BBC: "The PM will find it difficult to survive"

[brooklynite]

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[PortTack]

1. She said she admired Thatcher not long after being appointed PM

The Brits would do well to sack her and the sooner the better if she intends to follow in thatcher’s footsteps. It took them more than a decade to recover from the iron lady’s rule

[brooklynite]

2. She's NOT following in Thatcher's footstep...

You may not like Thatcher's record, but she was PM for close to 10 years and won three straight elections. Truss is following far less thoughtful policy advice.

[maxrandb]

3. Exactly! Truss became PM of Britain in much the same way Donnie Dipshit became President

Without a majority of the British people.

[Demsrule86]

4. She is Trump in a skirt...little better spoken and for the record Thatcher was a disaster for

the UK in the end...just as Reagan was a disaster.

[PortTack]

5. True, but the Iron Lady smashed unions and left the country in financial ruin

[brooklynite]

6. I'm not arguing about the merits of her policies; I'm arguing about the stability of them

Truss ran the markets and national pension funds into the ground in three weeks. Thatcher was never that unstable.

[OnDoutside]

7. She'll still get her portrait on the wall of No 10, plus all the trappings of being a former PM.

[brooklynite]

8. What "trappings" are there?

Especially if you lasted only a month as PM? Will people be waiting for her memoirs?

[OnDoutside]

9. As a former Prime Minister, she will continue to receive to police protection and a free large

Jaguar or similar, with a designated driver. She'll also continue to receive her salary as an MP, but in due course she will get a seat in the House of Lords by being made a Dame, a job for life. On top of that, even as shit as she is, being a former PM will open doors (probably RW Libertarian ones) to earn more money. It will be a relatively soft landing for her.

[brooklynite]

13. She will likely NOT last long in Parliament...

After crashing and burning, she won't hang around long as a backbencher, and a future Tory PM won't have much interest in giving her a life peerage.

[roamer65]

10. Either a general election or PM Sunak is coming.

[JI7]

12. What difference does it make ? Are there policy differences

?