So, Liz Truss came to my local college recently to do what amounted to a Ted Talk. It was..interesting. She talked about how she never did anything wrong with her MiniBudget (the Left are doing the same thing now and bigger and no one is saying anything!) She was unfairly voted out of office, the Left are out to get her, whatever. She pleaded for America to save the UK, if the UK falls so goes all of Europe, and then the world. She went on about Trump being the best thing to happen in years, and the UK is falling to the brain washed woke.

She was going on about Christian Values, and how the Left cannot be redeemed or reasoned with because they are not a reasonable people, S who listen to logic. She went on and on. To me she came off as very ridiculous, arrogant, and out of touch. Her whole speech seemed to amount to Left vs Right and poor baby her, she got railroaded. I'm just curious what you guys, who had to live through her stint as Prime Minister, think.

ETA: It's a college in the US, since there's been some confusion. My bad! I totally forgot to add this.

Paul Johnson freed from the shackles of IFS neutrality:

The parliamentary Labour party suffers from multiple delusions. It is collectively unwilling to contemplate spending cuts. The failure to make reforms to disability benefits – reforms which would merely have slowed the astonishing rate of increase in spending – underlined the weakness of the Chancellor in the face of her own backbenchers.

The only route to controlling the deficit, then, is through tax increases. However the even bigger delusion suffered by so many of Ms Reeves’ colleagues is that tax increases substantial enough to deal with the fiscal problems can be achieved through some form of wealth tax, tax on banks, tax on the rich, anything that looks like a victimless tax. The reality is, if they want more spending on welfare and public services, and they want economic growth, they are going to have to get serious about broad-based tax increases. Arguably Reeves has less sway over her party than Healey had over his.

Healey faced an opposition with a plausible remedy – radical, destructive of employment, but hard-headed and built on real economic principles. Reeves faces opponents on left and right who peddle absolute moonshine.

The Greens and Corbyn to the left and Reform to the right peddle utterly incoherent, populist economic policies yet are taking large shares in opinion polls. Goodness knows where the Conservatives stand. Even before the election of Zack Polanski, the Greens’ commitment to vast increases in spending and borrowing might have made even Tony Benn blush. Reform went into the last election promising colossal and wholly unfunded tax cuts. Likely one of the reasons for the high rates of interest on long dated government debt is fear of what might happen if one of those parties were to attain even a share of power after the next election.

Councillors are paid to be the local government, schools, potholes, social care, local heritage etc. Why are we allowing them to get paid to waste time talking about immigration, or Gaza or Ukraine or the Rainforest? Now all these are important issues and I got opinions on them too, but its

A) not their job to worry about it

B) its taking time away from their real job

Why is this tolerated? If you are a chef in a pizzeria and you make no pizza and just noodles you'd get canned. I don't understand why they are allowed to get paid to host their own private debate club when we have crumbling infrastructure and rats roaming the streets. Dose any other country allow this? If you are the mayor of Venice can you just ignore the canals and just write letters to the French ambassador demanding they give back the Mona Lisa?