Tory Party Conference

Theresa May without having to go even further back

It was a selective Grammar school, might have changed to comprehensive later but was selective when Mrs May started there.

Really nit-picking when there is so much else about her speech to discuss.

Callistemon21

^Theresa May without having to go even further back^

It was a selective Grammar school, might have changed to comprehensive later but was selective when Mrs May started there.

Really nit-picking when there is so much else about her speech to discuss.

Was Theresa May educated at a comprehensive school or not?

Maybe Truss thinks that when it turned comprehensive May stopped being educated.

She really didn't have to lie, yet she did and I think that's worth discussing. What other parts of her speech were lies?

I remember when a grammar school where we used to live changed to comprehensive some time around 1978.
A former neighbour had one child who started when it was a grammar school and the younger child after it became comprehensive.

The Y9s and above continued as a selective grammar school, there no intake from elsewhere so it was still a selective intake. Y8 and any year subsequently were non-selective.

It's a theoretical point.

Remind you of anyone?

volver

Remind you of anyone?

Just saw that on Facebook. What the **! Maybe her stylist is trying to tell us something? Surely Truss doesn’t watch BBC dramas. This is seriously freaky…

Didn’t Theresa May wear something very similar when she went to see Trump?

It seems Truss wore the dress in 2019.

Growth, Growth, Growth
Deliver, Deliver, Deliver
Bish Bash Bosh
what is it with 3 word repetitions? Looking forward to Therese Coffey driving those ambulances and treating people the same day.
Truss now less popular than Jeremy Corbyn was.

She has now identified most of the country as “the enemy within” which does not seem a sensible thing to do.

At least “the enemy” is the vast majority, so it will be easy to vote her out.

volver

Remind you of anyone?

An article in the Ties to-day tells us it is a Karen Millen dress (about £200) that is worn by lots of famous people including the Princess of Wales who worn a version in yellow for an official hospital visit.

I thought you would be interested in this story from The Times

The Princess of Wales and Liz Truss have a new favourite dress

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/fd40f306-44da-11ed-8885-043c27446b97?shareToken=21b4973e1cba6d35c6b8c4b3f24b799a

I think Nicola Sturgeon wears similar dresses and always looks very smart. The only thing that impressed me about Truss was her choice of clothes ( or choice of stylist) . Except when she’s wearing stuff from her dressing up box.

It was a selective Grammar school, might have changed to comprehensive later but was selective when Mrs May started there.
Not might have - did.
At the age of 13, she won a place at the former Holton Park Girls' Grammar School, a state school in Wheatley. During her time as a pupil, the Oxfordshire education system was reorganised, and the school became the new Wheatley Park Comprehensive School

Liz Truss referred to growing up in Paisley and Leeds during the 80s and 90s, and the effects of social and economic deprivation on communities. She said: “I know what it is like to live somewhere that isn’t feeling the benefits of economic growth … I’ve seen the boarded-up shops. I’ve seen people left with no hope turning to drugs

Maybe someone should have pointed out to Ms Truss that her heroine Margaret Thatcher was in power from 1979 to 1990. Poor research there! Or maybe her speechwriter hates her.

HousePlantQueen

*Liz Truss referred to growing up in Paisley and Leeds during the 80s and 90s, and the effects of social and economic deprivation on communities. She said: “I know what it is like to live somewhere that isn’t feeling the benefits of economic growth … I’ve seen the boarded-up shops. I’ve seen people left with no hope turning to drugs*

Maybe someone should have pointed out to Ms Truss that her heroine Margaret Thatcher was in power from 1979 to 1990. Poor research there! Or maybe her speechwriter hates her.

So that’s her speechwriter and stylist (up to now…oh of course there’s a lot of her MP’s too)

MayBee70

I think Nicola Sturgeon wears similar dresses and always looks very smart. The only thing that impressed me about Truss was her choice of clothes ( or choice of stylist) . Except when she’s wearing stuff from her dressing up box.

Yes I think the same. I liked the green dress she wore.

Truss wears dresses with peplums and I’m very fond of peplums. In my youth I had a Biba jersey maxi dress with a wide belt and a peplum and it was my favourite dress ever. And cummerbunds. I like those too (how shallow am I )

I can’t wear peplums - too rotund.

MayBee70

HousePlantQueen

Liz Truss referred to growing up in Paisley and Leeds during the 80s and 90s, and the effects of social and economic deprivation on communities. She said: “I know what it is like to live somewhere that isn’t feeling the benefits of economic growth … I’ve seen the boarded-up shops. I’ve seen people left with no hope turning to drugs

Maybe someone should have pointed out to Ms Truss that her heroine Margaret Thatcher was in power from 1979 to 1990. Poor research there! Or maybe her speechwriter hates her.

So that’s her speechwriter and stylist (up to now…oh of course there’s a lot of her MP’s too)

Liz Truss was born in 1975. She was 15 when Thatcher was replaced. I doubt if she was even that politically aware before that age and doesn't know what many people really thought of Thatcher. Thatcher has become idealised as a historical figure by people who didn't experience her premiership.

Maybe Truss should make a return trip to the boarded-up areas of Leeds and Paisley and see how they've fared after 12 years of Tory government. Maybe she should think through how her vision would affect those and so many similar areas.

growstuff

MayBee70

HousePlantQueen

Liz Truss referred to growing up in Paisley and Leeds during the 80s and 90s, and the effects of social and economic deprivation on communities. She said: “I know what it is like to live somewhere that isn’t feeling the benefits of economic growth … I’ve seen the boarded-up shops. I’ve seen people left with no hope turning to drugs

Maybe someone should have pointed out to Ms Truss that her heroine Margaret Thatcher was in power from 1979 to 1990. Poor research there! Or maybe her speechwriter hates her.

So that’s her speechwriter and stylist (up to now…oh of course there’s a lot of her MP’s too)

Liz Truss was born in 1975. She was 15 when Thatcher was replaced. I doubt if she was even that politically aware before that age and doesn't know what many people really thought of Thatcher. Thatcher has become idealised as a historical figure by people who didn't experience her premiership.

Truss had left wing parents. I've seen it said that they are/were political activists. If they were, I'm sure they might have mentioned Thatcher a time or two before little Liz was 15... And I doubt the 'mention' would have been positive..

So why do the grown-up Liz and her cronies think such a lot of Thatcher? Is she rebelling against her parents?

I rebelled against my own parents' political beliefs, so I sort of understand that. However, what they seem to have done is airbrushed all the negative side of Thatcherism.

I'm just trying to put this into context. My son is very politically aware, has a degree in politics and economics and is currently studying for a masters in a politics-related subject. I suspect some of his interest came from his mother. Blair was PM for a significant chunk of my life, but my son was 10 when Blair resigned and he hardly remembers him. The euphoria of Labour's win, the disillusion and the opposition to Iraq are history to him. Whenever I mention Blair in any discussion I have with him, I have to explain the context because he didn't experience it. To Truss, Thatcher is largely a historic figure for younger people and I wonder if she's only ever read about the so-called "good" bits. Historians have a habit of distorting history.

While discussing Truss’ dress - does anyone else think she should maybe invest in a good bra? Before I’m piled on for being misogynistic, or we mustn’t comment on women’s appearance etc , comments were made on Johnsons sloppy suits , tie waving over crotch etc so this is just an observation .

She could dress like a sack of spuds as far as I’m concerned provided she ‘delivers’. Hmm. That’s debatable isn’t it? I think she means well (in a Head Girl, jolly hockey sticks type of way, full on with enthusiasm) but is out of her depth in many ways.

I think that it is a mixture of two things. First Truss is an opportunist and a good political operator.

Second and given her history, I have to give her the benefit of the doubt but as she not long ago said of Macron “the jury is out on that” she has apparently been on an ideological journey throughout her life.
She has ended swinging from one liberal interventionist ideology to the complete opposite. She is now a libertarian and small stater, just like Thatcher and Reagan.
That is where her admiration of thatcher comes from. She is modelling herself on Thatcher. The trouble is she has neither Thatchers brain nor subtlety.

This will almost certainly mean that she will lurch from crises to crises as she tries to pursue her neo-liberalist policies, - policies over which the majority of parliament have severe doubts or downright hostility, simply because Thatcher and Reagan proved that they could not work and god knows they tried hard enough.

I have just been reading how dangerous the crises was after the so called mini-budget and how close the U.K. came to economic collapse.

I don’t think the majority of the country realise just how serious it is. DH pension would have totally collapsed if the company had not rushed money into it - and that can’t go on. Undoubtedly other pensions were severely (potentially fatally) affected.

Truss is a severe liability to our finances and it can’t continue.

Still she’s “friends” with Macron now. What a load of nonsense!