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This is a link post See you in Strasbourg
Could be the most undignified post-Downing Street career yet. And there's years of it to come
(, Thu 9 Jan 2025, 11:10, Reply)
This is a normal post .
"I am appalled by the attacks on free speech in Britain and Europe. We can't be truly free without free speech." - Liz Truss, 13 August 2024
(, Thu 9 Jan 2025, 12:14, Reply)
This is a normal post I don't think free speech means you can say anything you want
Unless you're Elon Musk of course.
Maybe the definition of free speech has changed, but I hope it's not going to get to the point where libel and slander laws are abandoned.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2025, 18:07, Reply)
This is a normal post Unless it's true
like it is in this case
(, Fri 10 Jan 2025, 0:05, Reply)
This is a normal post I would love to see this come to court.
She is certain to lose. Political opinions are pretty much the textbook example of public interest. That is the lettuce of the law.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2025, 14:08, Reply)
This is a normal post All it has done is reveal that she's really upset by it

(, Thu 9 Jan 2025, 14:37, Reply)
This is a normal post We live in a time of emotionally inadequate narcissists.
I was watching this as you posted, Muscovites' response is like an angry 13 yr old.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=syGKhF3DcuI
(, Thu 9 Jan 2025, 14:18, Reply)
This is a normal post So you're going to sue a former QC for speech protected by parliamentary privilege?
Good luck with that.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2025, 14:44, Reply)
This is a normal post Did he say it outside of parliament house?
(I dont know if that's relevant)
(, Thu 9 Jan 2025, 14:54, Reply)
This is a normal post He did and it is. Parliamentary privilege only applies to what is said in the two chambers.
Bringing a case is still laughably Truss-like though.
Phillips probably could sue Elmo for his recent comments but politicians tend not to sue for libel.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2025, 15:54, Reply)
This is a normal post Yeah, fair comment.
Which is ironically also Starmer's defence.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2025, 17:12, Reply)
This is a normal post It's almost as though she's stupid.
Can't be true though as we'd never have "elected" a stupid PM.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2025, 15:04, Reply)
This is a normal post I genuinely believe she has a learning disability.
Look at her. Listen to her. Watch her trying to walk. Look at the problem she has with doors/thresholds. Note she has no idea about reading a room, social cues, social norms, etc.

I feel sorry for her in that she lacks the capacity to understand how daft she is. She lacks the capacity to understand when she's being exploited, in this case by her lawyers. If she has an agent or publicist, they must have the same learning disability she does, or or they're deliberately destroying her for some reason.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2025, 15:46, Reply)
This is a normal post Dr BRB for president!

(, Thu 9 Jan 2025, 16:19, Reply)
This is a normal post Lord Protector, please.

(, Thu 9 Jan 2025, 17:09, Reply)
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Always assumed you were a religious fundie.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2025, 19:46, Reply)
This is a normal post Just constitutionally coherent.
Keeping that title might persuade the forelock tugging third of the population that the United Commonwealth of Great Britain (and the North of Ireland) is still a magical kingdom of exceptionalism.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2025, 19:58, Reply)
This is a normal post It's her poor parents I feel sorry for
Fucking hell, imagine it
(, Thu 9 Jan 2025, 16:12, Reply)
This is a normal post Both lefties, apparently.
www.leeds-live.co.uk/news/leeds-news/liz-truss-leeds-university-dad-25188869
(, Thu 9 Jan 2025, 17:26, Reply)
This is a normal post The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
I mean wasn’t she a card-carrying Lib Dem republican when she was younger?
(, Mon 13 Jan 2025, 18:43, Reply)
This is a normal post This is her life now
Forever arguing black was white with 70 million people, most of whom saw exactly what happened and suffered the consequences.

Like some sort of tragic greek myth. A politician in Tartarus
(, Thu 9 Jan 2025, 16:10, Reply)
This is a normal post To be fair, she's picked the right point in history to give it a try.
She's bound to pick up a few million credulous followers, especially abroad.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2025, 16:25, Reply)
This is a normal post In other news...
Suella Braverman said she had visited a "land border" between Italy and Turkey to see a wall built to keep out migrants.
(, Thu 9 Jan 2025, 18:31, Reply)
This is a normal post So... Greece?

(, Thu 9 Jan 2025, 19:21, Reply)
This is a normal post I think you vastly over-estimate the intelligence and memory of people

(, Thu 9 Jan 2025, 20:34, Reply)
This is a normal post I think it would be fading from the national memory a bit of she didn't keep reminding everyone

(, Thu 9 Jan 2025, 21:16, Reply)
This is a normal post All I really remember is the lettuce thing.
That's her legacy.
(, Fri 10 Jan 2025, 10:18, Reply)
This is a normal post There isn't anything else to remember

(, Fri 10 Jan 2025, 11:47, Reply)
This is a normal post Who's paying for the lawyers? Peter Thiel?

(, Thu 9 Jan 2025, 18:40, Reply)
This is a normal post Here's the thing...
Her lawyers say Starmer has "damaged her reputation".

You might as well try to damage the Crystal Palace. You'd think someone would have had the balls to say "that ship has sailed, love". (In fact, I guarantee someone HAS said that to her, perhaps in slightly different terms, but she's just too fucking narcissistic and, frankly, thick to understand. She is living proof that Merton College Oxford accepts barely-functional morons. If I worked at that place I'd be working hard to find a way to rescind her degree.)
(, Thu 9 Jan 2025, 19:56, Reply)
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Big tits though
(, Thu 9 Jan 2025, 22:42, Reply)
This is a normal post Nowhere near big enough to compensate for the mentalism.

(, Fri 10 Jan 2025, 12:59, Reply)
This is a normal post 100% this
to get anywhere with a libel case you have to PROVE that someone's comments have caused you reputational damage. It's fucking hard at the best of times - Musk calling a rescue diver a paedo is a case in point.

There was so much press coverage at the time deriding her "crashing the economy" that this case is a joke. In fact, it's providing some welcome cover to Reeves at a time when there's a lot of heat on her for long-term borrowing costs.

Truss surely is the gift that keeps giving to Labour.
(, Fri 10 Jan 2025, 10:45, Reply)
This is a normal post Still nothing compared to when Kemi opens her mouth.

(, Fri 10 Jan 2025, 16:10, Reply)