Copper Spork: iheartscotch: If only there was some sort of organization that a country could belong to that could supply it all the power it needed....

As fun as it is to blame everything on Brexit, in this case it's a whole different long-term Tory clusterfsck that's driving it.

Except Brexit is still ongoing as the Northern Ireland parts of it have still not been resolved (mostly so the Torries can point a Brussels for at least one thing to distract people)

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The Torries are definitely missing their favorite clown right now since he was really good and making the press's head spin with his lies.

mofa: huma474: Copper Spork: iheartscotch: If only there was some sort of organization that a country could belong to that could supply it all the power it needed....

As fun as it is to blame everything on Brexit, in this case it's a whole different long-term Tory clusterfsck that's driving it.

Except Brexit is still ongoing as the Northern Ireland parts of it have still not been resolved (mostly so the Torries can point a Brussels for at least one thing to distract people)

The UK also seems to have indefinitely delayed checking goods imported from the EU. Too time consuming. This'll eventually cause problems when the WTO sues them, as it puts all other WTO countries at an unfair disadvantage.

// So instead of the mythical U.S. trade deal, the UK might get a lawsuit where the U.S. is one of the plaintiffs.
// Pork Markets™!

Lol, The Mythical trade deal hit a road block years ago:

PartTimeBuddha: Unscratchable_Itch: Is she... is she worse than Boris Johnson?

She's worse than the bus driver who just wants to go her own way you know.

But, seriously, if "Immediately destroying your country" is on the score card then, yes, she is worse than Alexander Johnson.

Then again, maybe it's useful to look at them both as the same person. One is unkempt, the other unshaved.

Truss's fundamental problems can be summed up very quickly: She believes that she is the second coming of Marget Thatcher. That fundamentally shows how utterly out of touch with reality that she is.

The world that people like Thatcher and Regan occupied no longer exists - there is no Soviet Union to blame everything on while hoping that non communist powers would bail out any mistakes you made so that you didn't stop fighting the Soviets. Thatcher only survived because of Regan. Without Regan Thatcher would have failed within the first few months of her getting.

She has entered a world where she is trying to play quarter trumper while following a clown who fundamentally understood how to manipulate people to work against their best interests. The fact that she went ahead with destroying the pound even when she was told during her hustings what would happen shows how utterly detached she is.

She's praying that she can honk her nose enough to distract people while having never understood the comedy of errors she has inherited.

Gordon Bennett: DemonEater: Kris_Romm: JamesSirBensonMum: Or, just hear me out here, it is the fault of people who voted for her.

Yeah, that's not how the UK system works, right?.

Here's how many people actually voted for her: (take away the asterisks--apparently parliament hates direct links)

***https://members.parliament.uk/constituency/3757/election-history***

I mean, the people had a post-brexit general election where Boris fricking Johnson was face of the Tories and the conservatives increased their majority.

So yes, the people of Britain chose this. Even if only 80k of the party faithful voted for Truss specifically, it's not like she's super different from the rest of them. Less competent perhaps, but it's not like Boris was a paragon of leadership ability.

Truss is just the logical conclusion of voting Tory.

The people of England (outside of major cities) chose this.

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Oh dear, you seem to have hit on the fundamental problem with the UK system - population has no relation to representation.