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Liz Truss sends legal letter ordering Starmer to stop saying she crashed economy

www.theguardian.com

Liz Truss has sent a legal letter to Keir Starmer demanding he stops making “false and defamatory” claims that she crashed the economy.
The former prime minister sent a six-page “cease and desist” letter accusing Starmer of harming her reputation and contributing to her losing her South West Norfolk seat in the general election.

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accusing Starmer of harming her reputation and contributing to her losing her South West Norfolk seat in the general election.
I too hate it when I'm faced with the consequences of my actions.
- Isn't that the point of trash talking your political opponent?
C&D sounds like a good way to scare someone who was wasn't previously a Barrister, Bencher, Director of Public Prosecutions, and didn't have a knighthood for services to law and criminal justice.
- Imagine how good Keir Starmer's lawyer must be lol.
- Yeah, yeah, he knows some legal mumbo jumbo but the Truster is powered by an idiotic self-belief.
- Defamation laws in the UK are a bit silly though.
  
  How so?
He should just mail her back an expired head of lettuce.
- I still think of that pretty regularly and I live in the shit show that is America.
  Makes me chuckle every single time.
- I was actually thinking he should send her a wilted salad.
Is that the Liz Truss that crashed the economy, or the Liz Truss that deliberately crashed the economy so her fucking posh boy crony cunts could capitalise on it?
- Why not both?
She really is the git that keeps on giving.
- git
  Fitting.
  
  I thought so.
- Lettuce never forget.
contributing to her losing her South West Norfolk seat in the general election.
Political opponent says political opponents is bad at job and someone else should have it. Sighting evidence
Sigh why can't these fuckwits just go away like their constituents asked
- Sighting evidence
  *Citing
  
  Thank you. Tried 4 tines to get it to look right. Got bored and had to go back to work
She clearly was accountable for tanking the economy, but has no other reasonable defence.
Well, to be fair it wasn't just her. Kwasi Kwarteng helped too!
- Didn't he just do what she campaigned on? They were her policies.
  
  He is still responsible though. His entire job is that he probably vets economic policy, he can advise against doing something and if he doesn't like it he can resign. If he's just going to do whatever the prime minister tells him, then what the hell is the point in his job?
  
  They were his policies, too. Both signed off on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannia_Unchained .
Then maybe she shouldn’t have crashed the economy.
- You crash one economy....
She really is a fucking muppet
I'd love to see legal action over this; "No, it's not defamatory - it's a matter of record. Jog on."
- It's purely about making the government waste money.
  Or more specifically, making the government hesitate to allow lettuce to force them to waste taxpayers' money in court. She knows full well what ever answer is returned. Looks bad to a large % of voters.
  If kier is smart. He will stand up in parliament and state that. Something like.
  " She is desperate to make a name for herself, having bankrupted the UK. Either by her own reclass economic actions or by forcing the government to fight expensive libel suits, she has no chance of winning.
  So the answer is simple. From now on, I will only address her undeniable economic stupidity in parliament. Where the courts have no jurisdiction over the claims of politicians.
  If she wants to silence the truth. She will need to convince one of you MPs to stand up for her proven stupid economic lettuce rot. And risk your seats on the claims as she did."
  But more eloquently.
  
  But more eloquently.
  So maybe something like: "She can shove her cease and desist up her arse and fuck off while she's doing it!"?
  
  As much as I’m not a fan of Starmer (Changes his mind too much and he’s a red Tory), he does have a mature way of dealing with these people. Look at how he handles Musk.
- I'd love it to go to court and backfire so that it becomes illegal to trash talk your opponent. It'd kind of fuck up all political discourse but it would super fuck the Tories since that's all they do.
  
  In the sky news report about this they basically said just that.
  The case cannot happen because a victory for her essentially would require the courts to interfere with politics, and they can't do that.
- It's the very definition of a frivolous lawsuit. It won't see the inside of a courtroom except to get kicked out again.
  This isn't the US you can't just sue for whatever random thing you want you actually have to have a case.
Shouldn't have crashed the economy then
She is one of the few people I would shout at if I saw her out and about. She should be in prison.
- Would, you call her:
  a) cunt!
  b) bitch!
  c) lettuce!
  
  Somehow I feel like lettuce is the biggest insult in the uk
As PM she was the First Lord Of The Treasury (amongst the many other titles she got as a PM: Queen of the Andals and the First Men, Lady of the Seven Kingdoms, and Protector of the Realm) so how is she not responsible for the economy?
Of all the people to send an unenforceable cease and desist letter to LMAO
I'd think the ex Barrister, Queens Counsel (basically a group of exceptionally talented senior lawyers) lawyer, and ex director of public prosecutions for the CPS would be someone you'd think hm, I probably can't intimidate him in this manner. Truss never ceases to amaze me.
My mind can't even begin to imagine how good Starmer's legal defence team would be.
Of all PMs, he is surely the one you'd be insane to enter a legal battle with.
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