Liz Truss Prime Minister

[swanny71]

Should’ve played the Mission Impossible theme tune as she walked to the podium…

[stongle]

If you look back at the Boris thread (before he resigned); its interesting how this result was called (and reasons why); way in advance.

Depends on how you view the depth of talent in the party, being less presidential than Boris - has to be a good thing.

Hope she stays laser focused on cost of living / fuel prices and ignores; and not goes poking the EU with A16.

[the-photographer]

cc3 said:

Whatever your party politics my view is she needs a chance. Whoever is leader has a pretty impossible task.

Can we start with a competent Cabinet then?

[valiant]

the-photographer said:

cc3 said:

Whatever your party politics my view is she needs a chance. Whoever is leader has a pretty impossible task.

Can we start with a competent Cabinet then?

Will she try and unite the party and bring in Sunak supporters into cabinet positions or will be it be just a continuation of Boris and fill with acolytes?

If she can’t unite the party then what chance has she in a GE?

[Al Gorithum]

Gargamel said:

Al Gorithum said:

Oh good. 80k people (who think that Boris did a great job) has decided who is PM for the next 2 years.

She is an imbecile.

Do tell us about your stellar achievements ?



Truss attended Merton College, Oxford, and was President of Oxford University Liberal Democrats. In 1996, she both graduated and joined the Conservative Party. She worked at Shell and Cable & Wireless, and was deputy director of the think tank Reform. Truss was elected for South West Norfolk at the 2010 general election. As a backbencher, she called for reform in several policy areas including childcare, mathematics education and the economy. She founded the Free Enterprise Group of Conservative MPs and wrote or co-wrote a number of papers and books, including After the Coalition (2011) and Britannia Unchained (2012).

Truss served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Childcare and Education from 2012 to 2014, before being appointed to the Cabinet by Cameron as Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in the 2014 cabinet reshuffle. Though she was a supporter of the Britain Stronger in Europe campaign for the UK to remain in the European Union in the 2016 referendum, she supported Brexit after the result. After Cameron resigned in July 2016, Truss was appointed Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor by May, becoming the first female Lord Chancellor in the thousand-year history of the office. Following the 2017 general election, Truss was appointed Chief Secretary to the Treasury. After May resigned in 2019, Truss supported Johnson's bid to become Conservative leader. He appointed Truss as Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade. She took on the additional role of Minister for Women and Equalities in September 2019. She moved from the Department for International Trade to be promoted to Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs in the 2021 cabinet reshuffle. She was appointed the Government's chief negotiator with the European Union and UK chair of the EU–UK Partnership Council in December 2021.

Fortunately for you lot I'm not PM.

My achievements you ask? Not much really outside of multiple businesses owner, generator of income for many families, payer of significant amounts of tax.

In case you missed it, Truss made a mess of pretty much every Govt post held.

We're doomed...

[snoopy25]

Joey Deacon said:

Fantastic

[andy43]

abzmike said:

She isn't actually PM yet.. needs the invitation and handshake from her Maj.

Brenda said:

One has just had one’s garse contract renewal arrive. Get it sorted sharpish or you’re orf to the Tower.

[the-photographer]

valiant said:

the-photographer said:

cc3 said:

Whatever your party politics my view is she needs a chance. Whoever is leader has a pretty impossible task.

Can we start with a competent Cabinet then?

Will she try and unite the party and bring in Sunak supporters into cabinet positions or will be it be just a continuation of Boris and fill with acolytes?

If she can’t unite the party then what chance has she in a GE?

The leaked list looks very pessimistic, Kwasi Kwarteng, JRM etc the majority are acolytes

[Gary29]

As an eternal optimist, I can't think of a single PM where I haven't at least given them the benefit of the doubt on day one, but this is going to be a train crash.

[eharding]

greygoose said:

768 said:

Recency bias says no, again, even without it being the pork markets lady.

Isn’t she obsessed with cheese?

Not sure about cheese, but it's a well known fact she can't say "Pork Markets" without breaking out a cheeky grin and doing a little backwards moon-walk. Why this is the case isn't clear though.

[Murph7355]

Expectations are very, very low. But let's see what she does next.

Will be interesting to see who she installs in cabinet. If the rumours are true that it'll be Kwarteng as Chancellor (has he leapt forward as Business Sec?), Braverman as Home Sec and Cleverley as Foreign Sec... Then I'm not sure my expectations could be set low enough!

(And is the Queen trolling Sturgeon and/or Truss by having the anointing business done in Scotland? ).

[john2443]

768 said:

I give it about 5 minutes before some start demanding she goes and we spin the wheel again.

www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/boris-johnson-plot-prim...

[vonuber]

How the hell is JRM anywhere near any position for power is beyond me.

[Al Gorithum]

vonuber said:

How the hell is JRM anywhere near any position for power is beyond me.

Because the Tory Party has become utter filth. Angela Rayner was correct.

[768]

john2443 said:

768 said:

I give it about 5 minutes before some start demanding she goes and we spin the wheel again.

www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/boris-johnson-plot-prim...

I gave it way too long.

Liz Truss is dead, long live the next one.

[Seventy]

neilr said:

Liz Truss as PM. It's like tunnelling out of Joseph Fritzls basement only to find you've come out in Fred Wests living room.

I’m going to hell…

[Leithen]

Would everyone in Scotland please vote for Labour again.

[cc3]

john2443 said:

www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/boris-johnson-plot-prim...

And you are so bored with life that you read that stuff! More top quality journalism from MSM seems there only interest is to do the country harm just to fill a few column inches of a comic. MSM get behind the country so that we all benefit from success no they would rather see us get relegation every year

[dundarach]

It's win win for me!

I think Liz is a fking self centred moron who'll make my life and everyone else's significant worse in measurable ways - which if she does - I'm right and I win!

If however I'm wrong and she's brilliant - then I win too!

See, just like Liz, I'm also a winner - yippee!

[anonymous-user]

Al Gorithum said:

vonuber said:

How the hell is JRM anywhere near any position for power is beyond me.

Because the Tory Party has become utter filth. Angela Rayner was correct.

That's the annoying thing, when someone in Parliament can describe members of another political party as 'scum' and this turns out to be fair comment.

I'll give LT a chance (we've got no fking choice) but I'm not holding out much hope. After Boris's dishonesty and ineptitude I'd settle for honesty.