If that is the case the King should dissolve parliament and call a GE.
John Major had luck (and The Sun) on his side back then as he had just won a General Election giving him 5 years of government.
Liz Truss on the other hand has no mandate from the voters and has just over 2 years to go before the next General Election, assuming she doesn’t get sacked before then.
Kwasi Kwateng has zero mandate to be Chancellor – who had even heard of him at the last General Election, let alone wanted him to be Chancellor?
Labour (and indeed other parties) should genuinely be calling for a general election in every PMQs at this point.
This government aren’t even representative of the alt-righters and people Johnson and the media swindled in 2019 anymore. Let alone the rest of us…
She just shrugs it off in a Johnson-esque way, “I’m prepared to be unpopular.”
This only works to a point. Unless Argentina decide to have another go at the Falklands she’s not likely to last as long as her hero.
All parties should be looking at the response to the energy crisis… You might think it would be government programs to stimulate growth in renewables like solar or wind, programs to stimulate insulation of existing buildings- instead they want to ban new solar farms, continue the effective ban on inshore wind.
Oh and give billions to the mostly foreign state owned energy companies and start fracking again.
It’s not very conservative to rip up the countryside and have earthquakes and send billions of unfunded government money to French and German state.
Describing the collection of fuckwits selected by Truss as a Government, must be pretty close to a false declaration under the trades description act.
This will make for an interesting sit com in a few yrs. The adventures of a thoroughly disliked and misguided former PM as she is forced to hide at home with mum and dad and has to wear disguises to leave the house.
We will continue to be ruled by WEF representatives one after another until something changes. With the population’s worrying receptiveness to injustice, things are sadly unlikely to change.
Truss is literally working with nothing.
It is rare to see someone so badly equipped for life, never mind for the highest political office in the land.
She has never had an interesting or innovative idea enter her head. She has no functioning analytical ability. She’s like Homer Simpson but without the love-ability or charm.
She has zero principles or position… she’s like one of those floppy armed inflatables outside a dodgy second hand car sales.
She probably only heard about #TrickleDownEconomics last week and is already convinced that it’s golden.
But compared to Krazy Kwasi Kwartzeng she is like Einstein.
as heartless as the tin man and as brainless as the scarecrow.
I hate to say it but we could see an election or vote of no confidence within a year at this rate. We have had two monarchs in seventy years but we could easily have five PMs in seven years at this rate. The theory that Truss is just a placeholder PM to show how much better it was under Johnson looks less and less farfetched.
Realistically how long can this Truss farce continue?
I don’t know…but are citizens just not happy with anyone?
I’m from Canada btw
Truss is over. I bet she’s already thinking about what podcast she can start, once she’s gone
Can’t imagine we’ll be reappraising Liz Truss in 25 years’ time. Unless the next few prime ministers are unimaginably bad. Ok I can imagine it
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[Non-paywall link](https://archive.ph/20220926153221/https://sotn.newstatesman.com/2022/09/liz-truss-government-unpopular)
If that is the case the King should dissolve parliament and call a GE.
John Major had luck (and The Sun) on his side back then as he had just won a General Election giving him 5 years of government.
Liz Truss on the other hand has no mandate from the voters and has just over 2 years to go before the next General Election, assuming she doesn’t get sacked before then.
Kwasi Kwateng has zero mandate to be Chancellor – who had even heard of him at the last General Election, let alone wanted him to be Chancellor?
Labour (and indeed other parties) should genuinely be calling for a general election in every PMQs at this point.
This government aren’t even representative of the alt-righters and people Johnson and the media swindled in 2019 anymore. Let alone the rest of us…
She just shrugs it off in a Johnson-esque way, “I’m prepared to be unpopular.”
This only works to a point. Unless Argentina decide to have another go at the Falklands she’s not likely to last as long as her hero.
All parties should be looking at the response to the energy crisis… You might think it would be government programs to stimulate growth in renewables like solar or wind, programs to stimulate insulation of existing buildings- instead they want to ban new solar farms, continue the effective ban on inshore wind.
Oh and give billions to the mostly foreign state owned energy companies and start fracking again.
It’s not very conservative to rip up the countryside and have earthquakes and send billions of unfunded government money to French and German state.
Describing the collection of fuckwits selected by Truss as a Government, must be pretty close to a false declaration under the trades description act.
This will make for an interesting sit com in a few yrs. The adventures of a thoroughly disliked and misguided former PM as she is forced to hide at home with mum and dad and has to wear disguises to leave the house.
We will continue to be ruled by WEF representatives one after another until something changes. With the population’s worrying receptiveness to injustice, things are sadly unlikely to change.
Truss is literally working with nothing.
It is rare to see someone so badly equipped for life, never mind for the highest political office in the land.
She has never had an interesting or innovative idea enter her head. She has no functioning analytical ability. She’s like Homer Simpson but without the love-ability or charm.
She has zero principles or position… she’s like one of those floppy armed inflatables outside a dodgy second hand car sales.
She probably only heard about #TrickleDownEconomics last week and is already convinced that it’s golden.
But compared to Krazy Kwasi Kwartzeng she is like Einstein.
as heartless as the tin man and as brainless as the scarecrow.
I hate to say it but we could see an election or vote of no confidence within a year at this rate. We have had two monarchs in seventy years but we could easily have five PMs in seven years at this rate. The theory that Truss is just a placeholder PM to show how much better it was under Johnson looks less and less farfetched.
Realistically how long can this Truss farce continue?
I don’t know…but are citizens just not happy with anyone?
I’m from Canada btw
Truss is over. I bet she’s already thinking about what podcast she can start, once she’s gone
Can’t imagine we’ll be reappraising Liz Truss in 25 years’ time. Unless the next few prime ministers are unimaginably bad. Ok I can imagine it