UK General Discussion: Rishecession

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Made no sense too as she had nothing to say on education or social mobility!

"Leveling up is important. Our markets are full of pork. You cannot have freedom without kleptocracy. Our future lies ahead."

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How is Truss acting more ideologically, and less responsibly than Rees-Mogg? Refusing to approve a simple, comparatively cheap campaign to educate the public about saving energy, in the midst of a cost of living crisis, with looming gas shortages, just feels like ethical and political malpractice.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Steven_Swinford/status/1578135758040403971

...what is she ideologically opposed to, PSAs?

The way it’s being described, Truss has engaged fully with the GOP-style “It’s not the governments job to tell you what to do” talking point, and is refusing to fund the campaign on that basis. The government source quoted in most articles about it explicitly say she thinks the campaign is too “interventionist”.

Johnson was said to have similar laissez faire instincts (there were apparently some fierce discussions about whether to lock-down over COVID, especially the first time), but could be won over if the argument was made well enough.

I see.

Perhaps Truss is just committing to the bit. This could be her big break in the improv comedy world.

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https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1578480177499119616?s=20&t=vF8DUm5p8jv6...

Foreign florists? I see the Tory government is finally standing up to the true villains of this world - the Dutch!

I knew I couldn't trust the Dutch! They like tulips too much for their own good!

No one who calls whipped cream "slagroom" with a straight face is welcome in my house.

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https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1578480177499119616?s=20&t=vF8DUm5p8jv6...

Foreign florists? I see the Tory government is finally standing up to the true villains of this world - the Dutch!

I knew I couldn't trust the Dutch! They like tulips too much for their own good!

No one who calls whipped cream "slagroom" with a straight face is welcome in my house.

That word sounds like it comes out of a leaked dossier on the next Tory sex scandal. Secret slagroom at party conference?

I hear the secret strip club in the basement of CCHQ is called "The Profumo Slagroom"

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You couldn’t make it up.
https://mobile.twitter.com/HarryYorke1/status/1578796938761076742

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The Times (Shipman) reporting that Graham Brady isn't inclined to allow a 1922 rule change permitting a VoNC in Truss' first 12 months unless the rebels number half of the parliamentary party, a figure currently equating to 178 MPs.

In an astonishing attack on Gove’s character, a friend of Truss added: “Michael is troubled and has never found his place in the sun. There is something deeply troubling about the darkness inside him. It grips him and it takes over.
“It corrupts his soul. The more he plots, the more baggage he collects and the more conflicted he then becomes about who and what he is. His answer to everything is more tax, more salami slicing, more failed economics. The Tory party has rejected him.”

actually cackled

the shadow over innsmouth aberdeenshire

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https://twitter.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1580227603645878272

Tories hold Norwich North? Dave Rowntree just can't catch a break. Should've played in a better band and stayed out of the Cool Britannia astroturf circlejerk that everyone's soured on since imo tbh

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On a lighter note, a former Deputy Prime Minister has been accused of taking bribes from OnlyFans.

I've had some embarrassing MPs, haven't I?

We may have reached the point where Sheffield Hallam has to be considered in the same bracket as Rochdale, Peterborough, Leicester East and the entire county of Shropshire.

jared o'mara's 2017 victory speech:

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https://twitter.com/sofeeeee/status/1580881543819456514

Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

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The butterfly effect from eating a bacon sandwich was really something wasn't it.

with this character's death, the thread of prophecy is severed

https://twitter.com/sofeeeee/status/1580881543819456514

Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

OTL Liz Truss as the pure-potential-in-the-Thomistic-sense bad-at-everything worst version of herself? I can dig it.

the pound collapsed because kwarteng sent it to the sausage finger dimension

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Lizmeralda sacrificed Kwasimodo in The Hunch Beast with Two Back(s) of Whitehall. C(o)unt Frollo as the new chancellor.

but did kwasimodo predict all this? the bank of england, the end of the world?

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Good morning everyone. Let's go out on a limb:

Liz Truss is Igos du Ikana, in this essay I will

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I am just dying to hear Vosem's take on all this.

Real clumsy women representation has never been tried.

It will when you're rightly crowned Empress Jadwiga II of the Post-Pan-European Hauntology Fever Dream, babe. 😘

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Summer 2022 leadership election: 60 days
Eventual winner's tenure as leader: 50 days

Autumn 2022 leadership election: 4 days
Eventual winner's tenure as leader:   7 hours?

When this trend continues to the point of multiple PMs and leadership elections being superimposed upon the same instant, will Number 10 become a wormhole?

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https://twitter.com/PickardJE/status/1584273884920287233?s=20&t=b1ybUMO4ZibT...

Kevin Rudd rn:

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Just a girlboss living her best life https://twitter.com/DominicPenna/status/1584202221646118912

Is she trying to court Heston Blumenthal with hopes of starting some absolutely deranged High Tory Bake-Off spinoff together? Weak effort if so.

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https://twitter.com/johnestevens/status/1584563803957534720?s=20&t=gqfkzBOxI...

first as tragedy (please clap) then as farce