UK Liz Truss - Shortest serving UK PM in history

[SBD Gonzalez]

Have Liz Truss’s 44 days in office destroyed 40 years of free market philosophy?

Economists soon saw through Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s plans for billions of unfunded tax cuts to benefit the rich

www.theguardian.com

 

[Crankyhawk]

If they’d just have the common sense to make voting compulsory, a lot of their problems would go away.

That and have independent non partisan electoral commissions

 

[QuietB]

unfortunately the USA appears so broken (partisan distrust, alternative histories and irreconcilable beliefs) that it looks like they will go back to the republicans

Wrong thread for it - but my take is Biden will get shifted out of the way, replaced by a young and energetic alternative, and the USA will have a stark choice at the next election.

Everyone in the western world is ready to stick it to the boomers and mess that have made and Trump is a boomer.

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

If they’d just have the common sense to make voting compulsory, a lot of their problems would go away.

Australia hasn't exactly been a model of political stability either. On the surface intraparty factional infighting isn't really the electorate's fault to be fair, but 'somebody' votes for anyone who holds a seat in our system, so that 'somebody' put all these factional bozos where they are in the first place!

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

Wrong thread for it - but my take is Biden will get shifted out of the way, replaced by a young and energetic alternative, and the USA will have a stark choice at the next election.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is still too young for the job (she's 33) and Bernie Sanders is too old (he's 81). Is there anyone on the Democratic Left in that nation who is in the middle of those two who might run?

 

[Gough]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is still too young for the job (she's 33) and Bernie Sanders is too old (he's 81). Is there anyone on the Democratic Left in that nation who is in the middle of those two who might run?

Gen X has been a blow out politically, I put it down to the fact that we probably killed more brain cells collectively in the 80s and 90s than any generation that's ever existed before or since.

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

Gen X has been a blow out politically, I put it down to the fact that we probably killed more brain cells collectively in the 80s and 90s than any generation that's ever existed before or since.

Yeah. You might be right. I know I'm not as widely read as I could be these days about politics but there's not a lot of Xers in the political sphere to actually get excited about are there?

Maybe there's a lot of action at the grassroots level, but how many are growing upward and onward?

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

Australia hasn't exactly been a model of political stability either. On the surface intraparty factional infighting isn't really the electorate's fault to be fair, but 'somebody' votes for anyone who holds a seat in our system, so that 'somebody' put all these factional bozos where they are in the first place!

But we have improved that recently, with first Labor and then the Coalition introducing tough new leadership challenge rules. Don't think we'll be seeing too many frivolous challenges from now on. For better or for worse, Albanese's and Dutton's positions are pretty secure.

 

[Gough]

Yeah. You might be right. I know I'm not as widely read as I could be these days about politics but there's not a lot of Xers in the political sphere to actually get excited about are there?

Maybe there's a lot of action at the grassroots level, but how many are growing upward and onward?

I think we're mostly just the middle kids in the ruck between boomers and millennials.

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

Mordaunt campaign source claims she has 90 endorsements - despite only around 30 backing her publicly
The Penny Mordaunt campaign is claiming that she now has endorsements from 90 Tory MPs. A campaign source told journalists:

Both Johnson amd Mordaunt have clearly been lying about how many numbers they had/have.
They are dodgy as.

 

[Stokey]

Sunak uncontested. Mordaunt withraws at literally the last minute.

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

I think we're mostly just the middle kids in the ruck between boomers and millennials.

Did the post-Vietnam era create an apathetic vacuum in the scene? I would have thought it would have galvanised political stances, but then again post-Iraq/post-Afghanistan haven't really 'shook things up' in the scene either. It just reinforced that 'meet the new boss, same as the old boss' stuff that The Who sang about.

Grassroots activism was buzzing at the time, yeah sure. But nothing growing up from that fertile soil that I could see. Maybe economic pressures and another depression might throw some skittles around.

 

[NSWCROW]

 

[Stokey]

Lol. Not like he put his hand out and was rebuffed. I don't like Hancock but that's a pretty petty tweet.

 

[Gough]

Last time a person of colour took charge of a traditionally Anglo country the backlash gave us Trumpism.

 

[Stokey]

Last time a person of colour took charge of a traditionally Anglo country the backlash gave us Trumpism.

I was wondering how this would be spun into a negative.

Good job.

 

[Gough]

I was wondering how this would be spun into a negative.

Good job.

You see the emergence of Trump as a negative? We're finally getting on the same page.

 

[Satan]

I was wondering how this would be spun into a negative.

Good job.

Are we sure Rishi was born the UK?

 

[Crankyhawk]

Prediction- rishi will aim to be a save the furniture type pm, his speech indicated his priority was to unify the Party before the country, so by being steady and unspectacular will aim to keep Tory losses to a lower level (and avoid the current spectre of total party wipeout)

 

[QuietB]

Last time a person of colour took charge of a traditionally Anglo country the backlash gave us Trumpism.

Correct.

Brexit doing its job perfectly of keeping the brown people out.

This is going to be entertaining at least.

 

[Gough]

Correct.

Brexit doing its job perfectly of keeping the brown people out.

This is going to be entertaining at least.

First order of business for Sunak should be to visit Brussels, drop to his knees and beg the EU for Britain's readmission.

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

You see the emergence of Trump as a negative? We're finally getting on the same page.

Touché!!

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

First order of business for Sunak should be to visit Brussels, drop to his knees and beg the EU for Britain's readmission.

A perspective on that here:

It’s the beginning of the Sunak era – and the end of Britain’s Brexitist delusions | Brexit | The Guardian

As a realist, the new prime minister will see the need to steer a new course, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash

amp.theguardian.com

 

[NSWCROW]

Lol. Not like he put his hand out and was rebuffed. I don't like Hancock but that's a pretty petty tweet.

No whiskas for Larry tonight

 

[Mofra]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is still too young for the job (she's 33) and Bernie Sanders is too old (he's 81). Is there anyone on the Democratic Left in that nation who is in the middle of those two who might run?

Ru Paul's cousin.

I mean, Cory Brooker (who was seen as a rising star a few years ago). He is actually Ru Paul's cousin too.