The First Of Many U Turns?

[Redhelen72]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11072011/Liz-Truss-wages-war-Whitehall-waste-including-vows-cut-pay-holiday-civil-servants.html

[Ken4155]

I said on TTT's "...wins it for Truss' thread that she's getting some practice in ready for when she gets the job.

[Peter Pedant]

After lying Boris....
no one will notice
or will they even mind
or
will they say - that is not a whopper ! ( settle down sqad) Boris cd do much better - just by lying there ! ( geddit )

[Peter Pedant]

Ken I dont blame you for recyclint your best one liners

I think Dickens said only 67% of his novels were 'new'. anyway a dickens of a lot of them

[davebro]

I'm surprised these nutty ideas are being given any credence / press coverage when they are only aiming to sway the Tory party members voting.

[Untitled]

It’s the tories… u-turns are their signature move!

[Gromit]

// Abandoning a plan less than 24 hours after announcing it does not show much resolve.
Truss has been schooled by her time with Johnson. He was a master at introducing a policy without thinking it through, and then having to make a U-turn. Looks like more of the same of that whoever wins. //

[jno]

Trussites were very snooty about Sunak's rather slower change of course; I wonder what their excuse is this time. But I think we can abandon the idea that either of them is the new Thatcher. Boris with better hair, both of them.

[weecalf]

Wondering ,when mp are up in front of select committees and they don’t have the answer at hand and say they will write to the afore mentioned committee does the public get to know what they has been written in answer only asking for a friend .

[anneasquith]

It’s car crash politics, she’ll be away within 2years . Anger has to be at labour for not electing a better leader of the party than KD .

[Gromit]

// Anger has to be at labour for not electing a better leader of the party than KD //

Their best candidate couldn’t stand because he is not currently an MP. Labour could do with rectifying that PDQ.

[anneasquith]

I think we have agreed with that before Gromit .

[THECORBYLOON]

'"I don't want people to be concerned, so I'm being very clear, we will not be going ahead with the regional pay board...I'm being honest that there were concerns expressed," she added.

"I believe my policy was being misinterpreted, I want to be clear with the public, that I will not be going ahead with the regional pay boards. I'm somebody who is honest and up front and I do what I say I will do and I'm being clear I will not be doing that."'

If the proposal were being misinterpreted, would it not have been simpler to clarify the intentions instead of performing a screeching u-turn?

It's good to know she'll do what she says she will do, unless she completely changes her mind less than twenty-four hour later...

[jno]

who knows what we'll read in the monring, TCL. I forget - has she stated her position on returning to imperial measurements? I may need to panic-buy some one-inch Fahrenheits.

[FatticusInch]

Just further proof of how inept she and her party are. They’ve been at it for the last 12 years, one might think they’re fairly well drilled by now and ‘in-touch’.
Evidently not, it’ll be all change at the GE.

[ichkeria]

Like I said before, some if not all of these promises are best ignored. This one was so bad it didn’t even make it to declaration day

[THECORBYLOON]

The press release embargoed until 10:30 last night included, "Her government will also set about reigning in public sector leave entitlements, bringing them back in line with those available to private sector workers. By scrapping legacy Privilege Days and capping the median holiday allowance for public sector workers to 25 days, at least £2 billion a year will be saved."

The statement went on to explain the current median figure for public sector workers is twenty-seven days compared to twenty-five for other workers.

This means she planned a reduction of two days' leave each year.

What puzzles me is that folk would be paid whether they were in work or on leave so I am struggling to see how a billion pounds would be saved each year for every day knocked off annual leave.

[THECORBYLOON]

From tonight's leadership programme on Sky,

'Breaking

Sophie Morris

Political reporter @itssophiemorris

Thursday 4 August 2022 21:25, UK

Why you can trust Sky News

Liz Truss has refused a Conservative Party member's request for her to apologise for proposing to link public sector pay to local living costs - reiterating that the policy was "misrepresented".

Conservative Party member Tom from Gateshead, participating in Sky News' The Battle for Number 10, asked the foreign secretary and Tory leadership frontrunner to apologise for initially planning to introduce a policy which was "actually quite offensive".

Ms Truss refused to do this, repeating that the media had "misrepresented" the proposal and that she is "not going ahead with this policy because of the concerns that have been expressed".

Asked by presenter Kay Burley how she reached the £8.8bn figure if the policy was "misinterpreted", the foreign secretary admitted: "I don't have the details."'

Others have "mis-represented" her plan yet it's not been costed in so much detail that she can mind on how the savings figure was reached?

Did she not think she would be questioned about the U-turn?

[anneasquith]

She is clueless it would seem. Someone must be telling her she is capable of the job as PM.
If sunak was white would he leading in the polls ?

[douglas9401]

There is no real answer to the constituent's question because Truss shot from the hip and hit her foot. She played to the gallery imagining that her charisma would see her through, although that charisma exists only in her mind.

Still, more of the same from the blues for a grateful nation.