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Maybe she’s pretty academic but just a ****ing arsehole?
And now here she is grifting away for a stance that, taken to its ultimate conclusion, will see the Tories legalise drugs.
That's the thing, I was desperately hoping an interviewer might ask her about her stance WRT legalised Heroin or Cocaine this morning.
Not been able to listen to all of her doing the meeja rounds today, but has anyone challenged her new found libertarianism with that (rather obvious) line yet?
Maybe she’s pretty academic but just a **** arsehole?
That doesn't seem to to stack up. The evidence is that her Dad is Maths professor, she claims to be fascinated with numbers yet doesn't really understand the economy. She went to a fancy school in Leeds, then did PPE at Oxford - most of the senior MPs across the house do PPE at Oxford. It's like the gateway into Parliament for middle-class entitled twerps who think they are born to rule the rest of us, yet they're not that intelligent.
The best thing about Truss V2.0 is that its clear she's got some serious right-wing finacial backing and probably had some eye wateringly expensive coaching sessions, and she's still completely shit
An Oxford PPE does however create a whole different world of entitlement and opportunity based on “establishment momentum” rather then merit, that is clearly an alien world to most of us inhabit.
Corrected that for you, having seen the inside of that bubble for the last 3 years.
And now here she is grifting away for a stance that, taken to its ultimate conclusion, will see the Tories legalise drugs.
Whoa there. Won't happen until Big Weed is pumping the money into Tufton Street and the Conservative Party.
The evidence is that her Dad is Maths professor, she claims to be fascinated with numbers yet doesn’t really understand the economy. She went to a fancy school in Leeds, then did PPE at Oxford – most of the senior MPs across the house do PPE at Oxford.
Regression to the mean. Having two bright parents does not guarantee a bright kid. Getting into Oxford to do PPE is not out of reach for a mediocre pupil with the right schooling and preparation.
Imagine how dim she must be to end up like this, despite having brainy parents on tap and a vastly superior education?
I know a couple of PPE Oxford people who are perfectly normal and not entitled.
The established route of awfully frightfully posh grammar, then PPE, then politics is sadly representative of many MPs
she claims to be fascinated with numbers yet doesn’t really understand the economy.
Doesn't seem to really understand numbers.
nickc
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The best thing about Truss V2.0 is that its clear she’s got some serious right-wing finacial backing and probably had some eye wateringly expensive coaching sessions, and she’s still completely shit
She really is a different person from what she once was or at least, she hid it well in her Libdem and earlier Tory years.
From the cheese speech to the restrained though deluded performance she now gives must have cost a packet, as you say.
I also agree about the backers. If she was a kid she'd be getting the parental lecture about "hanging around with the wrong crowd" and are they really your friends?"
She doesn't really seem to understand anything at all, prefering to live in the far right fantasyworld that exists only inside her head.
Lets face it, by any metric she's an out and out ****ing weirdo!
The best thing about Truss V2.0 is that its clear she’s got some serious right-wing finacial backing and probably had some eye wateringly expensive coaching sessions, and she’s still completely shit
Spot on. And btw I have tea all down me now
She can’t even hold her book the right way up!
With her reappearance hawking her book, she’s getting referred to as former pm. I think they should change that to failed pm.
"I think firstly we have many recent examples that an oxbridge education, especially a PPE, doesn’t signify brilliance or any special dedication, work ethic or intelligence."
Tell me you didn't get into Oxbridge without etc etc...
But seriously: OK, that may be true. She's a provincial outsider that achieves nothing special in your eyes. Painting her as "London elite" is even more misleading in that case.
I find this actually quite horrible. She along with her daft acolytes almost crashed the economy and continue to cause a huge percentage of the country financial harm through increased mortgage payments if not more. That she is not treated as a pariah sickens me TBH
If you listen to her pathetic excuses on that Newscast interview for what happened when she drove the economy off a cliff, it’s glaringly apparent what a clueless halfwit she actually is
Its hardly a ringing endorsement of Oxbridge PPE graduates and the rest of Westminster has many many more examples of the same dysfunctional establishment sausage machine, not least her equally brain dead sidekick Kamikwasi
Listened to the full interview, good lord 🤯
She’s a provincial outsider that achieves nothing special in your eyes. Painting her as “London elite” is even more misleading in that case.
Who went into some specialised accounting jobs directly after Oxford. Bean counters have no business managing things, they should be used as advisers. (Spoiler I work for a management accountant but he's a rare breed who listens to advice and knows his limitations, Ms Truss is not such a person).
In @binners quote on the previous page, is she saying Boris touched people in ways they didn't like? Surely that's not what she's written.
If anyone thinks what Truss/Kwarteng did in spiking the economy was accidental or the result of incompetence, it is they who are deluded.
as there's no insert image anymore its all links now I guess 😕
"In @binners quote on the previous page, is she saying Boris touched people in ways they didn’t like? Surely that’s not what she’s written."
I was totally suckered in by it as well but apparently it's a parody.
A very good one, as it's absurd but also believable.
Every time I hear her, I really get the impression that she isn't well (in between the ears).
How the **** she got to the point where she was RUNNING THE COUNTRY, should really worry us all.
See also, Donald Trump...
apparently it’s a parody.
A very good one, as it’s absurd but also believable.
It’s telling that if you look on Twitter there are actual quotes and there are piss-take parody quotes, but it’s virtually impossible to distinguish them from one another, so ludicrous are her ‘accidental Partridge’ statements
There's a quiz on the Guardian, you have to guess the actual quotes from her book, its not a massive surprise to say that many of the right answer read like parody.
There’s a quiz on the Guardian, you have to guess the actual quotes from her book, its not a massive surprise to say that many of the right answer read like parody.
Try it for yourself
9/16. That. Is. A. Disgrace!
9/16 need to ignore her in future.
8/16 hope I never need to hear of her again.
Well a lot Truss 'anti-fan' club doing a great job of talking her down on the radio whilst pointing out she's got a book out.
Well done on the marketing to all involved.
The publishers are well aware that she’s a laughable figure in this country to all but a small band of swivel-eyed loons, so the book won’t sell at all here. We’ve all had quite enough of her shit
It is aimed squarely at the US market, which is full of fat right/MAGA nutjobs who lap this shit up. They’re the few people stupid enough to believe her conspiracy theory nonsense
She stood on a platform with Steve Bannon while he praised Tommy Robinson for a very good reason. That is the market for her latest grift
Well done on the marketing to all involved.
Do you remember the hullaballoo when Jacob R-M wrote that book about notable Victorians and he'd included just the one woman in the whole thing? My wife's party piece is that she writes v dry academic works, and her last book has consistently outsold his pile of rubbish.
I doubt Liz's book is going to be a massive hit just because we're talking about it.
She's also betting that the UK, with the help of a slow and constant poisoning of the media landscape by the "think tanks" she's in contact with, will be closer to the USA in 5 or 10 years time as regards public politics than it is now. She's not old... she could have a very long public grifting career here in the UK if she plays it right. This book can sell bugger all and she can still get paid in the long run.
It is aimed squarely at the US market, which is full of fat right/MAGA nutjobs who lap this shit up. They’re the few people stupid enough to believe her conspiracy theory nonsense
I'd be amazed if, between them, they could muster a single shit about a UK ex-PM has to say. That's even before taking into account her record breaking time in office.
On the contrary. They’ll all absolutely love her narrative that she was ‘brought down by lefties’
That’s what Trump has been (highly successfully) selling them for years
Its laughable over here, especially as it’s the Bank of England etc who she’s accusing of being socialists, but she knows full well that they lap that tinfoil-helmeted claptrap up over there
The publishers are well aware that she’s a laughable figure in this country to all but a small band of swivel-eyed loons, so the book won’t sell at all here
I will be keeping a vague eye out for it in charity/remainder shops. Whilst not keen to hand her any money I think it could be hilarious/depressing insight into the tufton street loons.
Her publishers dont seem to have much confidence about it selling. Her advance was 1.5k.
Her advance was 1.5k.
Fair price. She probably didn't write it herself anyway.
binnersFull Member
On the contrary. They’ll all absolutely love her narrative that she was ‘brought down by lefties’
The probably do, in a limited sense. She struggled to get anyone to turn up to listen to her talk didn't she? From my, limited as I have some family in the US, the UK barely shows on their radar.
I will be keeping a vague eye out for it in charity/remainder shops. Whilst not keen to hand her any money I think it could be hilarious/depressing insight into the tufton street loons.
+1
I have said this before and I think it rings true. On top of being a “swivel-eyed loon” and thick as mince or a “Boxing Day turd” (C) Binners. She always strikes me as the kind of person who was desperate to be popular at school in the sixth form - but never quite was.
"she could have a very long public grifting career here in the UK if she plays it right."
I don't think that's right. Apart from Nigel Farage (the original and best), no-one has made a go of it in the UK. The populist grifter market is so.unstable. The problem is that there's always someone more loopy and cheaper than you. Laurence Fox, Russell Brand, Dan Wootton...they're all scrabbling around for the dregs of online audiences.
Obviously in the US you have to admit that Trump is a master. But apart from him and Alex Jones - think of how many others even in Trump's orbit have come and gone, the bubble burst.
Also, the point about pandering to US wingnuts is not because she'll sell a lot of books. It's that these shadowy Koch-funded organisations have plenty of money to chuck around for speakers...and besides, who else is going to buy the advice of the unambiguously worst Prime Minister ever? It's the only market remaining.
She always strikes me as the kind of person who was desperate to be popular at school in the sixth form – but never quite was.
Indeed! Boris Johnson was exactly the same.
They’re so shallow and vacuous that they desperately seek affirmation. Yet they consistently miss, or more likely dismiss out-of-hand the most effective way of doing this … by being a decent human being. Neither of them had much interest in that.
One of Johnson’s aides said about him that he had no actual friends and that was because the more you got to know him, the less you liked him. I expect Truss is much the same
no-one has made a go of it in the UK
See the rest of my post that you clipped that statement from. That is, who she is connected with and the work they are doing to make the public political landscape more like the USA. What is to come... not what has been the case in the past.
I think Kelvin has it here. For being so useless, Truss remains an astonishingly well-backed outrider for certain wealthy American interests on the economically laissez-faire\libertarian end of the spectrum. For them, her only mistake was pulling the pin on that budget before the country was ready, and even then, there'll have been lessons learned there.
binnersFull Member
The publishers are well aware that she’s a laughable figure in this country to all but a small band of swivel-eyed loons, so the book won’t sell at all here. We’ve all had quite enough of her shitIt is aimed squarely at the US market, which is full of fat right/MAGA nutjobs who lap this shit up. They’re the few people stupid enough to believe her conspiracy theory nonsense
All funded by the Koch Brothers, IEA, Tuften st lobby groups, Peter Theil/ellen musk and the rest of the tech bros who want unfettered free markets, Libertarian lobby groups etc...etc.
https://twitter.com/thehistoryguy/status/1780487864502923563?t=s-rEYweG_208FHzIeoPKIw&s=19
This whole nonsense about unelected people is actually quite dangerous - it's building on the "we've had enough of experts" narrative from Brexit and giving people the idea that anyone in any position of power needs to be elected.
Yet another one from the populist playbook.
Some unelected people, exercising their power...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67843755
Britain's shortest-serving prime minister Liz Truss has unveiled her resignation honours list, sparking an angry backlash from some critics.
Ms Truss, who spent 49 days in office, nominated Conservative donor Jon Moynihan and ex-Vote Leave chief Matthew Elliott for seats in the Lords.
Ruth Porter, a former senior Truss aide, is also made a peer.
Willie Sullivan, senior director for campaigns at the Electoral Reform Society, said: "It will feel like an insult to many to see Liz Truss handing out peerages to friends and supporters after her disastrously short stint as prime minister.
"It looks like the political class dishing out rewards for failure at a time when many people are still suffering the effects from her turbulent premiership."
Truss is on Peston in a min for anyone else keen to know the signs that a loved one might be experiencing delirium.
frankconway
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Oh truck, was going to watch until I knew she was on; the cost of replacing my TV is…too much.
I'm the opposite, I actually want to watch her as I've actually avoided her book launch madness other than the quotes out on here. Mostly anyway. I think it's likely to be even more farcical in the flesh though.
Id love to know what the book sales will be like. It should be chased as fiction though surely?!
Lol, Peston just said the book's title is "It Wasn't Me."😂
She didn't know about the "tinder box"
ElShalimo
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She didn’t know about the “tinder box”
Amazing stuff. What's with the robotic hands thing too?
Caher
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Oh good, I needed a giggle and in this case a laugh at the afflicted. Peston is now a must before bed.
I'm putting the bins out after Truss has finished blaming the world for her demise. Fitting.
Ah crap. She's eating into the Gazan war now.
Bunker time.
The brief delay before she answers the question is accompanied by a weird blinking then staring episode
Is someone talking in her ear? Is she a North Korean bot?
Is there a person in there?
It's Elon Musk's attempt at chat GPT. The Blinking Truss.
ElShalimo
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The brief delay before she answers the question is accompanied by a weird blinking then staring episodeIs someone talking in her ear? Is she a North Korean bot?
Is there a person in there?
I think she is exposing a lot of costly training in public speaking, it's still an act she finds hard to keep up. The cheese brain is still in control really, hence the pause. It's allowing time to translate between the cheese brain and how other normal people communicate.
If you listen carefully in the gap before she answers, you can hear the cogs and gears start whirring and clicking like an old cuckoo clock
Heres an interesting article in this mornings Guardian about the denial of Truss and the other Tufton Street cult members in the Tory Party
If you listen carefully in the gap before she answers, you can hear the cogs and gears start whirring and clicking like an old cuckoo clock
if you look into her eyes, you can see the hamsters and their wheels. its just that the hamsters are all dead
if you look into her eyes, you can see the hamsters and their wheels. its just that the hamsters are all dead
She really is the living embodiment of the phrase "all the lights are on but there's no-one home".
Is that in the children's department ^^^
I've never understood why Tufton Street chose her to be their representative on Earth. There must be at least some intelligent, engaging people willing to take their shilling to defend the indefensible?
Regarding the robotic thing, could she be one of these in drag? Not just swivel eyed, total swivel head too.
Maybe someone should knock her over and she if she stands up in the same way the bot does? I'd pay to see it.
Is anyone else surprised that she didn't seek final official sign off?!
She'd probably see it as some sort of woke control of her freedom of speech. 🙄
I love Ian Dunt. His appraisal of Truss is brutal
The broken psychology of Liz Truss
“Truss at first seemed like a joke. Hapless, ineffectual, politically vacuous, genuinely mad, hopelessly uncharismatic. She wasn't even a bad politician. She was like a crude impersonation of a bad politician by a terrible actor. The layers of her inadequacy were endless. You would peel one away - principles, say, or policy - and then find another lying underneath: a Russian doll made of shite”
Ha, ha, spot on!
Thats a brilliant review 😂
You
"We’ve only got 10 years to save the west" Written in the style of an excitable five-year-old on acid.
Oh my gummy bears and glittery rainbows! 🌈🍬🌟
So, like, listen up, grown-ups! Liz Truss, the super-duper, mega-wega, ultra-fantastic conservative hero, wrote this book called “Ten Years to Save the West.” 📚🌎
And guess what? It’s like a crazy-awesome adventure where she battles the evil forces of left-wing political agendas and rides on unicorn farts to fight for freedom! 🦄💨
Liz says, “Hey, dudes and dudettes, we’ve got only ten tiny years to save our super-cool Western way of life from the clutches of authoritarianism!” 😱🕰️
She’s all like, “Yo, let’s preserve our cotton candy clouds of economic and cultural freedom! No more boring socialism, taxes, or regulations, okay?” 🍭💰🚫
And Boris Johnson, the big boss of Britain, he’s like, “Liz Truss is right, peeps! We need to unleash enterprise, boost growth, and reject the global left’s nonsense!” 🇬🇧👊
So, grab your marshmallow fluff, hop on your gumdrop rocket, and join the quest to save the West! 🚀🌟
Remember, if you ignore Liz’s warning, you might end up in a bubblegum shark-infested moat. And nobody wants that, right? 🦈🍬
Go, go, go! Read her book, learn the lessons, and let’s keep our Western vibes alive! 📖🌟🎉
P.S. Liz Truss rocks, and so do you! 🤘