She genuinely asked whether we'd be laughing if it had been the far right that had done it. Errr no. No we wouldn't. It would have been significantly less funny if it was on fire with several refugees tied to it
Good point there mate.. if fact going against opinion, that month she was PM she made a lot of sense. It was the Bankers and then the press that bullied her out of the job..
It wasn't actually about the idea, it was the incompetent way she tried to action it. She demonstrated a complete misunderstanding of market confidence. You don't start a new job and try to do something utterly radical with the economy with little to no explanation. Kwateng explained their intentions in more detail AFTER the market crashed. Truss and Kwateng may well have had a point in what they were trying to do (I don't agree but a fair number do), but to make such wild changes to economic policy without first laying out a clear strategy to everyone it might effect, was always going to end exactly as it did. Nobody bullied anyone, it simply came down to the PM and Chancellor not understanding how to go about such a radical change and lead to a catastrophe entirely of their own making. It's now apparent that Truss is too erratic for a position of power. Look at this harmless stunt... It was rude sure but to storm off and call it an attack on free speech (which was it was literally the opposite of) is just childish. The same childish attitude she had when she lost her seat last month.. she stormed off in a classlesss huff. This is the person who had our damned nuclear codes.
Liz Truss was the worst prime minister we've had, and crikey that's some achievement given the dreadful ones we've had from 2010 onwards. Her gender is completely irrelevant. Her actions, reactions, comments, opinions, interviews, policies and beliefs all should be viewed as given and judged accordingly.
Not only did they not explain what they were doing, but they refused to let the OBR model the effects of the changes she was proposing - which to the markets demonstrated that they didn't have the courage of their convictions in the actions they were proposing. It was also cheered to the rafters by various Reform MPs and the think tanks that helped to write their manifesto (IEA). Many will have forgotten, but the last radical budget like this was the "Barber Budget" of 1972. Among the direct consequences of this was the government having to beg the IMF for money only 2 years later.
