She'll make a paper aeroplane out of the letter and throw it at "Digital" Dorries.

I, for one, welcome our new ... just kidding :-)

Liz is so crap only 57% of the Tories could bear to vote for her. Quiet Man Ian Duncan-Smith got more. Cameron the pig-shagger got more. Boris "I promoted a sex pest" Johnson got more.

Dear god! The world just keeps getting less rooted in reality.

Liz is so crap only 57% of the Tories could bear to vote for her

It's actually worse than that. Of party members eligible to vote; only 47% voted for her, 35% voted for Rishi, and 17% couldn't be arsed to vote for either.

That's a far bigger turnout than for most elections :-)

Of a group that are sufficiently interested that they joined a political party.

Either they're actually dead or they can't bring themselves to support either of the available options.

No idea which group is larger, of course...

Truss. It'll be like watching Forrest Gump on repeat, 24/7. Just waiting for her to announce that everyone should invest in a shrimp boat, and call it Jen-'nee'.

She'll be finally sorting out the hashtags, now Rudd is nowhere to be seen. /s

At least she'll sort out our cheese imports

You make it from Pork Markets, right?

She did fuck all about our cheese imports when she was last in charge of them. And. That. Is. A. Disgrace.

I doubt she'll do any better now.

"And. That. Is. A. Disgrace."

I KNOOOOOOWWWWW!!!!!

After giving that speech where she showed off her mad cheeze skillz, she turned her hand to DEFRA, and we all know how everything went to shit on the Environment Agency afterwards.

Did we ever find out where the cheese was coming from ?

Cos here in abroad-land the cheese is expensive and bloody awful. I'd kill for even cathedral city.

I'd kill for even cathedral city.

Missing Waitrose, are we :-)

The UK now has more varieties of cheese than France, hardly seems worthwhile importing more.

Missing something .

These Germans[1] just don't understand that cheese should come in 200g crumbly blocks with the name of a bit of the UK on them - not individual slices of extruded cheese product. Sometimes individually wrapped.

I love living in Germany, but I am missing Leicestershire, Wensleydale, Lancashire, Stilton, Caerphilly... 'Cheddar' made in Ireland somehow doesn't cut it.

[1] OK, they're pretty good with sausages and beer. I'll give them that.

How about having a go at making your own?

UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH!

I would like to say this is the last straw, I'm off - but where would I go?

Frankly, most of the world appears to be spiralling down the drain and the so called leaders are only getting worse

[as I type, the headlines below the comment box are the latest IR35 mess up and Mad Nad in her Data Protection mess - add in the Online 'think of the children' debacle and it is obvious that our government is woefully lacking in basic technical intelligence]

Canada and Australia - you can get HP Sauce and Yorkshire Tea easily and the house prices will make you feel nostalgic for home.

New Zealand - is imaginary

USA - as long as you stick to Seattle (or possibly New England?) and never turn on the TV news it's not too bad.

Everywhere else you can't understand a thing they are saying - and they won't let you in anyway

"New Zealand - is imaginary"

Well, they do have Mary Poppins as PM :-)

Finland is also imaginary - and look at their PM !

I'll take imaginary any time - just look at our last and the latest occupant in No.10

I'm off - but where would I go?

Have a word with Elon Musk - he'll be looking for people to colonise Mars

By 50% to 22%, Britons are disappointed rather than pleased that Liz Truss is the new prime minister.

I've just read through reams of guff in the mail and telegraph following her not as triumphant as expected victory : apparently Johnson was brilliant and we must all be grateful for the many fantastic things he did, whilst at the same time Truss must now ditch most of what the previous 3 Tory governments did because it was disastrous and do radically different things instead. And she was in all 3 of those governments.

Apparently Rees Mogg will be minister for business, so maybe he'll advise us all to move to Dublin because that's where he moved his business after the Brexit vote. But then again John Redwood is supposed to be coming back from his crypt into government, so we won't have to experience it all for very long, as we'll have all soon joined the ranks of the undead.

Have they announced who's going to be Secretary of State for Workhouses yet?

At least he "Got Brexit Done" - by exiting Britain with all his funds

Rees Mogg did not move his business to Dublin. His firm set up an investment fund there.

Keep your business registered in the country where your mates set the rules and taxes, put your money in the place where there might be some worthwhile business being done.

The same reason you register your leaking oil tanker in Liberia ?

Which means he's moved at least some of his business to Dublin. So that's all right then.

But why did JRM do that? If Brexit was going to be as wonderful as he claimed, JRM would have had no need to set up a fund based in the EU because that would have made no business sense.

It's even more ironic that he's deliberately embracing "Brussels red tape and regulation" in preference to Littlle England's dumpster fire of the same. Remember he kept claiming breaking free of pesky Brussels bureaucracy would be good for British business. Though it's clearly not been so good for his British business.

It's the height of hypocrisy for JRM to say one thing and do the very opposite. It's even more repellent that he's chosen to trade freely with the EU after taking such a leading role to ensure it would be difficult/impossible for many thousands of UK businesses (like mine) to continue doing that.

I'm slightly puzzled by all these cries of despair. Were you hoping Rishi would win ?

Given the choice, there wasn't going to be a good outcome.

Both options were members of a failing cabinet, and both were members of a party which for a long time believed Boris was their best member.

And the same selection process that produced Boris has produced Truss. Why would it do better this time ?

>Given the choice, there wasn't going to be a good outcome.

Was rather hoping for the more traditional "Gatorade Punchbown" ending to a cult

>the same selection process that produced Boris has produced Truss. Why would it do better this time ?

Given a choice between a woman and brown chappie, neither of whom went to Eton, I hoped that they would all give up.

It was just an "election" so we're several months away from having any idea whether this will be good or bad.

All the engines are on fire and the pilots are currently battering each with axes - but we are 30,000ft away from having any idea whether this will be a good landing or bad

The great thing about Liz is that she'll keep telling whoever is listening exactly what they want to hear.

The first thing she'll do is end that enquiry into whether Boris lied to Parliament, because Conservatives should never have to face any consequences for their actions.

Why would it do better this time?

I wouldn't.

And it didn't.

Poor UK, still spiralling downwards with no solution in sight.

O.

Hadn't even been announced as winner yesterday but she was the "victim" of "anti-Tory bias" on the BBC. Apparently Joe Lycett's dead-on impression of someone very right-wing was too on the nose for the Mail especially.

Anyway, she's only a caretaker till the next election, assuming of course that Labour don't manage to shoot themselves in the foot again. And again. And again.

There is one good thing about the US political system, the 2 terms and you're done rule. Party too long in Government and they get a choice between Truss and Sunak, and the people get no choice at all.

> assuming of course that Labour don't manage to shoot themselves in the foot again.

It's a challenge, but who's to say Sir Keir isn't upto it ?

but who's to say Sir Keir isn't upto it ?

Everybody, including the unions and much of his own party? He was only really elected as leader because he wasn't Jeremy Corbyn.

"Anyway, she's only a caretaker till the next election, assuming of course that Labour don't manage to shoot themselves in the foot again. And again. And again."

I did find amusing, in a sad sort of way, when Starmer accused Truss of being "out of touch". Pot, kettle, etc.

He called on the new prime minister to go further and also resign ?

Not Thatcher.

Johnson.

So basically Johnson Mk II.

Or perhaps Johns-Lite?

The same rat-like instinct for self preservation.

The same say-whatever-they-want-to-hear routine.

The headlines say she will "suceed" Boris.

I think we need a new terminology, perhaps "su-fail" ?

@John Smith 19

Your namesake - John Smith would probably have been a decent PM

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[1] https://www.firefighterclosecalls.com/never-trust-the-truss

There was a cute wee blonde bairn on Scottish TV told that the new PM had went to her Paisley primary school. She shouted out, "I want to be Prime Minister!"

And all of Scotland wished she was. I can't guess her policies but less homework and longer play breaks sounds fine.

Was her name Nicola Sturgeon?

less homework and longer play breaks sounds fine

Ah, the SNP approach to successful economics. How's it working out for you up there, been on any good ferries lately?

Truss's new plan, England threatens to leave UK unless Scotland pays more !

I doubt if she's any better than BoJo, but Boris really went overboard with those Christmas lockdown parties. I bet Truss has similar thoughts about the plebs but at least she'll have the decency to turn it down somewhat.

She would have a party but not go herself and then throw everyone else under the bus