Liz Truss: ‘The Blob’ caused economy to stagnate, not me

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/liz-truss-the-blob-caused-economy-to-stagnate-not-me-x8ph8g095

by No_Flounder_1155

31 comments

  1. She uses so many Americanisms she makes my teeth itch. She should move there permanently and stick to guest appearances on batshit podcasts

  2. Can we all just agree to stop giving people like Truss column inches and air time. The absolute cheek of the woman to even dare to try and blame anything/anyone over the sheer disaster of her premiership than herself and Kwarteng is baffling.

    The economy didn’t “stagnate”. For everything said about Starmer Labour at least we’re fucking stagnating. It completely fucking crashed. As a direct result of her disastrous reign my mortgage doubled and won’t ever recover.

    Imo she did FAR more damage to the Conservative Party’s chances of re-election than Johnson and Sunak did.

    If you fuck people over that hard in that short space a time, you deserve to get fucked back.

    The Tories and anyone in the right/centre-right would do well to distance themselves from the sheer bullshit that comes out of her mouth.

  3. What she did to the economy wasn’t remotely stagnation.

  4. You can take the scum out of the tories, but you can’t take the tory out of the scum.

  5. She fucked our country up because she was on the blob? I don’t believe it

  6. It wasn’t me! It was the blob, I tell you! The BLOOOOOBBBBBBBB!

  7. Just when I was beginning to forget that this political wackjob existed…..

  8. Alright everybody, place your bets on who or what Liz Truss is going to blame for the economy crash next time she opens her mouth.

    Personally, my money’s on either imported Spanish fruit and veg, or trans people.

  9. Unpopular opinion, but her intentions and overarching objectives were pretty good. The biggest issue was that she wanted to do it in one budget and not three… 
     

  10. Hmm I see Liz that’s very concerning, and is this “The Blob” in the room with us right now?

  11. I am so sorry she suffers from self esteem issues and calls herself the Blob…Lady Lettuce was just fine

  12. As an American who is just old enough to recall the great Reagan recession, and now lives in Britain, let me please remind you all that “supply side economics” was tried in various permutations for about 20 years in the US to no avail.

    It doesn’t work, not in the short term, not in the medium term & certainly not in the long term.

    And Truss surely knows this. I have no idea what she thought she was doing.

  13. Liz Truss on the Blob was not a thought I needed at breakfast.

  14. Stagnated? She crashed the entire economy! Where’s the editorial responsibility in publishing these brazen lies?

  15. Private Eye did a great summary of her book as part of their year end review. Definitely worth listening to and scarily not far off her actual take…

  16. Maybe that’s true, but she’s been in politics for a while and she should have grasped the basics that delivery is almost as important as the message. Her interview on triggernometry showed she hadn’t got a clue.

  17. I always thought she was a bleedin’ cunt.

    I’ll see myself out!

  19. She’s kind of right, she caused the economy to collapse instead.

  20. From the article: “I think the Blob describes (something) wider than just the government,”

    Ah, there’s the problem, it’s the words “I think” coming from Liz Truss.

    No love, you don’t think. Trust us on this, we’ve seen what happens when you *try* to think.

  21. I’m reading a book about her now. I think she is/was clinically insane. So many complete fuck ups made a bit of a shit predicament a fucking disaster. She’s obsessed with “the blob” and the deep state and what not.

    However, her intent I.e to try to give the economy a boost and promote significant growth in the UK was a good one. But her execution was probably the worst sequence of events in living memory politically/economically.

    She shouldn’t feel empowered to be speaking publicly with any authority about this stuff. She arrogantly and properly fucked it. Without any of the checks and balances we put in place (all of this is what she means when she says “the blob”) to prevent a disaster in the markets.

    The mad thing is is that all she needed to do was set out how it was going to be paid for. She flat refused to even have that conversation. Now, we all know that it basically wasn’t possible, but bearing in mind she knew that was all the markets needed it was pretty mad.

    What Labour have done recently is on the low end of the scale of the same madness in a sense, but if our public services didn’t get improvements soon, they never will and they would collapse. Someone had to do the difficult thing in a difficult situation. But if we have another round of spending funded by taxes with no initiatives for growth, they will face a similar fate.

  22. Please stop.
    We have a pretty clear pattern that giving these traitors time on our feeds only spreads their message and makes them more powerful.

    If you rightfully hate the Conservatives for gutting the country like a fish then do your part, promote the many good things labour and the other parties are doing but most importantly, IGNORE THE CONSERVATIVES!

  23. What did the films that were released in 1958 and 1988, and the games in 2008 and 2011 do to you?

  24. Detached, daft and weird. A disaster of a person. The worst of the tories.

  25. Thanks to Rachel from complaints/accounts the 10 year Gilt yields are now higher than when the BOE’s antics saw Truss resign and a media frenzy.

    That same media and the BOE have gone awfully quiet……hmm most strange 🤔

  26. Beware of The Blob, it creeps

    And leaps and glides and slides
    Across the floor

    Right through the door

    And all around the wall

    A splotch, a blotch

    Be careful of The Blob

  27. Lies. These charlatans never take responsibility, and this is the reason that they are not fit to hold high office.

  28. If you polled the British public on “the blob” what percentage do you think would know what it means?

    Outside the Westminster bubble this phrase is literally meaningless

    And exactly why the Tory rights attempts to try to land things the American right or reform can just isn’t working

  29. The warning signs for truss were there for ages. The fact she was elected by almost nobody and able to do this shows why our democracy is outdated and wrong. With every speech she shows she’s inept. This week I saw unfunded tax rises mentioned…which shows she was making decisions on stuff she didn’t understand

  30. All are the same…

    Why she enjoying benefits of the PM if she chairs she didn’t do anything?

    They won’t take that seat because if she loses hers there would be others in line entitled to the same treatment.

  31. Her party rejected her.

    Her constituency rejected her.

    The country rejected her party.

    Why can’t she just fuck off already?

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