Can Liz Truss front PMQs on Wednesday?

Self immolation

Farzanah

rosie1959

I listened to PMQs today usual batting back and forth but I did feel Keir Starmers opening comments were unnecessary more like pub banter

I agree rosie. I thought he was poor. An open goal and he couldn’t score.

"When your enemy is in the process of destroying himself, stay out of his way."

Sun Tzu

Sir Roger Gale, who I used to have a bit of respect for, has just said that Keir ‘didn’t land a blow on Truss at PMQT today’. Well he wasn’t watching the PMQT that I was. As with Johnson and vaccine rollout all she does is repeat the same old stuff over and over again.

Farzanah

rosie1959

I listened to PMQs today usual batting back and forth but I did feel Keir Starmers opening comments were unnecessary more like pub banter

I agree rosie. I thought he was poor. An open goal and he couldn’t score.

As the Queen said, ‘Recollections may vary’.
I thought he took the rise out of her exceptionally well, she was back to her finger pointing, which is never a good look.

rosie1959

I listened to PMQs today usual batting back and forth but I did feel Keir Starmers opening comments were unnecessary more like pub banter

I agree rosie. I thought he was poor. An open goal and he couldn’t score.

I listened to PMQs today usual batting back and forth but I did feel Keir Starmers opening comments were unnecessary more like pub banter

MayBee70

I thought Buddhists were supposed to be nice, gentle people?

Except in Myanmar apparently, but the ones I know certainly are.

MayBee70

I thought Buddhists were supposed to be nice, gentle people?

Well, she’s certainly had a lesson in Karma today

Dickens, it’s rather dated and unimaginative though. Couldn’t she do any better than that? (Spoiler: no)
I think even the Tory faithful will be groaning.
It’s very Littlejohn early 1990s.

MayBee yes, it’s very odd indeed. Rather like Ms Braverman herself

Thoroughly enjoyed Sir Keir Starmer on PMQs today.

I thought Buddhists were supposed to be nice, gentle people?

growstuff

Braveman was really desperate! Tofu eating? Guardian reading?

What about muesli munching or sandal wearing?

It was a dog-whistle call to the right-wing-erati.

Create an association in the mind between Labour and the tofu-eating, Guardian-reading protestors in a desperate attempt to shore up the fast-disappearing support for the government led by Truss.

It was populist, rabble-rousing, and she should be ashamed.

Re Braverman
I’ve just found this.
Definitely worth a look! ?
amp.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/15/new-attorney-general-suella-braverman-in-controversial-buddhist-sect

This should be interesting at PMQ too, picked up from Sky News this morning:

‘Sajid Javid, who is a backbench Conservative, is second on the list of MPs to ask a question today.
The Bromsgrove politician was one of the people being touted to replace Kwasi Kwarteng as chancellor last weekend before Jeremy Hunt was appointed.
In response to this, The Sunday Times reported that a Number 10 source said "the prime minister laughed out loud at the suggestion”.
"She has sat in the cabinet with Javid for ten years and she knows who is good and who is s***," they added.’

If I were Javid I would drop her right in the s***!

foxie48

MayBee70 I listen to "The rest is politics" It's an excellent podcast.

It’s brilliant isn’t it! I’d love to go to their live show.

MayBee70 I listen to "The rest is politics" It's an excellent podcast.

Truss appears absolutely soulless.
She will trot out any statement she is told to say
If she drops the triple lock pledge on pensions it will be the last nail in her coffin

I read that she’s going to be forced to have a cabinet reshuffle and get rid of most of her pals. We’re going to end up with a far right puppet PM with a centre right cabinet.

I guess she could announce a GE, has she got the unilateral power?. Would she be that vindictive?. Is she that desperate to hang on to power for a few weeks?.

She'll front PMQs if she can find her way out of the paper bag!

Devorgilla

Does anyone else wonder if Liz Truss had been a man in the exact same situation whether he would have been so publicly humiliated? Seems to me there is a strong element of sexism in there. No doubt at all that she brought the political recriminations on her own head. However, I think if she had been a man the party would have found a way round it so that public humiliation was not so obvious.
I'd love the whole Tory lot to go.
There is part of me that wickedly thinks, as she has nothing else to lose, she should appear at the lectern and announce she is calling for a general election and then watch them all run around like headless chickens. I think there has to be a vote to call the election but I did wonder that if they voted against calling one would that indicate they had confidence in her to continue?

I was also wondering today about what if she had been a male politician but haven’t reached any conclusions. I’d love to ask Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell that very question in their podcast.

Devorgilla . Great idea. Go on Liz go for a general election ( if only) ?

Wasnt Public Humiliation good part of Johnson’s demise, or Clinton or Nixon, nothing to do with gender, everything to do with integrity and ability.
Johnson was lazy and couldn’t lie straight in bed so was sacked.

Does anyone else wonder if Liz Truss had been a man in the exact same situation whether he would have been so publicly humiliated? Seems to me there is a strong element of sexism in there. No doubt at all that she brought the political recriminations on her own head. However, I think if she had been a man the party would have found a way round it so that public humiliation was not so obvious.
I'd love the whole Tory lot to go.
There is part of me that wickedly thinks, as she has nothing else to lose, she should appear at the lectern and announce she is calling for a general election and then watch them all run around like headless chickens. I think there has to be a vote to call the election but I did wonder that if they voted against calling one would that indicate they had confidence in her to continue?

Braveman was really desperate! Tofu eating? Guardian reading?

What about muesli munching or sandal wearing?