Granny Danger Posted September 13, 2022 Share Posted September 13, 2022 1 hour ago, Merkie84 said: No, someone unlikely to offer any meaningful resistance. Tornado bombers dropping bombs on Goat herders in some place no one has ever heard of is more likely. Especially if ruled by an easily caricatured tyrant. No way. I want us to be the plucky underdogs and when things look grim our friends and allies in Europe will come to… oh, wait… 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted September 14, 2022 Share Posted September 14, 2022 13 hours ago, Merkie84 said: No, someone unlikely to offer any meaningful resistance. Tornado bombers dropping bombs on Goat herders in some place no one has ever heard of is more likely. Especially if ruled by an easily caricatured tyrant. She's trying to locate Latveria on the map as we speak, having mistaken Dr Doom for Count Binface 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted September 14, 2022 Share Posted September 14, 2022 18 hours ago, Merkie84 said: No, someone unlikely to offer any meaningful resistance. France. I was told they were always quick to give up. Been a popular choice in the past. We could liberate the Channel Islands - even if they hadn't been invaded first. Macron. Friend or Foe. Meet your match. It just might work. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merkie84 Posted September 14, 2022 Share Posted September 14, 2022 1 hour ago, Fullerene said: France. I was told they were always quick to give up. Been a popular choice in the past. We could liberate the Channel Islands - even if they hadn't been invaded first. Macron. Friend or Foe. Meet your match. It just might work. “The jury is still out” as to whether they are an enemy or not so could be a good shout. Also close by so handy for getting broken down warships home. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted September 14, 2022 Share Posted September 14, 2022 4 minutes ago, Merkie84 said: “The jury is still out” as to whether they are an enemy or not so could be a good shout. Also close by so handy for getting broken down warships home. And he will be attending the Queen's funeral. Good opportunity for Truss to take him aside and discuss the matter further. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renton Posted September 14, 2022 Share Posted September 14, 2022 Truss must be raging. The traditional 'honeymoon' political capital an incoming leader would usually get is all being lost in the Royal circus. Instead of the usual light brush articles and opinion pieces, she'll already be at the public's 'now what are you going to do about it' stage when the 'festival of British death' is ended. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted September 15, 2022 Share Posted September 15, 2022 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/15/post-elizabethan-britain-queen-death-future-brexit "More serious than any potential loss of those largely symbolic overseas offices is the geopolitical uncertainty about Britain itself. In 1962, Dean Acheson, a former US Secretary of State, famously quipped that Britain had “lost an empire and not yet found a role”. Forty years later, at the time of the Queen’s golden jubilee in 2002, it was possible to believe that Britain had finally found that role. Somewhat in the spirit of today’s French president, Emmanuel Macron, it was a case of “as well as and”. Britain would be firmly anchored both in Europe and in the Anglosphere. It would have a special relationship with the US, but also with countries such as France, Germany and Poland. Few outside Britain think it has a clear and strong strategic position today. This is the tragedy of my country: to have found a post-imperial role and then to have lost it again. Since the vote for Brexit in 2016, the UK has descended from a hapless but still relatively pragmatic Conservative prime minister (Theresa May) to a parody of Winston Churchill (Boris Johnson) and thence to a parody of Margaret Thatcher (Liz Truss). The proportion of grandiose bluster has increased as that of fact-based realism has declined. There’s a lot of waffle about “global Britain”; nobody knows what it means." 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted September 15, 2022 Share Posted September 15, 2022 On 13/09/2022 at 11:26, Merkie84 said: No, someone unlikely to offer any meaningful resistance. Tornado bombers dropping bombs on Goat herders in some place no one has ever heard of is more likely. Especially if ruled by an easily caricatured tyrant. Not before the away leg of the First Qualifying Round is played, surely? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suspect Device Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 On 14/09/2022 at 07:30, Fullerene said: And he will be attending the Queen's funeral. Good opportunity for Truss to take him aside and discuss the matter further. Square go? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Granny Danger Posted September 16, 2022 Share Posted September 16, 2022 3 hours ago, Suspect Device said: Square go? Courier ready to run with good a Dundonian headline. “Liz Truss gets a punch in the pus”. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/17/trussonomics-britain-prime-minister-liz-truss-neoliberalism "Soon, the focus will return, and the collapse of many people’s economic prospects will dominate once more. As winter approaches, it will become clear that our politics is spectacularly lacking in answers. Why? Because the doctrine destroying our condition of life is the doctrine Liz Truss has promised to extend to new extremes. She is fanatically devoted to an ideology misleadingly called Thatcherism or Reaganism (as if they invented it), but more accurately described as neoliberalism. This doctrine insists that politics submits to “the market”, which means, when translated, that democracy must submit to the power of money. Any impediment to the accumulation of wealth – such as public ownership, tax, regulation, trade unions and political protest – should be torn down, either quickly and noisily or slowly and stealthily. When consumer choice is unencumbered by political interference, the market is allowed to become a Great Winnower, sifting us into a natural hierarchy of winners and losers." 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tamthebam Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 On 16/09/2022 at 12:32, Granny Danger said: Courier ready to run with good a Dundonian headline. “Liz Truss gets a punch in the pus”. The Inversneckie Snooper goes with the headline "Liz Truss aye gets a boot in the pie" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyderspaceman Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 I read this about Trusses appointments. It hasn't taken long to see why Truss didn't want an ethics adviser: ''Two powerful Conservative Party pressure groups with extensive financial ties to Liz Truss’ Cabinet have institutional and funding links to the pro-Trump Mercer Family Foundation. Robert and Rebekah Mercer are the billionaire philanthropists credited with being among Donald Trump’s biggest financial backers. They have funded a range of far-right groups in America – including white supremacists and supporters of the January 6 Capitol attack. Renowned Republican political strategist Steve Schmidt has described them as among “the chief financiers of the fascist movement”. Six of Liz Truss’ Cabinet appointments have funding ties to Conservative organisations connected to the Mercer lobby. While two of her formal advisors, and two independent advisors involved in shaping ‘Trussonomics’, come from these groups.'' The Deputy Prime Minister and Health and Social Care Secretary, the Chancellor, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Northern Ireland Minister, the Home Secretary, the Justice Secretary, and the Leader of the House – and the Prime Minister herself – all have institutional and financial links to the controversial Mercer lobby. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyderspaceman Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 On 13/09/2022 at 12:26, Merkie84 said: No, someone unlikely to offer any meaningful resistance. Tornado bombers dropping bombs on Goat herders in some place no one has ever heard of is more likely. Especially if ruled by an easily caricatured tyrant. Scotland? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soapy FFC Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 23 minutes ago, cyderspaceman said: I read this about Trusses appointments. It hasn't taken long to see why Truss didn't want an ethics adviser: ''Two powerful Conservative Party pressure groups with extensive financial ties to Liz Truss’ Cabinet have institutional and funding links to the pro-Trump Mercer Family Foundation. Robert and Rebekah Mercer are the billionaire philanthropists credited with being among Donald Trump’s biggest financial backers. They have funded a range of far-right groups in America – including white supremacists and supporters of the January 6 Capitol attack. Renowned Republican political strategist Steve Schmidt has described them as among “the chief financiers of the fascist movement”. Six of Liz Truss’ Cabinet appointments have funding ties to Conservative organisations connected to the Mercer lobby. While two of her formal advisors, and two independent advisors involved in shaping ‘Trussonomics’, come from these groups.'' The Deputy Prime Minister and Health and Social Care Secretary, the Chancellor, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Northern Ireland Minister, the Home Secretary, the Justice Secretary, and the Leader of the House – and the Prime Minister herself – all have institutional and financial links to the controversial Mercer lobby. But remember the Union Barons who manipulate Labour are the devil incarnate. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merkie84 Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 (edited) 19 hours ago, cyderspaceman said: Scotland? Yes maybe draw inspiration from another tory hero, Winston Churchill, and order tanks into George Square if there are any strikes going on. Edited September 19, 2022 by Merkie84 Spelling 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 The Hero we need who is going to bring back real Irn Bru. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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