Before the prime minister and chancellor's meeting with the head of the government's independent forecaster on Friday morning, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released figures showing that rather than the economy being 0.6% larger than in February 2020, a combination of a deeper recession during the pandemic and a weak recovery had left it 0.2% smaller. European leaders hoping for more constructive post-Brexit relations with the UK will be wary of Truss as prime minister given she has frequently raised tensions with Brussels by demanding parts of the Brexit deal be renegotiated and threatened to provoke a trade war between the EU and the UK by triggering Article 16 of the Withdrawal Agreement.

Media commentators across Europe have been making comparisons between Truss and former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. With a financial crisis in full swing and divisions in her own party to contend with, “Truss will struggle to be the mistress of her own destiny”, said Robert Shrimsley in the Financial Times. The billionaire was hosting the meeting, surrounded by high-profile guests. But according to observers, when Kwarteng turned up, he began to act as if he was the one in charge of the meeting "offering his opinion on everything" and "lecturing" Gates about the businessman's own expert subject. It was "bizarre and embarrassing" to watch, according to one person with knowledge of the episode. Quote from: Alberon on October 19, 2022, 02:57:09 PMThree line whip means, I think, they have to vote for the government to keep the whip. According to its definition, a wind vane is nothing more or less than a metal plate that moves around a vertical axis and is positioned on top of a building or roof to indicate the direction of the wind.Today, other devices use technology to steal the rooster’s work: such as the anemometer, which indicates more information about the wind, such as its speed. Italy’s Corriere della Sera also compared Truss to Thatcher but described the new leader’s speeches as more “robotic”. Politicians in eastern Europe, meanwhile, who openly applaud the UK for its tough stance towards the Kremlin, have been “unreservedly warm”, said Adler. Truss alarmed diplomats at home and in Paris this summer when replying that “the jury was out” on whether French President Emmanuel Macron was a friend or foe of the UK.

Let's face it, our little wrought iron rooster that sits proudly atop its roof is not the most accurate: for any weather enthusiast (let alone professional), it's not clear that you can trust a weathervane. Even when in perfect condition, it may not be pointing in the exact direction of the wind, as all weathervanes should in theory. A second former cabinet minister told another MP just last week they had found him "extremely difficult" to get on with. The President of the European Commission Ursula Von der Leyen was therefore understandably prudent in her response to the news.

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Like Russia, China has made little secret of its disdain for Truss’s hawkish approach towards Beijing, and her victory is “likely leading to a ramping up of anti-China rhetoric that will solidify years of rising tensions”, said Nikkei Asia. Quote from: jobotic on October 18, 2022, 11:30:40 AMBut if she is feeling crushed I very much doubt that the suffering she has caused her fellow human beings comes into it in any way. You know a great deal more about these things than I do but I do think, when looking at the reasons for inflation, you have to include the pandemic price hiking. I'm bloody careful with my shopping, I have to be, and I noticed without any shadow of a doubt a week by week increase in prices at my local shop during the shit. It's left me with a shopping bill that's gone up by around 20% over the period.

True to form, one host on Russian state TV reacted to her victory in the Tory leadership election by declaring: “Stupidity has triumphed: Liz Truss has become the new prime minister… If Boris Johnson achieved Brexit, she wants to achieve something entirely different – the end of the world.” its weirdly gratifying to me that its more and more a matter of general acceptance that market capitalism is a cult-like ideology and its adherents follow moral and speculative tenets rather than evidence or experience This last point was reiterated by European Commission vice-president Maros Sefcovic, who has been leading the Brussels side in talks on implementing the Brexit arrangements. French leader Emmanuel Macron responded by tweeting, in English, his congratulations to the new prime minister on Monday night. Since becoming foreign secretary last year, China's state-owned media have called her “a radical populist” and described her China-related speeches as “crazy”, said The Guardian.He also wrote history books, including a critical book about empire, as well as acquiring a Daily Telegraph column at the height of Blairism in 1997. Among his musings was an entire column on the "nipple count" of FHM magazine, how it was read by ABC1s and not a "lumpen proletariat", and how laddishness had become a "symptom of the success of material culture". All the other major economies in the G7, including France and Germany, recovered strongly enough to be larger than they were in February 2020... Ishaan Tharoor in The Washington Post wrote: “It seems Truss’s defining attribute may be a certain brand of political opportunism,” adding that she “will struggle to muster Johnson’s irrepressible – or delusional, critics would contend – optimism”. Quote from: Blinder Data on October 19, 2022, 03:14:26 PMI'm beginning to think an early election is likely. Of course it would be just like the Tories to somehow cling on until the last possible moment, but even if they agree a new leader within the next few months, they will need to agree on the government's programme. You can empathise with someones struggle with depression without condoning someones behaviour. You had depression, you recognised the pain it causes, if you recognise that pain in others including Gullis you are empathising. Thinking he should feel self-disgust for his behaviour is not in contradiction to this.

As she's grilled about her new job, she suddenly seems distracted as she grabs for her mobile phone. Ishaan Tharoor in The Washington Post wrote: “It seems Truss’s defining attribute may be a certain brand of political opportunism,” adding that she “will struggle to muster Johnson’s irrepressible – or delusional, critics would contend – optimism”. Disgraced, but going away? -Boris Johnson As we have seen, the price of a weathervane is very affordable, although of course, this is relative. A tendency to arrogance – but also undoubted cleverness – is a common theme that many people who have worked with the new chancellor seem to report. This was the case even among fellow Tories, before he angered them with his politically and economically explosive mini-budget.

I suspect it is about damage limitations in the first situation if someone can reduce Labours lead by 10 or more pts that is a lot of MPs that still have their jobs even if the Tories lose overall. Then there is also the fact that Labour need to be ahead by about 13 pts of to over tun the boundary changes so if the polls are more like 20 pts to labour then there is only 7pts in it to create a hung parliament.