If Liz Truss becomes PM, we will have to invent new words to describe the scale of her failures. ✍️ The fact that Truss has made it this far is decisive evidence that the Conservative Party has completely lost its mind. 🔵 IanDunt for ipaperviews
Truss beat out Penny Mordaunt this afternoon in the final stage of the Tory parliamentary party’s death-match voting ritual
Yes, that’s right – it’s Sunak vs Truss, the uninspiring versus the unintelligible, the tiresome versus the deranged. What a time to be alive. Still, it’s cool. Everything will be fine. It’s not like we’re living in an era of suffocated living standards set against a backdrop of pronounced geopolitical instability and an existential climate crisis. Then we’d really be fucked.
That alone is an extraordinary fact, the kind of thing that makes you wonder if we’ve slipped into some sort of alternate horror-comedy version of reality. She’s been utterly hopeless throughout: intellectually bereft, presentationally dismal, without a single clear idea for how she would improve the country apart from a handful of economic contributions which sounded like they’d been written in crayon while she howled at the moon.
Even Sunak, who to his credit does at least have a passing relationship with empirical reality, should be nowhere near this stage. In any previous post-war administration, he would have been considered a genial if unremarkable junior minister. He’d have been the guy the secretary of state allowed to answer a question in Parliament if they didn’t feel like it, or sent out for media interviews when they were away on summer holidays.
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