Liz Truss news – live: PM resigns after less than seven weeks in Downing Street

[epebble]

Boris has pulled out... dodgy indian has a chance to become UK prime minister...

He will be a dumb guy to pick up this grenade. Better to call elections and handover the coming collapse to Labour.

 

[zectech]

LOL, this is hilarious

https://twitter.com/x/status/1583594731161919488

 

[Turingsage]

if Sunak has any political guile, he should stay away from this game of thrones for now.

Unfortunately for a man who has everything, the siren song of power is hard to resist.

Maybe Boris realizes it’s not the best time to take the job and get the blame. Better to let Sunak get it now and lose to labor in the general election, knocking out Sunak for the long term.

Boris is an inveterate liar fired from SIX DIFFERENT JOBS FOR LYING. He could muster ONLY 54 MP's to back him to Sunak's 150.
He was STILL PEDLING LIES by claiming support of 102. He went into talks with Sunak and Penny and offered them any jobs they wanted, they BOTH told him to take a running jump.

Bojo cannot help himself from telling one lie after another. 50 MINISTERS resigned from his govt because this story telling PM was someone they could not work with.

Bojo is a entertainer , not a politician.

 

[epebble]

Unfortunately for a man who has everything, the siren song of power is hard to resist.

It will be bad if U.K. loses (politically) a young smart guy like Rishi for this gutter politics. Normally associated with "Third World" (and Italy and Israel ...)

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

UK is spending way too money money on the money losing Ukraine war. At this rate, UK will break up.

 

[hembo]

Looks like Sunak will have his baptism by fire after all. Exceptionally bad timing, unless he has some miracle up his sleeves... @waz @Turingsage @mangochutney @khansaheeb @FOOLS_NIGHTMARE @313ghazi

https://twitter.com/x/status/1584400686300614657

Why I’m backing Rishi Sunak for prime minister​

We have a leader once again willing to make the choices necessary for our long-term prosperity
JEREMY HUNT

 

[hembo]

Not that I care about who is going to be UK's next PM, however, it will give me a sense of satisfaction to have a south asian origin PM as some kind of revenge for our colonization. Even Sajid Mia will do too.

 

[FuturePAF]

Unfortunately for a man who has everything, the siren song of power is hard to resist.


Boris is an inveterate liar fired from SIX DIFFERENT JOBS FOR LYING. He could muster ONLY 54 MP's to back him to Sunak's 150.
He was STILL PEDLING LIES by claiming support of 102. He went into talks with Sunak and Penny and offered them any jobs they wanted, they BOTH told him to take a running jump.

Bojo cannot help himself from telling one lie after another. 50 MINISTERS resigned from his govt because this story telling PM was someone they could not work with.

Bojo is a entertainer , not a politician.

Do you think he will campaign front he right and shift to governing from the middle?, more pragmatic then ideological. He is faced with similar economic difficulties as Obama was during the 2008 recession.

Agreed, Bojo is an entertainer; a wanna be Trump, more so because Britain isn’t as globally influential as it once was.

For the sake of the British people, I hope Sunak does a decent enough job to get the UK through this hard winter up ahead.

 

[Turingsage]

For the sake of the British people, I hope Sunak does a decent enough job to get the UK through this hard winter up ahead.

Very few people comprehend the deep doodoo Britain's economy is in. The populace in general keep saying why wont they spend on the NHS or social care and why wont they reduce energy and food prices without understanding that the era of cheap money and quotative easing is over and the bill, rampant inflation, has arrived.
This inflation cannot be wished away and the primary weapon to fight inflation is raising base rates by Central Banks.
No one who has lived through an era of inflation appreciates how corrosive it is and how difficult it is to tackle without leading to a recession.
The British economy CANNOT escape a recession, its only a question of how deep and for how long, Meanwhile interest rates will have to be ratcheted up. It takes six months for the first effects of that rise to first show up in the macro economy.

The battle is going to be long and brutal and Sunak will eventually be sacrificed. If he survives it will be a economic victory but a monumental political defeat

 

[AgnosticIndian]

I have very little respect for this man, just because I have very little respect for politicians—they generally have no values of their own and only pander to the crowd. But it's a intresting chapter, let's see what happens.

 

[epebble]

Very few people comprehend the deep doodoo Britain's economy is in. The populace in general keep saying why wont they spend on the NHS or social care and why wont they reduce energy and food prices without understanding that the era of cheap money and quotative easing is over and the bill, rampant inflation, has arrived.
This inflation cannot be wished away and the primary weapon to fight inflation is raising base rates by Central Banks.
No one who has lived through an era of inflation appreciates how corrosive it is and how difficult it is to tackle without leading to a recession.
The British economy CANNOT escape a recession, its only a question of how deep and for how long, Meanwhile interest rates will have to be ratcheted up. It takes six months for the first effects of that rise to first show up in the macro economy.

The battle is going to be long and brutal and Sunak will eventually be sacrificed. If he survives it will be a economic victory but a monumental political defeat

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Black Man Given Nation's Worst Job​ 11/04/08 11:30PM WASHINGTON—African-American man Barack Obama, 47, was given the least-desirable job in the entire country Tuesday when he was elected president of the United States of America. In his new high-stress, low-reward position, Obama will be charged with such tasks as completely overhauling the nation's broken-down economy, repairing the crumbling infrastructure, and generally having to please more than 300 million Americans and cater to their every whim on a daily basis. As part of his duties, the black man will have to spend four to eight years cleaning up the messes other people left behind. The job comes with such intense scrutiny and so certain a guarantee of failure that only one other person even bothered applying for it. Said scholar and activist Mark L. Denton, "It just goes to show you that, in this country, a black man still can't catch a break."