Truss (general uk sucks thread)

Looks like it is going down well. Another high profile resignation.

How is there no one better that Patel for such an important job? Absolute shambles.

Taking this purely objectively, and as somebody who despises the current Conservative Party, I think the Patel case is over-the-top.

This isn’t bullying. Bullying is pushing the work experience kid in the fountain outside work every day. This is giving bollockings to senior civil servants who in many cases get paid upwards of £60,000 a year (I expect) and are expected to perform in high-pressure, high-stakes situations.

bosstrabs In the context of the workplace, bullying is repeatedly singling the same person out for criticism and verbal abuse, typically in front of others. This isn’t a case of that for me.

bosstrabs most wouldn’t get out of bed for that kind of wedge. Let alone to sit at your desk while that axe wound Patel mithers the face off you.

I was including any lower ranking ones she might have bollocked too there.

Median income in the UK is actually £29,000.

bosstrabs Median income in the UK is actually £29,000.

Thays only 1k off paying for an extension

Mad_Cyril usually on borrowed money

That was great. Liz Truss. Is. A. Disgrace.

Millsy shut up. Liz Truss is hot.

Amps that’s actually a really interesting and intelligent question in my opinion. Something I am many other people have been thinking about quite a lot.

you could break it down like this. Say there are three possibilities. Reintegration, peaceful separation, further disintegration.

I reckon peaceful separation has got to be at least a 7 out of ten shot over a ten year horizon. 2/10 for further disintegration and 10% chance of reintegration.

I’m not trying to deny there will be significant downsides, in the short term especially, but over the medium to long term it’s really hard to say what the optimal configuration would look like. I see a lot of advantages for all stakeholders (consumers, producers, entrepreneurs) in having the UK outside of the EU.

This is not some sort of ideological position. I’m not massively anti EU and was a reluctant remainer. I’m a Green tory if such a thing exists. small t, big p as I tell the ladies.

I just think it is often for the greater good to not have huge economic and legislative power concentrated in the hands of a small number of people. In fact, there’s not much I feel more sure about than that.