Liz Truss, UK Conservative

[jakee 1,284]

4 minutes ago, Phil1111 said:

"And we set out a vision for a low-tax, high-growth economy that would take advantage of the freedoms of Brexit."

On that, she and Rees-Mogg (the time travelling Victorian lounge lizard) had come up with a bill that will hopefully be scrapped now, which would put a sunset date of Dec 31st 2023 for every single piece of legislation inherited from the EU. Employment protections, worker's rights, health and safety, environmental protections, every aspect of airline and aircraft safety, pollution and waste dumping - you name it. 2,400 laws from 50 years of Work and co-operation with the EU that would all have to be actively reviewed and the minister responsible would have to decide to keep them or they would simply disappear. It's crazy to put that much power in the hands of a few ministers with no oversight, even crazier to think they could genuinely accomplish the task in one year, with everything else they have to do, and make the right decisions.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/25/rees-mogg-lambasts-critics-of-eu-laws-bill-after-quitting-government

[Phil1111 1,016]

1 hour ago, jakee said:

On that, she and Rees-Mogg.....

Given that BoJo and the UK got their asses kicked during the Brexit negotiations. i.e. all of the benefits of EU free trade would benefit the UK but without the regulatory hassles. That UK conservatives wanted to reopen negotiations yet again. Mr.Sunak will have his work cut out for him trying to keep a co-coalition together. It seems as if eating cake in the public inn and leaving w/o paying. Is part of the conservative DNA.

...Sounds like conservatives and Liberals over here.

At least the pound has gone up in the last two days.

[kallend 1,726]

On 10/25/2022 at 6:19 PM, Phil1111 said:

 

At least the pound has gone up in the last two days.

"Always look on the bright side of life" is that an inept leader was ousted in less than 2 months.  We were stuck with Trump for 4 years.

[Phil1111 1,016]

51 minutes ago, kallend said:

"Always look on the bright side of life" is that an inept leader was ousted in less than 2 months.  We were stuck with Trump for 4 years.

And you're stronger for it. ....Oh well at least he's gone.

....er at least he's out of office.

Edited October 27, 2022 by Phil1111

[winsor 204]

3 hours ago, Phil1111 said:

And you're stronger for it. ....Oh well at least he's gone.

....er at least he's out of office.

The Mango Mussolini makes Tricky Dick Nixon look like a shining example of dignity, integrity, honesty and decency by comparison.  40 years ago I would have doubted that such a thing was possible.

[jakee 1,284]

3 hours ago, Phil1111 said:

And you're stronger for it. ....Oh well at least he's gone.

....er at least he's out of office.

The fun's not over yet. After his first speech as PM highlighted the need for integrity and accountability to return to the government, Sunak has already created his first completely pointless and totally avoidable scandal. Suella Braverman is Home Secretary again, six days after being fired as Home Secretary by Truss after committing a serious security breach and multiple violations of the ministerial code. She probably also lied to Truss and Downing Street civil servants about the extent of her actions while she was being fired. But she's back now, all is forgiven, and there's no need for any investigation into whether this was a one time thing or a pattern. Even though the government can't even say if she's been given a full security clearance back. After 12 years in power these people think they're all invincible and they can do whatever the fuck they want.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/27/rishi-sunak-pressed-suella-braverman-serious-breach

[jakee 1,284]

I don’t know if anyone ever thought to track the record for how quickly a minister in a great office of state has been appointed, sacked, re-appointed and re-sacked but I’m pretty sure Suella Braverman is about to break it 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-63444573

[ryoder 1,451]

5 hours ago, jakee said:

I don’t know if anyone ever thought to track the record for how quickly a minister in a great office of state has been appointed, sacked, re-appointed and re-sacked but I’m pretty sure Suella Braverman is about to break it 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-63444573

So the UK now has it's own "But her emails!!!"

[ryoder 1,451]

Effigy of Liz Truss with lettuce to be burned at Edenbridge bonfire night

The 11-metre-high effigy will be burned on Guy Fawkes Night on 5 November in line with Edenbridge’s annual tradition of picking a public figure to ridicule.

LOL!

[kallend 1,726]

1 hour ago, ryoder said:

Effigy of Liz Truss with lettuce to be burned at Edenbridge bonfire night

The 11-metre-high effigy will be burned on Guy Fawkes Night on 5 November in line with Edenbridge’s annual tradition of picking a public figure to ridicule.

LOL!

"The party begins at 6.30pm when a torch-lit procession makes its way through Edenbridge town, led by the bishop of the bonfire, choirboys and the society’s effigies, including Guy Fawkes, General Wolfe and Anne Boleyn, with her head tucked underneath her arm."

General Wolfe came from nearly Westerham, and Ann Boleyn from nearby Hever, so they are both local historical figures.  Guy Fawkes, of course, was not from Kent.  You have Wolfe to thank for driving the French out of N. America.

[gowlerk 2,013]

21 minutes ago, kallend said:

You have Wolfe to thank for driving the French out of N. America.

Around here we still have schools named for him. And that's on the western prairies far from the Plains of Abraham.