Sweet cheeses, please don’t say Ludicrous Liz will be next PM

IT’S incredible to think that Liz Truss, who is now looking more and more likely to be the next British prime minister, has generated her support from a ludicrous electorate consisting of Conservative party members.

She has achieved this by telling prodigious porkies about Brexit, along with enormous untruths apropos to trade deals that she has signed.

Truss has used a duplicitous stratagem of stating that the stuff that the citizens of the UK should be more concerned about is the amount of cheese that Britain imports from France. Yes – I did say cheese! These are all diversionary tactics as she strives to make herself more and more relevant in the eyes of the Tory party membership.

I have to say that I am rather baffled how these two Conservative leadership candidates, Truss and Rishi Sunak, have given the impression the UK is somehow in a great place. This notion that all is well on the UK home front is being pedalled in a rather nuanced way by these two aspirants.

Risibly, all this is happening during a UK cost of living crisis allied to the resignation of a prime minister who has admitted to meeting a Russian spy while he was the UK foreign secretary.

Boris Johnson went on to have a knees-up with this former KGB operative. This spy has been sanctioned in Canada and it’s reported he is still part of Putin’s inner circle.

I find it somewhat unbelievable that Truss has not uttered a single word about the Lebedev affair. Her response is about cheese imports.

One couldn’t make this up and if one thought Boris would be some act to follow, one fears that Truss may be a replication of same. All I say is: Perish the thought! JOHN O’BRIEN,

Co. Tipperary.

Teddy said it best

FURTHER to the recently published short letter from Robert Sullivan predicting Boris Johnson may, at some time in the future, be re-elected as leader of the Tory Party, or possibly even UK prime minister, I wholeheartedly agree with this quote from Theodore Roosevelt, which sums up the current sorry state of world politics, and public services in general:

‘It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

‘The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.’ ALAN WHITEHEAD,

Carrigaline.

Truss me, it’s a new Don

INTERESTING that Liz Truss should pledge, as she did as a sop to a Leeds husting this week, that she’d run the UK like Don Revie.

Perhaps she should have done her homework as Maggie certainly would have done. For Don Revie was arguably the worst

England soccer manager on record.

Not only did they fail to qualify for anything during his short tenure due to his utterly inept team selections, he was also quite happy to take Saudi money and not report it to the FA.

Or, perhaps this is just an accurate description of what her tenure as PM actually promises?

NICK ADAMS, Co. Clare.