[Newsbot]

Title: British Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns
Category: Political
Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2022-10-20 05:47:24

[DrCaleb]

The head of lettuce won.

[xerxes]

What a shit show. Shortest tenure as PM in history leaving only destruction in her wake.

Wonder which out of touch, elite prep school snob the Tories will choose this time?

[Tricks]

any one else find it odd that they're putting new party leaders/PMs in without an election? I feel like if Trudeau stepped down and the Liberals just put in a new leader, we'd be furious about it.

[xerxes]

We would be. And the Tories know it too. If there was an election now, they would get ravaged at the polls. Which is why they’re going to play this game until 2024 and hope the voters forget and blame all of England’s problems on Labour.

[bootlegga]

Tricks Tricks:

any one else find it odd that they're putting new party leaders/PMs in without an election? I feel like if Trudeau stepped down and the Liberals just put in a new leader, we'd be furious about it.

That's exactly what just happened in Alberta - 42,000 or so nutjobs picked Danielle Smith as the new Premier - that's about 0.1% of Alberta voters. The same thing happened in 2014 when Jim Prentice became Premier here too, but he only got 25,000 or so votes. While it sucks, it is unfortunately the way things work in a Westminster parliamentary system.

If it happened to Trudeau, they could select Freeland as the new party leader and carry on governing, as long as the NDP continued to support them in the House. Only if the Liberals failed a non-confidence vote, then they would have to call an election.

[raydan]

[raydan]

[xerxes]

Good god. Now there’s serious talk of getting Boris back as PM. It’s like the Tories want to lose every seat in parliament come next election.

[herbie]

I nominate her for the 2022 CTC Award (Joe Clark/John Turner/Kim Campbell)

[Scape]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQFBYrg ... WL&index=3

[Thanos]

Kind of odd to see tax cuts take out a conservative politician given that tax cuts are the bread-and-butter of pretty much every single right-of-centre party platform on the planet. Then again if the Brit Tories figured out a way to make the new tax cuts even more damaging to the working and middle class than Margaret Thatcher's poll tax debacle (the one that effectively ended her time as PM) then they got what they deserved. Maybe in the US tax cuts for the ultra wealthy and tax hikes for everyone else are a winning policy but apparently it doesn't work worth shit in the rest of the democratic countries.

[DrCaleb]

Her cuts were only for the wealthy, meanwhile the middle class can't afford electricity.

Brits see through the 'trickle down'

[xerxes]

Thanos Thanos:

Kind of odd to see tax cuts take out a conservative politician given that tax cuts are the bread-and-butter of pretty much every single right-of-centre party platform on the planet. Then again if the Brit Tories figured out a way to make the new tax cuts even more damaging to the working and middle class than Margaret Thatcher's poll tax debacle (the one that effectively ended her time as PM) then they got what they deserved. Maybe in the US tax cuts for the ultra wealthy and tax hikes for everyone else are a winning policy but apparently it doesn't work worth shit in the rest of the democratic countries.

The problem was the tax cuts were so obviously in favour of the richest of the rich. I think it would have worked out to thousands of pounds over a certain income, and literal shillings for the regular people. Then throw the economic chaos their 'mini budget' set off, crashing the value of the pound to it's lowest level in deacdes, and nearly wiping out people's pensions in the process. So yeah she had to go.

Sadly, the British people won't get a chance to vote those bums out till 2024, the Tories are going to hope like hell that the people forget just how shitty they are, and also hope that all the Murdoch owned rags, shit over Labour hard enough to sway the election in their favour again.

[Scape]

A non-confidence vote could bring the whole thing down much sooner and considering the volume of the infighting I would be surprised if whoever takes up the mantel after Truss can last 6 months.