Liz Truss doubles down on refusal to offer support over rising energy bills

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  1. not surprised. the free market cult which has the foundational belief that “the free market solves all ills” are incapable of admitting that a quality of life approach instead of a free market only approach would work far better for the country as a whole both for the rich and for the poor. Capitalism will still be part of a quality of life system but it won’t be at the centre of the system.

  2. Keep doubling down but it just makes her look even dumber when she is steam rolled into an embarrassing and expensive u turn. You either start lowering vat, hitting windfall taxes and taking huge action now…or wait until November when the snow is falling and folk are marching on Downing Street.

  3. > “At the moment we’ve got the highest taxes in 70 years. That’s why I believe in lower taxes, to get growth going, to encourage businesses to invest, and that way there will be more money in people’s pockets.”

    Not if any money from lower taxes – and more – is going straight out in energy bill hikes.

    But I guess that’s stating the obvious.

  4. In fairness that support goes straight to the energy companies and only escalates the problem for the next bill. She’d need to offer a comprehensive plan of how to deal with them to make it work, but then the *hedge*mony marketeers would probably withdraw their support for her campaign.

    Damned if you do damned if you don’t. It’s just a question of now or later.

    Addendum; downvoters failing to spot that this is basically pointing out that Truss has an inherent weakness in political strategy.

  5. God… if she’s serious, she can’t win. She just can’t. People are going to die.

    Someone needs to stop her.

  6. So the Tories plan to bleed the tax payer dry and offer hand outs to anyone with enough money and influence, because they know theres no chance they will win an election, but then next election cycle they can blame the country being on fire on the Labour government that inherited it, and theyll get back in to bleed us dry again, and the cycle continues

  7. I want to say something but given i got banned from reddit for talking about eggs and blow job johnson what i wanna say about her might get me banned from reddit and the sub.

    I’ll let you paint a picture what you paint ain’t on me

    Cliff+Red+inverted cross=

    Is she really that fucking stupid in fact are her potential voters that fucking stupid give that they are also sweating their nuts off and shes doubling down.

    Well if this don’t cost her the leadership i may have to add Jazz Down to my paint with words..

  8. Is there any chance she’s trying to make herself terrible so the other guy looks like a hero to “the people”

  9. They either understand there will be civil unrest or they don’t.

    They either understand they are provoking people or they don’t.

    Either way there will be civil unrest, that’s guaranteed in my opinion.

  10. She has her finger on the pulse alright. Will be best thing ever for labour if she wins. Just like tories wanting corbyn in!

  11. Liz Truss is a dumb vacuous robot of dim witted tory/Boris ideas

    I genuinely believe if anyone met her they would walk away thinking that person is a fucking moron

  12. Something will have to be done, no point in denying it and giving us some mealy mouthed shit later

  13. +1 for people marching on downing Street in winter.

    But really,
    The tories know they’ve fucked it.
    And they know that we know they’ve fucked it.

    This is the last gasp profiteering.
    The “set myself up on executive boards for my payday” time.

    “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as: “A bunch of mindless jerks who’ll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.”

  14. I honestly believe she’s a plant.. nobody is this out of touch or has advisors saying yeah you’ll win if you do this

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