I see that Liz Truss has certainly ruffled a few feathers in the area where she grew up, by slagging off her education.
When she said she had grown up in the heart of the red wall, it gave me the impression that she must have grown up in some downbeat poor neglected area, controlled by Labour, and that is why she eventually made her way to being Conservative, via the LibDems.
It made me smile to discover that the “terrible school” she described and the place where she grew up was in Roundhay, which is in a Constituency that was held by a Conservative MP for the whole time Liz lived there and Conservative Councillors when she was at school there.
Methinks she is exaggerating a tad - projecting the image of growing up in the school of hard knocks for political expediency
It’s strange how differently other people who attended the same school at the same time remember it - I did find one journalist writing in The Telegraph who remembered it the way Liz does but lots of other folk remember it differently - maybe their different memories are coloured by their political views.
But when you compare it with all the vulgar lack of decorum over the years from Johnson, even in his final PMQs, that his devotees apparently love him for, condemning Rishi for this is surely a bit harsh!
Yes, yes, alright, its a personal bugbear of mine is the fist pump, never mind…I was going to add something along those lines but I felt it would be off on a tangent. They are all lacking in decorum.
From mail I’ve received for up t’north, knifing BJ will have lost the Tories the next GE. All say the same … they voted for BJ and not the party in general.
I agree with you Pixie, fist pumping should be reserved for athletes because they have done something worthy of praise. A bit childish when a politician does it, we expect better.
I don’t consider Rees-Mogg shows decorum - he is frequently unpleasantly sarcastic - and lounging on the front bench with your eyes closed in the House of Commons during a key debate whilst another MP is speaking is not a sign of “decorum” - it is downright rude!
Exactly. And Rees-Smugg (I actually dislike name calling but in this case it is less abusive and more simply descriptive) is not a man for stepping up to the leadership role. He would much rather be the chap behind, manipulating the person in front. I think he might have learnt that technique at private boys school.
I changed my vote - looks like they’ll choose dizzy lizzy. Fishy rishy (or should it be richy rishy!) is just as bad tho. Either way neither of them were voted in by the public, so early election is almost a certainty
I read earlier that Rishi is a bit peeved that Boris isn’t texting him back, nor returning his phonecalls! Aww, well I’m glad he stuck by his moral duty, despite not liking him still.
Well Jacob Rees Mogg is calling for a discussion on reducing what the state does.
Not just reducing things, aboloshing parts of government all together
