UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after just 45 days in office.

Re:UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after just 45 days in... by Gordonjcp on Thursday October 20, 2022 @09:56AM (#33274751)

It's an extremely biased opinion, and I make no apologies.

I think every single living member of every Tory cabinet present and past should be strung up in Parliament Square. I'm not in any sense unclear about my views on them.

We have had twelve years of disastrous Tory austerity that has comprehensively destroyed the UK's economy. What's the plan? Let them keep trying until they get something right? How long is it supposed to take for their austerity policies to work, to get the economy back to a sensible state?

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Re:UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after just 45 days in... by tomp on Thursday October 20, 2022 @10:16AM (#33274991)

This viewpoint is both evil (literally wanting to kill people... like the "best" politicians of the 20th century! /s) and delusional (UK had approximately 0 GDP growth since 2010, like other main European countries - so I doubt it was Brexit or Tories)

https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/NGDPDPC@WEO/DEU/FRA/...

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Re:UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after just 45 days in... by Gordonjcp on Thursday October 20, 2022 @10:25AM (#33275158)

So I should be tolerant of the people that have killed a couple of million people and destroyed the country?

At what point is it okay to no longer be tolerant of them?

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Re:UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after just 45 days in... by factcheckdec on Thursday October 20, 2022 @11:01AM (#33275791)

How many people did the government led by Tony Blair kill, by the way? Or do we only care about British lives?

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Re:UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after just 45 days in... by sbuk on Thursday October 20, 2022 @11:12AM (#33275952)

You seem to conveniently forget that Tories in parliament won him that vote. All the usual Tory rags (the Sun, Dailies Mail and Express and the Times) were all extremely hawkish, as we’re the leading Tories.

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Re:UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after just 45 days in... by smcl on Thursday October 20, 2022 @11:11AM (#33275944)

Being anti-Tory does not imply you're pro-Blair. I'd happily send Tony Blair to the Hague to answer for his crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Re:UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after just 45 days in... by Gordonjcp on Thursday October 20, 2022 @12:20PM (#33276969)

Tony Blair needs a brief visit to The Hague followed by an even shorter visit to a firing squad.

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Re:UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after just 45 days in... by sbuk on Thursday October 20, 2022 @01:58PM (#33278324)

Gordon Brown selling off our gold reserves wasn't the smartest move. But as you mention, the UK hasn't seen growth in our GDP since 2010. Which Party has been in power since May of 2010?

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Re:UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after just 45 days in... by factcheckdec on Thursday October 20, 2022 @10:59AM (#33275770)

@dang, here's a member calling for the execution of members of a political party.

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Re:UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after just 45 days in... by smcl on Thursday October 20, 2022 @11:15AM (#33275995)

This is the unintentionally-funniest comment I've seen on here for a while. Thank you.

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Re:UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after just 45 days in... by sbuk on Thursday October 20, 2022 @11:07AM (#33275865)

No - he’s expressing an opinion; “I think…”.

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Re:UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after just 45 days in... by implements on Thursday October 20, 2022 @12:07PM (#33276783)

Let’s pretend he meant “strung up and tickled”.

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