Liz Truss Prime Minister
Discussion
Newarch said:
Windfall tax on energy companies?
100% agree but LT doesn't seem keen on that, so I question whether the energy firms fund the Tory Party.If she announces tax cuts for users instead of tax increases on energy firms to deal with the energy crisis, that is effectively the British tax payer funding foreign corporate greed.
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 ? She is an imbecile.
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.
From 2004 until mid-2005, she had an extra-marital affair with the married MP Mark Field
So another PM with a high moral compass.
Al Gorithum said:
Newarch said:
Windfall tax on energy companies?
100% agree but LT doesn't seem keen on that, so I question whether the energy firms fund the Tory Party.If she announces tax cuts for users instead of tax increases on energy firms to deal with the energy crisis, that is effectively the British tax payer funding foreign corporate greed.
As many as 43 members of the House of Lords have investments totalling millions of pounds and senior roles in oil and gas companies, prompting accusations of “unethical” conflicts of interest.
An analysis by The Ferret can reveal that 33 of the peers who help make UK laws have shares worth a minimum of £50,000 in 19 oil and gas companies. A further ten peers chair, direct or advise 15 fossil fuel firms.
Most of the lords linked to big oil are Conservatives — 23 in all — amounting to nearly one in ten of the party’s peers. There are also 17 without political affiliations and three Labour, including five Scottish politicians.
https://theferret.scot/oil-industry-43-peers-share...
Oil and gas firms have given £1m to Boris Johnson’s Conservatives
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-invest...
the-photographer said:
Al Gorithum said:
Newarch said:
Windfall tax on energy companies?
100% agree but LT doesn't seem keen on that, so I question whether the energy firms fund the Tory Party.If she announces tax cuts for users instead of tax increases on energy firms to deal with the energy crisis, that is effectively the British tax payer funding foreign corporate greed.
As many as 43 members of the House of Lords have investments totalling millions of pounds and senior roles in oil and gas companies, prompting accusations of “unethical” conflicts of interest.
An analysis by The Ferret can reveal that 33 of the peers who help make UK laws have shares worth a minimum of £50,000 in 19 oil and gas companies. A further ten peers chair, direct or advise 15 fossil fuel firms.
Most of the lords linked to big oil are Conservatives — 23 in all — amounting to nearly one in ten of the party’s peers. There are also 17 without political affiliations and three Labour, including five Scottish politicians.
https://theferret.scot/oil-industry-43-peers-share...
Oil and gas firms have given £1m to Boris Johnson’s Conservatives
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-invest...
By demographic I should be a Tory voter, but wouldn't give them the steam off my urine.
Al Gorithum said:
Thank you. The Tory Party is a stinking cesspit. I really don't understand why an ordinary (thinking) working person would vote for them.
By demographic I should be a Tory voter, but wouldn't give them the steam off my urine.
Who are the ordinary (thinking) working people supposed to vote for instead?By demographic I should be a Tory voter, but wouldn't give them the steam off my urine.
I really liked the way that, having been formally announced as PM by SurrGraham, she turned to her left to grab her speech from the aid next to her and stood up, walking straight past SlippyRishi without even looking at him.
He made no attempt to offer his hand in congratulation, and she wouldn't have stopped even if he had.
Start as you mean to go on.
The PM is dead, long live the PM.
He made no attempt to offer his hand in congratulation, and she wouldn't have stopped even if he had.
Start as you mean to go on.
The PM is dead, long live the PM.
Reading about her political career it's hardly PM stuff.
Lost her first 3 GE's as a candidate in various West Yorkshire constituents.
She only became an MP in 2010 having been 'parachuted' into a safe Tory seat.
There was grumblings from the local Conservative Party when she was selected because of her affair with a married man.
Lost her first 3 GE's as a candidate in various West Yorkshire constituents.
She only became an MP in 2010 having been 'parachuted' into a safe Tory seat.
There was grumblings from the local Conservative Party when she was selected because of her affair with a married man.
GreatGranny said:
Reading about her political career it's hardly PM stuff.
Lost her first 3 GE's as a candidate in various West Yorkshire constituents.
She only became an MP in 2010 having been 'parachuted' into a safe Tory seat.
There was grumblings from the local Conservative Party when she was selected because of her affair with a married man.
Which is pretty typical - certainly not unusual. Lost her first 3 GE's as a candidate in various West Yorkshire constituents.
She only became an MP in 2010 having been 'parachuted' into a safe Tory seat.
There was grumblings from the local Conservative Party when she was selected because of her affair with a married man.
the-photographer said:
Lets see
As many as 43 members of the House of Lords have investments totalling millions of pounds and senior roles in oil and gas companies, prompting accusations of “unethical” conflicts of interest.
An analysis by The Ferret can reveal that 33 of the peers who help make UK laws have shares worth a minimum of £50,000 in 19 oil and gas companies. A further ten peers chair, direct or advise 15 fossil fuel firms.
Most of the lords linked to big oil are Conservatives — 23 in all — amounting to nearly one in ten of the party’s peers. There are also 17 without political affiliations and three Labour, including five Scottish politicians.
https://theferret.scot/oil-industry-43-peers-share...
Oil and gas firms have given £1m to Boris Johnson’s Conservatives
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-invest...
So if you had a pension you wouldn’t draw it? Hope no one in your family is drawing a pension. Every fund will have investments in gas, oil etc as the dividends historically have been good. In your world the state would just pay you in old age ?As many as 43 members of the House of Lords have investments totalling millions of pounds and senior roles in oil and gas companies, prompting accusations of “unethical” conflicts of interest.
An analysis by The Ferret can reveal that 33 of the peers who help make UK laws have shares worth a minimum of £50,000 in 19 oil and gas companies. A further ten peers chair, direct or advise 15 fossil fuel firms.
Most of the lords linked to big oil are Conservatives — 23 in all — amounting to nearly one in ten of the party’s peers. There are also 17 without political affiliations and three Labour, including five Scottish politicians.
https://theferret.scot/oil-industry-43-peers-share...
Oil and gas firms have given £1m to Boris Johnson’s Conservatives
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-invest...
cc3 said:
cirian75 said:
how long before the 1st major cock/up-turn?
I give it 6 hours
Have you never made a mistake in life before or are you totally prefect ! I give it 6 hours
What I think people take exception to is the unwillingness of politicians to simply say "I was wrong" or "I changed my mind".
Instead we seem to be in some fresh hell where politicians will claim that the original decision was absolutely correct and the subsequent u-turn was also absolutely correct (or isn't a u-turn) even if the only thing that's changed in between is them being made to look foolish or they've been shamed into it.
See Rashford and school meals for a good example.
Al Gorithum said:
Thank you. The Tory Party is a stinking cesspit. I really don't understand why an ordinary (thinking) working person would vote for them.
By demographic I should be a Tory voter, but wouldn't give them the steam off my urine.
So that would apply then to any friends or members of your family who have invested in a pension or are living off a pension. You would want to treat them the same way By demographic I should be a Tory voter, but wouldn't give them the steam off my urine.
MDMA . said:
As you seem to like copy/paste from Wikipedia, you missed the best bit out.
From 2004 until mid-2005, she had an extra-marital affair with the married MP Mark Field
So another PM with a high moral compass.
Do we want high moral politicians? because it does feel like 99% of politicians we get have in some way feet of clay. From 2004 until mid-2005, she had an extra-marital affair with the married MP Mark Field
So another PM with a high moral compass.
Plus the ones that really do have proper moral and ethical standards I usually can't stand ! Need people that are as close to normal in how they live and operate as possible.
cirian75 said:
how long before the 1st major cock/up-turn?
I give it 6 hours
I've never really got this critising people for u-turns.I give it 6 hours
Of course we all want leaders to make correct decision's all the time, but back in the real world I want a leader who can recognise a wrong decision / path and be bold enough to correct it rather than to blindly continue.
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