Liz Truss spent £15,000 of taxpayer money on catering during Australia flight
British taxpayers forced to hand out over £1,400 per head for 12 government officials on single trip
French Revolution 2 wen?
Not a defence of her or the shitty situation, but she isn’t in government, and this predates her time as Prime Minister.
There is something quite beautiful about the British culture of keeping a stiff upper lip, but sometimes you should let it go a little bit and riot. It's cathartic.
Brit and avid history fan here! Stiff upper lip is a myth. We used to be a very rebelious lot:
We're taught about Henry VIII, but not about the mass uprising he had to put down (The Pilgrimage of Grace)
We hear about the Battle of Hastings but not the Harrying of the North.
We're never taught about the Enclosure Acts (that stole land from the common folk) and the subsequent uprising and brutal repression (including the Midlands Revolt).
We also had the Peasants Revolt trying to stop the crazy taxation during the 100 year war!
And if we're looking for other acts of rebellion:
The Peterloo Massacre
The General Strike of 1926
The Miner's Strikes of the 80s
The Battle of Cable Street (Police protecting Nazis)
The Battle of Lewisham (Police protecting Nazis)
But it is far, far better for those in power to make us believe we have always been meek and "stiff upper lip"
EDIT: for people looking for a complete list, this ain't it. I just chose a few that were in my mind at the time. I also didn't include anything to do with imposed rule or I'd just gesture vaguely at the island of Ireland.
I also didn't include anything to do with aristocrats fighting each other. This is an incomplete list of popular uprisings to make a point.
It's really easy to spend other people's money.
But they need to cut the NHS budget because "we" put too much stuff on the country's credit card.
Politicians will never care for the working class if they don't have a median income imposed upon them.
What a nonsense idea. Good politicians will never exist if they have a median income imposed on them.
Do you think that qualified, capable people - doctors, lawyers, economists, engineers - are going to want to go into politics, and deal with all the pressure, attention and abuse for them and their families that comes with that, for a median income? The sort of people we should want to see more of in politics typically already take large pay cuts to become backbench MPs. We want more capable and intelligent people in politics, not fewer.
You pay peanuts and you get Truss.
How is it peanuts for Truss when she spent 1 400+ pounds a flight on food per person?
The rich never cared for you. The richer a person gets, the more they exploit the working class. They will never care for you when your income doesn't impact them (unless it's positively as it does now, so they can profit off of you being your landlords etc).
Greed dulls anyone's wits.
Do you think that qualified, capable people - doctors, lawyers, economists, engineers
This is a fallacy. You're thinking of jobs that earn a lot of money and supposing those people might be good at running a country but that's not really how it works.
Someone who is a specialist in one area will have spent years studying that area but that doesn't mean they know anything about other areas at all or have good judgement. For an MP you want more of an all rounder, someone who has general knowledge but is prepared to listen to experts along with their constituents. You want someone humble enough to realise when they don't know enough and someone willing to find out.
She could be Midas and still find a way to piss it all away
She announced she is stepping down as well today. Good riddance
Theresa May is stepping down. Liz Truss sadly remains although we’ll see what the general election brings.
If her constituents vote for her again then they need to check for lead in the water.
Oh that's just disappointing boo ruining Friday
that's a lot of lettuce
This is the best summary I could come up with:
As revealed in a freedom of information response to the Labour Party, British taxpayers paid more than £1,400 per head for 12 government officials on a single trip to Australia.
A spokesperson for Ms Truss told The Independent: “Liz had many responsibilities as foreign secretary, but it ought to be self-evident that organising the in-flight catering on overseas trips was not among them.”
The Mail on Sunday reported last year that Ms Truss was contesting a £12,000 government bill relating to her use of the grace-and-favour country house at the Chevening estate that she had access to as foreign secretary.
Leaked correspondence, revealed by The Sunday Times, disclosed that Ms Truss in 2022 had requested taxpayers’ cash for a £3,000 lunch at a private club owned by a Tory donor, overruling her officials’ advice to go somewhere more suitable.
The freedom of information data released on Thursday also showed the in-flight catering bill for Ms Truss’ predecessor Dominic Raab came to £6,215 during a trip to Indonesia and Brunei in April 2021, and £7,625 for a visit to Singapore, Vietnam and Cambodia in June of that year.
A government spokesperson said: “The figures shown represent the end-to-end cost of providing in-flight catering, including transport, on-boarding/off-boarding, preparation, disposal in line with adherence to international waste management regulations, and the required equipment for these processes.
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