Liz Truss reminds me of a girl I knew as a teenager and I didn't share this during the leadership race because it's not especially kind and I suppose doesn't reflect well on me, as I was at that time. Forty years ago. Obviously, I'm not the same person now. (yeh and before you say that I'm much much worse now Dennis, you can go f&&k your colonial self!
Liz strikes me as nice enough. Not the brightest by a long way, but keen. Keen enough that I could see her in a low level management role. But nothing critical. A personnel officer, in a regional retailers or similar. She got the job because her father was owed a favour and the owner of the chain keeps a very tight rein, in case she lands them in an employment tribunal.
But, she looks a bit odd. She'd always be on the periphery of the cool kids, or whatever social group that she aspired to in as a teen. She wasn't outstanding at anything. A plodder.
Looks-wise, as I said. A bit odd. What in unkind parlance would be referred to as a swamp donkey. One of the girls you'd get off with at the end of the night, if you had beer goggles on and the girl you really wanted to see, hadn't turned up that night. The next morning however, you wouldn't give her the time of day. Or perhaps only enough, so you didn't seriously hurt her feelings. But, you certainly didn't want to be seen with her, cause that would do your rep no good at all. I suppose this is one of those instances where a nom de plume is useful and I'll say no more than that.
Why am I relating this pitiful tale about the shallow youth I once was. Well, as soon as I saw Liz Truss, I immediately thought of the girl I knew forty years ago. And if I could see all of the negative traits in Truss that must've been obvious to all, because we were all discussing them; why couldn't the Conservative members? Or, are they so prejudiced that they would've voted for the town rat catcher, rather than have a person of colour in Number 10?
For the record, I believe both Truss and Sunak to be equally inept, in their own different ways.
So, the chickens have come whom to roost. Or, whatever similar expression you would choose to sum up where we find ourselves. YouGuv predicts that under this Prime Minister, the Tories would essentially be wiped out at the next election, with less than forty seats in the Commons. Labour are estimated to be almost forty points ahead in opinion polls. Which I don't think I've seen in my lifetime. And IMO Labour are no better and in no way can offer even a hint of a future credible government.
The question now is. How quickly will the 1922 Committee wield the knife and afterwards will we be any better off?
My answer. Only if those who stood previously sit out the next leadership race. With the exception of Tom Tugendhat (if he ran, I can't recall. there were so many at one point).
For anyone who believes another leadership race is the last thing the country needs, I would say. Truss must be in the running for the worst PM that we've ever had, despite only starting her tenure of Number 10 and with Putin threatening nuclear war in Europe, is she really who we want leading the country? (rhetorical)