Thoughts about Truss 🧵
She wants to be seen as a radical, but doesn't have any radical ideas - merely destructive ones.
She wants to be seen as tough, but is just spectacularly brittle, blown about and shattered by every gust of political wind.
She wants to be seen as a radical, but doesn't have any radical ideas - merely destructive ones.
She wants to be seen as tough, but is just spectacularly brittle, blown about and shattered by every gust of political wind.
And she persuades herself she's a fresh thinker, but all she really does is listen to demonstrable facts, then mindlessly do whatever is the opposite and claim it's "being original".
It's childish contrarianism, masquerading as innovation, and fooling nobody.
It's childish contrarianism, masquerading as innovation, and fooling nobody.
And she has no hinterland. Only 50 MPs backed her in the 1st round of the leadership. 59% of members voted for her, but that's not a resounding majority, and it's evaporated now. No popular mandate. Cabinet discipline gone. Donors abandoning her. Markets lost all trust. Alone.
But despite her maniac instincts, her party - equally mad though it is - still has enough people with a sense of self-preservation to restrain her. And now she's de-fanged.
So her premiership will be awful, but less awful than it could have been if the budget hadn't blown up.
So her premiership will be awful, but less awful than it could have been if the budget hadn't blown up.
If the budget had gone as planned, she'd be riding high and have the swaggering confidence of a virtuoso dingbat. And she'd barge mindlessly ahead with 100 idiot ideas - which now she can't, cos her MPs will (somewhat) prevent her wildest spasms. Still shit, of course.
I think she'll sack Kwarteng (soon), attempt to place all the blame on him, and have a "reset". Then try to stumble on, a policy void with no support or trust.
But I think her MPs know they can't have ANOTHER new leader without a GE ... which they're terrified of.
But I think her MPs know they can't have ANOTHER new leader without a GE ... which they're terrified of.
So I think they'll delay a General Election for as long as possible.
I may be wrong - events could change all of this rapidly - but my gut feeling is that we're stuck with a Zombie Truss, barely leading a chaotic, ungovernable government until 2024.
Pint of tequila, anyone?
I may be wrong - events could change all of this rapidly - but my gut feeling is that we're stuck with a Zombie Truss, barely leading a chaotic, ungovernable government until 2024.
Pint of tequila, anyone?
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