Liz Truss has been banging on about growing a pie again – 18 showstopping reactions
Liz Truss has made her keynote speech to conference and it was warmly received in the hall. It’s a bit like saying “Little Tommy completed his finger-painting and his mother thinks he’s an artistic prodigy.”
The energy and response in the hall is so falsely delirious and brittle. Like they'd just seen the Messiah, rather than a floundering politician deliver a mediocre speech.
Rees-Mogg afterwards: "I don't think we are divided. The response was overwhelming."
They're in trouble.
— Alex Andreou (@sturdyAlex) October 5, 2022
Liz Truss’s speech, a summary:
‘When I was growing up & the Tories were in power, things were bad, and things have been bad these last years, when the Tories have been in power’
— Toby Earle 🇺🇦 (@TobyonTV) October 5, 2022
Big queues for Liz Truss’s conference speech, as hundreds of people slept through the night following Thérèse Coffey’s.
— Have I Got News For You (@haveigotnews) October 5, 2022
She rolled out one of her favourite – and most baffling – phrases.
"We need to grow the pie so that everyone gets a bigger slice"
PM Liz Truss says the UK economy hasn't grown "for too long" https://t.co/F0kS35QKEk pic.twitter.com/CTxOLDL0cS
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) October 5, 2022
Paul Hollywood wasn’t available for comment, but the PM won’t be getting a handshake from these people.
1.
What grows faster, pies or concrete?
— James Oh Brien (@mrjamesob) October 5, 2022
2.
YOU CAN'T GROW PIES.
— Jay Rayner (@jayrayner1) October 5, 2022
3.
Lunch soon. Might grow a pie.
— Danny Wallace (@dannywallace) October 5, 2022
4.
Liz Truss again saying she wants to "grow the pie", you can't grow a pie Liz. If it was possible I would have a whole field of them
— dave ❄️ 🥕 🧻 (@davemacladd) October 5, 2022
5.
we are in our fourth week of a prime minister who thinks you can grow pies
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) October 5, 2022
6.
Liz Truss back to saying 'we need to grow the pie'. Does she have a magic pie tree? Is she making No.10 aides bury crumbs from Greggs in the garden?
— Tiernan Douieb (@TiernanDouieb) October 5, 2022
7.
Grow the pie pic.twitter.com/2AMloe2JFA
— HappyToast ★ (@IamHappyToast) October 5, 2022
8.
If it was possible to grow a pie I would have been living off the land a long time ago
— Liam Thorp (@LiamThorpECHO) October 5, 2022
9.
Somewhere over the rainbow/Grow a pie.
— Gary Bainbridge (@Gary_Bainbridge) October 5, 2022