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Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 15, 2024 20:51:09 GMT
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Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 15, 2024 20:55:20 GMT
The greatest mystery of modern politics? Liz Truss’s self belief Zoe Williams The former prime minister is teaching us a lot about narcissism in her new memoir, and it’s hard to tear your eyes away. Liz Truss’s memoir, Ten Years to Save the West, first penetrated the nation’s consciousness with her reflections on the death of Queen Elizabeth II. “Why me?” the former prime minister wrote. “Why now?” It was actually pretty funny, the depth and shamelessness of her narcissism; so funny, in fact, that I felt that, somewhere along the line, she had been stitched up by an editor. Fair play; I too would stitch her up in that job. It’s hard to be your best, most generous self towards a person you hold personally responsible for the fact that your mortgage is now 100% higher than it used to be. But a kinder, more mature person would have at least scribbled in the margin: “Are you absolutely sure you want to connect yourself, who served for 49 days, with the death of death of a monarch who served the nation for 70 years?” … www.theguardian.com/politics/commentisfree/2024/apr/15/the-greatest-mystery-of-modern-politics-liz-trusss-self-beliefThe lack of self-awareness is astonishing. A poster child for the Dunning Kruger effect.
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Apr 15, 2024 20:58:04 GMT
She has joined the full-on loony Icke & American crowds.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 16, 2024 8:23:01 GMT
Liz Truss has kindly offered to ‘save the west’. But who will save her from her delusions? Gaby Hinsliff The former PM’s book claims she was undermined by ‘establishment’ enemies. It instead shows exactly why her friends deserted her So it wasn’t just a bad dream, then. Liz Truss really did become prime minister, and that brief ensuing moment of madness really did happen. It must have done because she’s written a book about it, though given the brevity of her stay at No 10 it’s arguably less a memoir of her time there than a kind of extended Tripadvisor review. (Great location for central London; shame about the fleas.) And while calling it Ten Years to Save the West may suggest faintly deluded levels of self-belief, given Britain had to be saved from the author after less than seven weeks, it’s accidentally very revealing about the deeper reasons for that overconfidence and what they mean for the country. Truss entered parliament in the golden Tory era of 2010, and prospered despite bosses who clearly grasped her faults. (Theresa May, she writes, wanted to sack her but didn’t feel strong enough; Boris Johnson’s allies have long suspected he promoted her to crowd the pitch for others he considered more of a serious threat.) In comparison with Labour politicians of the time, she was therefore playing politics mostly on the easy setting: one where the biggest newspapers bend over backwards to be kind, the City broadly shares your view of wealth creation, and a lack of serious challenge from the opposition makes it possible to believe that the facts of life will remain Conservative, regardless of what Conservatism itself actually morphs into.… www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/16/liz-truss-save-the-west-delusions
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Post by notoriousnobbi on Apr 16, 2024 14:16:11 GMT
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Post by risenmillard on Apr 16, 2024 14:31:51 GMT
Yes, I see you'd be right at home in Wetherspoon's.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 16, 2024 15:06:20 GMT
Yes, I see you'd be right at home in Wetherspoon's. You a Liz fan? Otherwise your comment makes little sense.
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Post by notoriousnobbi on Apr 17, 2024 12:29:57 GMT
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