UK PM race

[TheOriginalHappyGoat]

The Tories are down to their final five. There will be debates this weekend, and then a series of votes next week to narrow it to the final two. The final two will then be submitted to the party membership at large to pick the new leader. Once a new Conservative leader is in place, BoJo will visit the Queen, and as his last act as PM, recommend to her that she replace him with the new leader, which she will do.

Looks like it's almost certainly going to end up being Rishi Sunak vs A Blonde Woman, and that Blonde Woman will either be on his right (Liz Truss) or on his left (Penny Mordaunt)*. Despite Sunak coming the closest to locking up a spot in the final two, it's actually Mordaunt who is the favorite among bettors.

Tory leadership race: who’s still standing, what are they promising and who’s backing them?

And then there were two: members to decide between Truss and Sunak as Penny Mordaunt eliminated

www.theguardian.com

* This is all relative. It's unlikely that any of these people would be considered far right wing in America. The right-most candidate, Kemi Badenoch, is a black woman who supports low taxes, is skeptical of going too green too fast, but still has some environmentalist bona fides, and thinks that woke culture has gone maybe just a bit too far. Basically, the far right in this race is what we in this country would call a RINO.

 

[UncleMark]

Mordaunt could be a babe.

 

[larsIU]

Mordaunt could be a babe.

Wheelhouse

 

[Joe_Hoopsier]

Yep, Right after this.

 

[kurt cloverdales]

Goat do you prefer their system to ours? I really don't understand it but wasn't Teresa May forced out like Boris before her term ended? I would have paid a tremendous sum of money to have watched trump go before the house like the Brits do to when they debate the prime minister.

 

[TheOriginalHappyGoat]

Looks like Liz Truss is planning on burning it all down.

Truss vows to scrap remaining EU laws by end of 2023 risking ‘bonfire of rights’

Scale and complexity of task would be difficult in context of civil service cuts, say experts

www.theguardian.com

 

[Morrison]

Looks like Liz Truss is planning on burning it all down.

Truss vows to scrap remaining EU laws by end of 2023 risking ‘bonfire of rights’

Scale and complexity of task would be difficult in context of civil service cuts, say experts

www.theguardian.com

Liz Truss becomes new UK Prime Minister as Boris Johnson bids farewell: Live updates

Liz Truss is officially Britain's new prime minister after she met with Queen Elizabeth II today. She will have to immediately face the country's looming economic and humanitarian crises. Follow live updates here.

www.cnn.com

Sounds like she’s a supply side tax cutter. Is this what GB needs with their economic crises?

 

[larsIU]

Liz Truss becomes new UK Prime Minister as Boris Johnson bids farewell: Live updates

Liz Truss is officially Britain's new prime minister after she met with Queen Elizabeth II today. She will have to immediately face the country's looming economic and humanitarian crises. Follow live updates here.

www.cnn.com

Sounds like she’s a supply side tax cutter. Is this what GB needs with their economic crises?

Wait til it gets cold. From what I've heard heating costs could rise by 80%.

 

[UncleMark]

Wait til it gets cold. From what I've heard heating costs could rise by 80%.

NPR was talking today about energy costs tripling in GB this year.

 

[TheOriginalHappyGoat]

Wait til it gets cold. From what I've heard heating costs could rise by 80%.

Liz gonna cap energy bills. The socialist.

 

[larsIU]

Liz gonna cap energy bills. The socialist.

And cut taxes? Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

 

[larsIU]

NPR was talking today about energy costs tripling in GB this year.

I wonder if they get gas from Russia (like Germany)

 

[UncleMark]

I wonder if they get gas from Russia (like Germany)

No idea. They were talking about energy for heating. I thought they had lots of oil offshore to the north, which would make me think there's gas there too.

 

[snarlcakes]

No idea. They were talking about energy for heating. I thought they had lots of oil offshore to the north, which would make me think there's gas there too.

They’re screwed in the short term and it’s going to be a scary 6-9 months in GB and Europe. I watched a short interview today where the guy claimed GB had enough reserves off shore and could be in good shape by 2024 if they committed to it. Good luck with convincing the climate zealots in GB to doing it.

 

[snarlcakes]

Liz gonna cap energy bills. The socialist.

Good luck with that. I’ll translate. GB is about to start printing some money.

 

[Joe_Hoopsier]

They’re screwed in the short term and it’s going to be a scary 6-9 months in GB and Europe. I watched a short interview today where the guy claimed GB had enough reserves off shore and could be in good shape by 2024 if they committed to it. Good luck with convincing the climate zealots in GB to doing it.

Didn't they outlaw heat emitting devices by Dec 2022?
Not a lot of time to knit sweaters!!

 

[snarlcakes]

Didn't they outlaw heat emitting devices by Dec 2022?
Not a lot of time to knit sweaters!!

I wouldn’t doubt it. The entire continent is ran by sycophants and chuffers.

 

[TheOriginalHappyGoat]

Only loyalists: New PM guts the government of almost all of BoJo's allies, and anyone who supported Sunak.

Liz Truss culls cabinet on first day as loyalists and allies get top jobs

New PM also pledges to urgently tackle energy crisis with plans to freeze bills at about £2,500 a year expected within days

www.theguardian.com

 

[sglowrider]

Shortest honeymoon period for any PM. She sees the Queen on a Tuesday, she dies on Thursday and its been downhill ever since.

This is an article of her efforts to defend the dumbest (mini) budget proposal ever. She went around the country's regional BBC radio talkshow this morning. The questions are brutal -- don't ever question the independence of the gov't funded BBC!!

BBC Radio Bristol presenter James Hanson took no prisoners, opening with the line: “It's hard to know what is falling more since you entered Downing Street, the value of the pound or the Tory poll rating”.

And he told her: "I mean your Chancellor, on Friday, opened up the stable door and spooked the horses so much you could almost see the economy being dragged behind them!"

Ms Truss said she had “taken action to reduce our tax burden” to boost growth.

But he cut in: “With respect, that is the same scripted answer you’ve given to every BBC local radio station this morning!”

BBC Radio Kent presenter Anna Cookson told the PM listeners had asked “what on earth were you thinking”, “how on earth can we ever trust the Conservatives again”, and “are you ashamed of what you’ve done?".

And some of the comments by pundits have been so funny and sad at the same time:

TV historian Dan Snow: “That was the worst provincial campaign of any of our leaders since autumn 1216 when King John, marching about dealing with a rebellion & two invasions, caught dysentery in Norfolk, lost the Crown Jewels in The Wash and died in Nottinghamshire.”

9 car crash moments in Liz Truss's local radio grilling branded 'worst outing since 1216'​

If Liz Truss thought her hour-long marathon of mini Budget local radio interviews would be a breeze, she was wrong - as listeners asked her "are you ashamed of what you've done?"