So Kwarteng now says it’s all Liz Truss’s fault.

It's his version of "A big boy made me do it!" Honestly how did we finish up with such a bunch of childish, venal , incompetent idiots? He can't even take responsibility for his actions. Pathetic.

Nevertheless I think he's right. Amazing thing is why he's chosen just now to say it. By all accounts he isn't intellectually stupid.

In the words (or similar) of Mandy Rice-Davies,

“Well, he would say that, wouldn’t he?”.

He also failed to mention that he is on the payroll of Crispin Odey who was reported to have made £145m when Kwarteng crashed the markets. If I know this, why aren't reporters asking him?

Calendergirl - spot on !

Calendargirl

In the words (or similar) of Mandy Rice-Davies,

“Well, he would say that, wouldn’t he?”.

Absolutely. 😉

Bloody fool.

HousePlantQueen

He also failed to mention that he is on the payroll of Crispin Odey who was reported to have made £145m when Kwarteng crashed the markets. If I know this, why aren't reporters asking him?

You wont see that reported in the Torygraph or the Daily Fail

It was blood curdling listening to him! What an hypocrite of the highest order!

HousePlantQueen

He also failed to mention that he is on the payroll of Crispin Odey who was reported to have made £145m when Kwarteng crashed the markets. If I know this, why aren't reporters asking him?

THAT is indeed it. Just appalling, bordering on fraud on a massive scale, Insider Dealing to order.

Why should we now have to pay over the odds for our mortgages?, Why should we pay so much for our basic cost of living?, Why have our pension pots been shrunk?

Kwasi Kwarteng and Liz Truss should should be prosecuted.

Varian
Not true. That’s where I read it back in September.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11256675/Hedge-fund-tycoon-Crispin-Odeys-shameless-boasts-lucrative-bets-against-UK-plc.html

What's not true MerylStreep?

Surely you are not disputing the fact that Truss and Kwarteng trashed the economy?

Varian
Let’s try another way.
You said ( alluding to HPQs post @ 13. 26 that you won’t see that reported in the Torygraph or the Daily Fail
You did say that, didn’t you? Unless I’m reading something that you didn’t post.
I’m pointing out to you that the Daily Fail did report the relationship between Kwarteng and Odey and the money Odey made on the markets.

He hasn’t even got the decency to apologise…

No doubt he will be put up to the lord's in due course!

Anyone remember (they spout so much rubbish all the time that it is difficult to keep up) that Kwarteng was promising even more tax cuts?

Conveniently forgotten in his suppose criticism of Truss.

What a fool the man is.

He said it at the very end of his mini budget speech in parliament. He gleefully said ‘and there will be more to come’. The mini budget was bad enough but that’s what caused an even bigger problem.

Fleurpepper

It was blood curdling listening to him! What an hypocrite of the highest order!

Indeed.

What about collective responsibility. Certainly no gentleman, oops, can I say that now!!

The Mandy Rice Davies defence, methinks.

Revealed: the £30bn cost of Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-budget

www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/revealed-the-30bn-cost-of-liz-truss-s-disastrous-mini-budget/ar-AA142t2d?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=7d738628a31841f189b8ae980bc273aa

Truss and Kwarteng have done huge damage to our country and to the standard of living of everyone in it.

But Kwarteng knew better didn't he? After all is IQ is much higher than the majority of the population, or so he says.

I'm fed up with all these politicians who are "academically clever" but who show very little intelligence or awareness of how the majority live.