like the queen this thread will never die: in which we ALL resign (ourselves to disgusting miseries to post-boris politics 2022)

Lots of local BBC radio presenters out there to make a name for themselves.

Radio Kent leads off with, "Are you ashamed for what you have done?"

— Chris Brooke (@chrisbrooke) September 29, 2022

well kirsty wark certainly isn’t going to ask that! i love it.

That is excruciating, I require my Tory PM to at least be able to lie with the necessary level of bare-faced arrogance

Did Liz Truss just say on Radio Leeds the maximum anyone will pay for energy bills is £2,500? I thought that *wasn’t* how the cap worked? (That’s just the average price when the unit cost gets capped.)

— Kit / Chris (@kitlochery) September 29, 2022

correct - she doesn't know how it works

the people if Leeds can play that quote to their energy provider when they are about to get their gas cut off

what I don't know about it is: what is average consumption? Well actually I don't want to know what average consumption is or get a smartmeter. Because then I'll never turn the central heating on or make an oven baked recipe until at least half way through 2023!

it's been fun seeing the real Liz Truss reveal herself after that Queen planting week gave her a bit of an easy start.

Guess this is the guy who advised Truss to go on local radio with hungry BBC interviewers.

Liz Truss's Director of Communications, Jason Stein, used to work as Communications Adviser for Prince Andrew until the Maitlis interview https://t.co/9jHuOPYNKF

— Alexander Clarkson (@APHClarkson) September 29, 2022

lol he thought these local yokels wouldn't ask any questions

Paul Mason thought they were going to be Alan Partridge! Truss would've probably found more deference in the Today programme.

“Where’ve yer bin?” Excellent start from @BBCLeeds pic.twitter.com/Vg05mOUzD4

— Dino Sofos (@dinosofos) September 29, 2022

I guess eight different radio bin-crash mini-interviews in an hour is a kind of levelling up

Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss. That graph is plummeting faster than the pound.

Dino's really doing a public service with these. Would have been nice to see the official BBC accounts doing this!

Sweet lord. The PM is literally lost for words on BBC Stoke when questioned about mortgages. pic.twitter.com/BGCv0RfMBR

— Dino Sofos (@dinosofos) September 29, 2022

thankfully we have similarly acute and perspicacious journalists working at a national level for the BBC, and let's not forget the gentlemen of the press too, reporting without fear or favour on the goings on of our rulers

has anyone considered she's enjoying the humiliation?

are you suggesting she doesn't mind being tied up by aggressive adversaries?

Hmm, tricky one for a media strategist- interview on Today with a client presenter whose deference can be absolutely relied upon, or ten interviews with local radio djs trying to make a nae for themselves

name

what a day for Mason to soil himself on the bus again

Regular fountain of knowledge that guy

Johnson was bad enough, but this complete denial of reality on their part is reminiscent of ... I don't know... Vladimir Putin!

“What about the sea life deaths?”
Truss completely blanks - I'll have to look into that

— Kevin Marks (@kevinmarks) September 29, 2022

FFS has she even heard 'Earth Song'?

if Putin talked about making Pie's bigger then it would actually make more sense.

How it began / How it's going pic.twitter.com/N0Hoc7Pq5c

— End Times and Motion Man (@MarkedAsRed) September 29, 2022

I’m honestly beginning to think maybe you lot are right & I would do a better job 🤦🏻‍♀️

— Liz Trussell (@Liztruss) September 28, 2022

who should play up front for england? tough one, i think i'd have to say the best of the england https://t.co/2UGRSOk0Bt

— Stan Account (@tristandross) September 29, 2022

lol

Don’t want to defend the guy but he’s an Arsenal season ticket holder, ofc he’s not going to say “oh yeah Kane great!”

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Fvjk47UORFs/maxresdefault.jpg

Cannot wait..

Have just checked and at the end of her programme last weekend @bbclaurak trailed the PM’s appearance on her show this Sunday morning. Assuming that’s 100%, it should be a very big moment. Today’s regional round was tough, this one should be forensic.

— Rob Burley (@RobBurl) September 29, 2022

oooh it's one of the "big hitters" turn to forensically grill her, as Mason would have it. Or something else that rhymes with that

india eyeing up the uk and pulling out a secret folder marked "east anglia company"

— mutable joe (@mutablejoe) September 28, 2022

the only way to get those lazy English dogs working is applying the boot to the spleen - it's the only language these savages understand

Matthew Lesh, head of public policy at the Institute of Economic Affairs.

Yes. pic.twitter.com/DNAjGiCT9q

— Matthew Lesh (@matthewlesh) September 23, 2022

lol how is this guy so bad

It's OPERATION ROLLING PARTRIDGE!!! Liz Truss is going to hit BBC •local radio• stations this morning where a bunch of sleep-deprived non-expert presenters will throw her soft questions, while she dodges the heavy hitters. (h/t @politico ) pic.twitter.com/fTmlD6FPRC

— Paul Mason (@paulmasonnews) September 29, 2022

💊💊💊

like i used to give the guy credit for at least knowing a little about how the sausage is made despite being a loon but he really doesn't know that, and now i wonder if he ever did

I don't think he understands sausage-making correctly from a Marxist viewpoint. Actually he's more than just a spice addled clown who is always wrong, he's also a security state collaborator/arselicker/full-time snitch.

Here is an Ex-Corbyn advisor who isn't selling themselves.

"As encouraging as it is to hear public ownership back in Labour’s lexicon, GBE falls far short of what the public and the planet need."

Lecturer in economics and former head of economic policy for Labour on Starmer's #Lab22 GBE policy announcement: https://t.co/ogr7DbTIWS

— LabourList (@LabourList) September 29, 2022

GB Energy is the most nu-Labourish load of cobblers imaginable

The Queen is alive btw

Westminster voting intention:

LAB: 54% (+9)
CON: 21% (-7)
LDEM: 7% (-2)
GRN: 6% (-1)

via @YouGov, 28 - 29 Sep
Chgs. w/ 25 Sephttps://t.co/QFziTkP77K

— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) September 29, 2022

Twenty points ahead Twitter maintaining a respectful silence in awe of how badly the tories have to fuck it

truss reckons the freefall on friday is due to a "global crisis".

Putin's war in Ukraine, to be precise.

although when you actually hear what she says she doesn't join the two, that was a bit of editorialising. 'there is a global crisis caused by war in ukraine' and the pound bit is a later question.

My bus was 10 minutes late this evening because of Putin's war in Ukraine.

I heard it was Stalin'

Never surrender!

Any other leader would be 40 points ahead, against this Tory government as they destroy people's mortgages and pensions by the day. WIth a heavy heart, Sir Keir Starmer must resign. It is every citizen's final duty to go into the recycling tanks and become one with all the people https://t.co/ulaVSrkNJj

— the uk press cover for serial groper nick cohen (@wariotifo) September 29, 2022

Lool I was waiting for 40 p-ts ahead being the new 20. Kieth is knocking it out the park! but tbf the park has shrunk a lot this week. It's just a little square plot of grass now and the ball has sadly trundled to the edge of it.