Bye Bye Liz...

[DaveE]

In the spirit of frying pan/fire, my money's on Liz Truss to be the next PM

Told ya!

[duncs500]

I predict Starmer will win the next GE, and Boris the one after that.

I'm far from convinced Starmer will win. I expect it'll be no majority, but beyond that I think it's impossible to predict, not least given how the next 12mo may or may not pan out.

My assessment of Starmer winning is based on the assumption that the country is going to fall apart economically prior to the next election. I don't think Truss is well equipped to deal with it, but it would probably make little difference who it was. I just think the country will be ready for a change by then (if it's not already).

[duncs500]

You either have rampant inflation or a recession to sort it out. I wouldn’t want to be either party dealing with the economy later this year.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... niesr-says

Stagflation old chap, worst of both worlds.

[DaveE]

Meanwhile at a local level, our wonderful council (any many others are doing the same I'm sure) have just announced that they're going to cut weed spraying down to once a year. This will not only cut harmful pollution, but will cut costs and therefore ensure that the money can be spent elsewhere....most likely on having to clean the overflowing gullies that have led to flooding, or lifting and re-laying kerbing which has been fvcked up by weeds, or paying compo to people that have gashed their leg on a bramble brush that's overgrown the footway, etc. etc.

Brighton and Hove council (where I live) decided to do this a while back

So all the streets/pavements look like the zombie apocalypse finally happened and nature is taking over again

It's made the whole place look awful - like an abandoned city

We live in a bizarre world where terraced houses can cost the thick end of £1m and yet the pavements outside is covered in weeds

[Swervin_Mervin]

Meanwhile at a local level, our wonderful council (any many others are doing the same I'm sure) have just announced that they're going to cut weed spraying down to once a year. This will not only cut harmful pollution, but will cut costs and therefore ensure that the money can be spent elsewhere....most likely on having to clean the overflowing gullies that have led to flooding, or lifting and re-laying kerbing which has been fvcked up by weeds, or paying compo to people that have gashed their leg on a bramble brush that's overgrown the footway, etc. etc.

Brighton and Hove council (where I live) decided to do this a while back

So all the streets/pavements look like the zombie apocalypse finally happened and nature is taking over again

It's made the whole place look awful - like an abandoned city

We live in a bizarre world where terraced houses can cost the thick end of £1m and yet the pavements outside is covered in weeds

Sad isn't it? I was far too happy when watching the road racing at the European Champs in Germany to see that many of the places they were riding through were exactly the same!

[Simon]

Pork markets!

[duncs500]

"Truss will likely be one of Britain's most mediocre prime ministers," tweeted Hu Xijin, a commentator for the Chinese Communist Party-affiliated Global Times.

She's not very popular in Russia and China state media, which is probably a compliment actually.

[ZedLeg]

I’m calling 18 months and a general election.

[duncs500]

If I was a betting man I'd say there was definitely going to be an election in less than 2.5 years.

[Broccers]

Quite depressing this is supposedly the best person available.

edit - price freeze on energy is a brill idea.

How is it being funded? Worse than Labour

[Delphi]

Of course she was the best person available. Did you not see her campaign video?

[PaulJ]

Truss may have won, but she won't be getting my support!

[MikeHunt]

Boris to Liz Truss.

It's like tunnelling out of Joseph Fritzl's basement only to find you've come out in...

Fred West's living room.

[IanF]

I’m not going join in the negativity that’s surrounding our new PM, but I did think this was funny

[jamcg]

[nuttinnew]

From the replies;

[ZedLeg]

Therese Coffey and Rees Mogg in the new cabinet. Moving quickly to show that there won’t be any improvement in the quality of governance

[scotta]

[Nefarious]

The words frying pan and fire spring to mind

We now have by far the most right wing government ever in the history of the UK.
Shocked but not surprised as each of the cabinet appointments got announced - no-marks, zealots and outright wankers chosen solely for the purposes of mutual back scratching, gammon appeasing and continuing Boris' legacy of emptying the national piggy bank into their own pockets.

Suella Braverman at the Home Office? She stood for PM on a ticket of "none of the others are Brexity enough, I will personally piss on the corpses of dead migrant children, huzzah!". Nobody thought Preti could be outdone for sheer callous evil, but Suella has just stood up and asked the nation to hold her pint.
Reece Mogg to business? It's like building a money pipeline straight to his offshore pocket
Cleverly and Coffey to Foreign and Health? Definitely appointed on merit, and in no way a backroom deal for their support in her candidacy.

All led by a fucking imbecile totally devoid of any charisma, who only stands where she is by virtue of being less brown than Rishi.

So in between crashing around the international stage offending everyone and splashing around a liberal helping of childish jingoism, she'll pay off the bribe to the Tory coffin-dodgers with yet more borrowing, drive interest rates up to 10%, and stand idly by while inflation noses 20%. But of course, for all the bleating about taking steps to combat inflation, it's clearly a deliberate policy to reduce the size of the government debt (and conveniently line the pockets of the property-owning Tory membership and donor list).

The best we can hope for is that the shitshow is *so* catastrophic that even the fumbling, bickering, and charmless Labour might stand a chance in the next election.

Gawd help us all

[JonMad]

And overjoyed (or not) at the appointment of my MP Rahul as Env Secretary.