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)
.
"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)
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.
(
tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Thu 9 Jan 2025, 18:07,
Reply)
Unless it's true
like it is in this case
(
My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Fri 10 Jan 2025, 0:05,
Reply)
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)
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
(
FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Thu 9 Jan 2025, 14:18,
Reply)
So you're going to sue a former QC for speech protected by parliamentary privilege?
Good luck with that.
(
wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Thu 9 Jan 2025, 14:44,
Reply)
Did he say it outside of parliament house?
(I dont know if that's relevant)
(, Thu 9 Jan 2025, 14:54, Reply)
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.
(
jonbob loves you, Thu 9 Jan 2025, 15:54,
Reply)
Yeah, fair comment.
Which is ironically also Starmer's defence.
(
wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Thu 9 Jan 2025, 17:12,
Reply)
It's almost as though she's stupid.
Can't be true though as we'd never have "elected" a stupid PM.
(
Cactus 1 doesn't care what you think on, Thu 9 Jan 2025, 15:04,
Reply)
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.
(
brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Thu 9 Jan 2025, 15:46,
Reply)
Lord Protector, please.
(
brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Thu 9 Jan 2025, 17:09,
Reply)
Always assumed you were a religious fundie.
(
evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Thu 9 Jan 2025, 19:46,
Reply)
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.
(
brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Thu 9 Jan 2025, 19:58,
Reply)
Both lefties, apparently.
www.leeds-live.co.uk/news/leeds-news/liz-truss-leeds-university-dad-25188869
(
brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Thu 9 Jan 2025, 17:26,
Reply)
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
I mean wasn’t she a card-carrying Lib Dem republican when she was younger?
(
jonbob loves you, Mon 13 Jan 2025, 18:43,
Reply)
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)
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)
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)
I think you vastly over-estimate the intelligence and memory of people
(, Thu 9 Jan 2025, 20:34, Reply)
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)
All I really remember is the lettuce thing.
That's her legacy.
(
Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Fri 10 Jan 2025, 10:18,
Reply)
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)
Nowhere near big enough to compensate for the mentalism.
(
FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Fri 10 Jan 2025, 12:59,
Reply)
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.
(
garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Fri 10 Jan 2025, 10:45,
Reply)