Current Affairs Liz Truss

[Eggs]

…so the new PMs husband is from Allerton, get everywhere those scousers.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

It's primarily the civil servants that actually run things. Politicians are there to provide a degree of accountability and to bluster. I mean it's noticeable that for all of Patel's utter ghoulishness, practically none of the crackpot ideas she presents have actually happened, due in large part to them being wholly unworkable. There have been three chancellors under Johnson's disastrous premiership, and yet the treasury hasn't changed tack a great deal in that time.

If you think of a spectrum, you've got civil servants, who are nearly always experts in their field at one end. At the other end, you've got us, who are nearly always clueless. Because politicians have to appeal to the clueless for votes, they're nearly always more towards us than they are the experts.

 

[Ruairi77]

Just watched the clip. The best part of this is the awkward pause where the otherwise mindlessly-clapping Communist-Party-of-whatever-such-state-you-care-to-name has a very uncomfortable pause before realizing that this awkward phrasing is in fact meant to be an applause line. Then they look around all on edge waiting for someone else to be an opinion leader before joining in.

Says it all, really.

My mother in Ireland took in some Ukranian refugees. I went home to help them get set up. I noticed that they were quick to correct people when they used the Russian pronunciation of Kyiv. Seems like a basic thing she or her aides should have gotten right.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

My mother in Ireland took in some Ukranian refugees. I went home to help them get set up. I noticed that they were quick to correct people when they used the Russian pronunciation of Kyiv. Seems like a basic thing she or her aides should have gotten right.

Which is the correct one out of interest?

 

[roydo]

Which is the correct one out of interest?

Not the one we use if we were playing Dynamo Kiev next week.

 

[bluelife]

…so the new PMs husband is from Allerton, get everywhere those scousers.

Been cheated on by our new prime minister. Seems to be a pre-req to have had an affair now.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Not the one we use if we were playing Dynamo Kiev next week.

If only

 

[roydo]

If only

Aye. That said, where they the Ukraine team we played in a pre season? Or did I dream that?

 

[Ruairi77]

Which is the correct one out of interest?

as far as I can tell, the Ukrainian way is Kyiv which sounds like 'Keev'
the Russian way is Kiev which sounds like the chicken meal. The version Truss used.

 

[tsubaki]

Been cheated on by our new prime minister. Seems to be a pre-req to have had an affair now.

affairs in her case, at least if the leaked tory whip document thing was true (which it seems to have been)

 

[Lobster Johnson]

Going green is a very expensive business. Also, this net zero and no new petrol/diesel cars sounds lovely, but will make no difference to the planet as China and the rest of the world churn out the crap. But it will bankrupt the UK…

Should probably just not bother then, hey? Let the world burn!

 

[Groucho]

It’s probably be best to fold the nation and restart as a phoenix club, UKFC or something.

 

[Jimishorts]

Hope it pees down mid-speech and we get a ‘wally with a brolly’ moment.

 

[Moomin]

Going green is a very expensive business. Also, this net zero and no new petrol/diesel cars sounds lovely, but will make no difference to the planet as China and the rest of the world churn out the crap. But it will bankrupt the UK…

Going green will be a boom industry for the UK if we do it right.

 

[Joey66]

Going green is a very expensive business. Also, this net zero and no new petrol/diesel cars sounds lovely, but will make no difference to the planet as China and the rest of the world churn out the crap. But it will bankrupt the UK…

Plus aeroplanes burning carosine the most crude fuel (parafine gas )
Fracking is a very dangerous option in the UK....