The Lizz Truss Appreciation Thread

"Now, who else can I blame"

 

"I Know"

 

What a stupid bitch

 

"Patience and timing Rishi"

 

The Missing Deputy

 

Mary Elizabeth Truss, 47, is the current prime minister of the United Kingdom and, by extension, the leader of her party – the Conservative Party. She won the race against Rishi Sunak, becoming the third female prime minister of the UK, after Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May – in that order.

Born to a father was was a professor of pure mathematics at the University of Leeds and a mother who was a nurse and teacher, Liz Truss attended West Primary School, Paisley Renfrewshire, Roundhay School, and then spent a year in Canada. The Canadian curriculum impressed her, and she praised it.

She attended Oxford, which ignited her interest in public service, and ended up as a member of the national executive committee of Liberal Democrat Youth and Students in the same institution. As part of the Liberal, she supported, among others, the legalization of cannabis and the abolition of the monarchy.

 

Odds on the next U-Turn ???

 

She will get stoned, then decide. lol

 

The Peoples view: -

 

(Truss back-up job) ?

 

According Kwasi Kwarteng, Liz truss will be gone in weeks. He was useless at fiscal capabilities, so I wonder if he's any good at political forecasting ???

Kwasi Kwarteng ‘thinks Liz Truss will be gone as prime minister in a few weeks’

Jimmy Nsubuga
15 October 2022, 4:36 pm

Liz Truss sacked Kwasi Kwarteng as chancellor. (Reuters)

Kwasi Kwarteng does not think Liz Truss will remain in power for much longer, according to a new report.

Kwarteng, who was sacked as chancellor on Friday, believes the prime minister “will be gone in a few weeks”, The Times cited an unnamed source close to the Tory MP as saying.

Truss’s premiership remains in peril after she replaced the chancellor with Jeremy Hunt and ditched a major part of her mini-budget in a bid to stay in power.

It is unclear whether such drastic actions could be enough to keep her in Downing Street, with the markets remaining jittery and reports of Conservative MPs plotting to replace her.

Read more: Liz Truss abruptly ends brutal eight-minute press conference: 'Aren't you going to apologise?
“Kwasi thinks it only buys her a few more weeks,” the source told The Times.

“His view is that the wagons are still going to circle.”

After three weeks of turmoil on the financial markets in the wake of Kwarteng’s £43 billion mini-budget tax cuts, Truss ended days of frenzied speculation by forcing him out of office and U-turning on her commitment to drop the planned rise in corporation tax from 19% to 25%.

Read more: Voices: Jeremy Hunt is now the de facto prime minister

At a brief news conference in Downing Street on Friday, Truss dismissed calls for her resignation, saying she is “absolutely determined to see through what I have promised”.

It came as she also signalled a new squeeze on public spending which would “grow less rapidly than previously planned”, ahead of the medium-term fiscal plan on 31 October – when Hunt would now set out how he intends to get the public finances back on track.

Hunt, twice a Tory leadership contender and a former foreign secretary, was parachuted in as a safe pair of hands in Number 11 and has indicated tax rises and budget cuts are coming.

Watch: Jeremy Hunt: There were mistakes in mini-budget - and some taxes will go up


It is still to be determined whether Friday’s U-turn will be enough to turn things around for the PM, with multiple reports of Tory MPs and Conservative grandees plotting moves to force her from office.

Former leader Lord Hague warned Truss’s premiership “hangs by a thread”, while Conservative former chancellor Lord Hammond said the events of the past weeks had wrecked the party’s reputation for fiscal discipline.

Loyal MPs on Friday night were urging party colleagues to think again about any bid to oust Truss, who is theoretically safe from a leadership vote for another year under the rules of the backbench 1922 Committee.

Although Tory rebels could push for a change in rules so they can remove her.

Welsh Secretary Sir Robert Buckland, appearing on BBC Radio 4’s Any Questions programme, warned: “I think if we start with gay abandon, throwing another prime minister to the wolves, we’re going to be faced with more delay, more debate, more instability.”