Offend You, Yeah? (I think this last one’s taken -ed)
Amazingly, there was a breakaway right-wing party here in NZ. Its name? The Conservative Party.
Splitters!!
She didn’t actually spunk 45 billion. That’s like the headlines about how much they spent on Covid track and trace, it’s a good stick to beat them with but it’s not true
I’m not disagreeing with the general point that she’s a deluded halfwit. The fact that the Tories could elect such an intellectually inept weirdo shows they are not for for office
The problem with all political ideologies is that when they fail they just weren’t whatever they were enough. ‘But this isn’t really Brexit’ ‘Genuine Communism has never been tried’ and so on and so on. It’s akin to the No True Scotsman Falacy.
It wasn’t just the disastrous economic decisions that did for her though. My main memory of her tenure was the appalling performance in front of an audience. The awkward silence as she tried to remember which of her briefed answers would spout forth – regardless of their relevance to the actual question. Rarely seen a politician so hapless at speaking in public.
Scary that she hasn’t just slunk away from the political stage.
Johnson spoke bollocks, but it was fluent bollocks. Truss couldn’t even manage that.
Remember him this way…
Not ever ever ever ever going to click on that because Johnson and because Daily Mail, but scrolling past it I thought it said “Seize the Women”. There’s a cause the blonde blob could get behind, in more ways than one, what chums??
I will never forgive him, as he repeatedly pleads.
Two colleagues got the chance to have a selfie with him at an event. I was so pleased I wasn’t in the room with them. I don’t know what I would have done. It would have been hard to maintain the neutrality my job demands.
Which calls to mind that question they ask you if you’re subscriber of the week in the Staggers; “Who would you least like to be stuck in a lift with?”. I’ve often thought that, were I to be asked that question, my initial response would be to ask whether the person I’d be stuck in the lift with had to still be alive when I was rescued. The answer to that question would have a huge influence upon which person I chose to be closeted with.
The Grauniad used to have a similar exercise in interviews: which person, living or dead, do you most despise? Not that I was ever likely to be asked, but my answer was always going to be Rupert Murdoch. These days the only possible answer would be: How long have you got?
I got to the bit where she was brought down by the “left wing economic establishment” and started hooting. The Bank Of England, the Treasury, hedge fund managers, banking executives….bloody Marxists, the lot of them.
I stand in solidarity with the comrades on the shop floor of Goldman Sachs.
In the same way my musical career was brought down by the music biz establishment. If only they’d given me enough time and cash, everyone would have come to appreciate the atonal singing and arhythmic root-note-plodding bass lines.
As it is, we’re stuck with 12 notes to the scale, four beats to the bar and a slavish following of “tunes”.
If you’d been a few years older and met John Lennon before he stepped over the threshold of the Indica Gallery and met Yoko Ono how differently your life might have panned out
Oh, my!
Her party and fellow travellers in the media are also convinced that the country is populated by leftie lawyers, leftie scientists etc. In order to make space for this incursion, the actual left is now shoved to be hard left, you know, people like teachers and paramedics. And me, apparently.
And while we’re on the subject, I notice the AW’s “less left” contributors hardly ever come here these days. Which is a pity. I miss the discussions.
Yebbut Lefties are evil. That’s been scientifically proved.
@gary I agree. Although I can’t remember anyone supporting the Conservatives on the political threads.
That’s true. Though I always maintain (rather boringly, as it happens) that taking a stand against Labour amounts to supporting Conservative where General Elections are concerned, such is the UK voting system.
But it’s morally offensive to vote Labour unless they are led by someone who is absolutely perfect.
So we’re stuck with the Conservatives forever, but that’s not our fault.
Worse, we’re stuck with Brexit forever. Or rather you are. I’ve had to go through the whole palaver of becoming officially foreign just soze I can smirk at your misfortune.
The polls are now fairly consistent, pointing to around a 20% Labour lead, and with Keir Starmer’s personal rating above Rishi Sunak’s. There is no particular reason to think this will change, but a lot of political commentators seem reluctant to follow through to the conclusion that this is likely to give the Conservatives about 120 seats at the most. I don’t know why. I suppose the feeling that you can’t have dramatic change in British politics, ignoring for example the contrasting fortunes of the SNP and the Liberals over the past ten years. Or just a fear of jinxing it. I know some say the haphazard requirements for voter ID will not favour Labour, but it could easily be the opposite – the older Conservative voter may be more likely not to turn up with it. I know from friends in Labour that the canvassers will be reminding people about the ID requirement and also that postal votes don’t require it ( most of us who got one of these in lockdown are probably going to have one anyway by default.) Any stories of people being turned away from the polling booths in the May elections will be very damaging to the government, and could force a turnaround, or at least a more open policy on what is required.
Yes, I had the same thought. Could backfire on them big time.
No it’s just bien pensants and virtue signallers as far as the eye can see.
Where’s @ianess when you need him most, eh?
You took the words right out of my mouth. I wouldn’t go so far as to say I yearn for his return, but his rigorous views (apart from those on Sinatra) added a certain something to discussions.
Ianess is the Afterworder I would most like to see make a return. He was outstanding at calling all of us out on our bullshit.
Even when we weren’t actually talking bullshit.
Yes, I remember that occasion too 😉
…By offering a lot of alternative/reactionary bullshit.
I for one miss the smug way in which ianess would routinely dismiss anyone who disagreed with him as smug.
I see. It was all somebody else’s fault. In fact, lots of somebody elses’.
We didn’t deserve her. She’s right, but not in the way she thinks.
As a fully paid up member of the Guardian reading wokerati, I am obviously delighted to see the Tories imploding into their own parallel universe. And to think, it is all the fault of lefties like me who just haven’t wished hard enough. It reminds me of Woodstock where everyone chanted ‘no rain, no rain, no rain’….and then it pissed down.
Conservatives eh? Dontcha just love ’em?
Sputnik Rat helps you pass the time.
Generously proportioned, oblong merkin there.
Saw this this morning.
Letter in Saturday’s i.
Norfolk constituent vox-pop on R4 this weekend: “She should be back in number 10, she got the pothole outside my house fixed the next day.”
At a cost of £46Billion, but who’s counting?
Mate, you’re confusing her with Rod Stewart. Wrong blonde. We’ve all done it.
The First Benefit Cut is the Deepest
The Killing of Georgie Osborne (Part I)
I Was Only Joking
Maggie Meh
Failing
Da Ya Think I”m Blaming the Left Wing Establishment For My Downfall?
In other deluded fool news, Moz has accused Capitol Records of signing him in order to “intentionally sabotage” the release of his new album, Bonfire of Teenagers.
@fentonsteve
Eh? Seriously?
Yep, incredibly. He’s quite capable of sabotaging his career himself, without the help of Capitol.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/morrissey-capitol-records-signed-album-b2278119.html
Just think how horrid a supergroup of Moz, Van, Rog, Eric would be. Know any deluded drummers?
Hunt Sales is an absolute arsehead. There you go.
All the more reason to miss Ginger Baker.
Ringo was in favour of Brexit, despite not living in UK for more than 40 years
Compared to the rest of the band, Bongo just being a Brexit-supporter would be pretty mild. A great big country like the USA must have quite a selection of sexist, racist MAGA sticksmen to choose from.
And Eric, these days, is just too boring to be in such company.
Eric can accompany VTM in Covid Conspiracy Corner.
Front page footnote from the most recent Private Eye (#1591 – 3 Feb-16 Feb 2023):
“Tories to bring back integrity, professionalism, accountability and Boris Johnson”