The only reason my economic plan failed is because the financial markets are full of communists, by Liz Truss

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  1. Excerpt:

    >My 2012 opus ‘Britannia Unchained’ laid the foundations for the mini-budget delivered by my new regime, so I fail to see how anyone could have been surprised by the contents.

    >I felt that an unprecedented cost of living crisis was the perfect time to introduce a budget that gave a totally unfunded tax cut to higher rate income tax payers, forced 120,000 people on benefits to try harder to get work or face sanctions, and scrapped a number of measures designed to bring in a little bit more tax from people who could afford it.

    *Newsthump*, 5 Jan. 2023.

  2. Credit to her for trying to improve the national outlook, but perhaps next we could try a cheaper, funnier stand-up act?

  3. One of the few times that the newsarse article isn’t as ridiculous as the one it’s trying to parody.

  4. If this was the case why did the BofE have to intervene as quickly and extensively as it did? Apparently we were only a few hours from an avalanche of calls on pension funds.

    I’ve always been told that if you move into a new position you take a while to understand the limitations of the current processes and structure before you start making significant changes.

    There’s a difference between “hitting the ground running” and face planting repeatedly whilst screaming “the other kids did it and ran away!” repeatedly and expecting anyone to believe you.

  5. “Your absolutely right Liz” Said her pycho therapist.
    “Oh by the way Liz have you met Napoleon and johnny the carrot?”

    “They are your biggest fans….. Liz”

    Nodding and bumbles about in her mental unit until some one needs to talk to a loon.

    On £150k a year for life….

  6. They think that all the bots and the papers can swing the public mood to any bullshit.

    Truss you hurt the upper middle classes, your own voter base. You’re done, no matter how much a billionaire backs you.

  7. No it failed because the people we’ve had in power for the past decade have pulled the ass out of the country. The government before that lied to the public to join an illegal war.

  8. Lets see Truss re-launched their political career on Sunday and we are now at Tuesday and they are still getting some coverage. I wonder if they can make it to the weekend before they disappear again.

  9. Hold up.

    Please correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t she basically introduce a tax cut for the rich, hikes for the struggling, all during cost of living crisis and she says it all would work out fine if it wasn’t for “commies?”

    Is she soddin insane?

  10. the sunday telegraph headline, and the layout of the front page, was quite incredible.

    the telegraph website comments now resemble a very crudely made bot fed entirely on /pol/

  11. Those famous left-wing bankers, with their 250 000 Pound salary, blackjack, hookers, and a cocaine addiction.

    Just like those lefty lawyers.

  12. Given that she wanted to cut taxes, whilst also *expanding* the size of the state (i.e. help with energy bills, not touching the state pensions triple lock), isn’t she closer to Hugo Chavez-style socialism than any “financial markets” are?

  13. >The only reason my economic plan failed is because the financial markets are full of communists, by Liz Truss

    >My economic plan for this country was a work of genius, and the only reason we are not reaping the rewards today is because the financial markets are run by communists and leftist ideologues.

    >My 2012 opus ‘Britannia Unchained’ laid the foundations for the mini-budget delivered by my new regime, so I fail to see how anyone could have been surprised by the contents. It was all there if any of you had been bothered to look.

    >I felt that an unprecedented cost of living crisis was the perfect time to introduce a budget that gave a totally unfunded tax cut to higher rate income tax payers, forced 120,000 people on benefits to try harder to get work or face sanctions, and scrapped a number of measures designed to bring in a little bit more tax from people who could afford it.

    >The only explanation for the catastrophe that followed is that city workers who trade in bonds and currencies are communists and left-wing ideologues who would rather see this country collapse in on itself rather than have give some real freedom to its people.

    >Scaredy cat risk-averse traders ruined everything, and they did it because of their politics. Not because they saw a disaster unfolding before them in that UK government bonds were no longer worth the paper they were written on and the pound was suddenly a very risky investment indeed, but because they knew their liberal ideals would be made to look like the nonsense they so clearly are if a genuine right-wing government was a success.

    >They had to ruin my plan, and so ruin it they did.

    >In years to come my plan to cut the taxes of the rich and make things harder for the poor during an unprecedented cost of living crisis will be seen as the nation’s biggest missed opportunity.

    >It is an economic philosophy from which I will never waver. I don’t care how many times we try it or how many times it goes disastrously, I will always believe that the next time we try the same thing it will work perfectly.

    >It’s the very definition of positive thinking.

  14. Can this thick cunt just disappear into obscurity forever instead of constantly feeling the need to embarrass herself publicly? It’s beyond me how she hasn’t realised that she’d do a lot better if she just ceased to do anything at all

  15. Captain Pork Markets! The U.K. economic growth has stalled once again, how can we fix it?!

    To the pork jet! It’s time to go to Beijing and open additional pork markets.

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