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.
She really is a fucking muppet
She is one of the few people I would shout at if I saw her out and about. She should be in prison.
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.
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.
Yeah, yeah, he knows some legal mumbo jumbo but the Truster is powered by an idiotic self-belief.
Imagine how good Keir Starmer’s lawyer must be lol.
Defamation laws in the UK are a bit silly though.
How so?
They are treated, effectively, as guilty until proven innocent.
This gives a bit of a false impression. Specifically, it is for the defendant to show that a defamatory statement is substantially true, rather than the complainant/plaintiff to show it is false. This is essentially because truth is a defence against defamation in the same way self-defence is a defence against assault.
Essentially, the complainant must prove that:
- the defendant made a defamatory statement (i.e. a statement of a fact that - if true - would harm your reputation),
- you suffered a material loss as a result of harm to your reputation, and
- it was the defendant’s statement that was the cause.
The defendant may argue in defence that:
- it was substantially true,
- they honestly believed it was true and had a reasonably good reason for doing so, and/or
- it was in the public interest to say so.
The burden of proof is still “on the balance of probability” rather than “beyond reasonable doubt” in each case.
This kind of makes a little bit of sense though, right? If I tell the world that you like to put your thumb in your bum and then sniff it, you’d probably feel it should be on me to provide evidence rather than on you to prove that you’ve literally never done that in your life.
We are definitely lacking in anti-SLAPP legislation, but then so are many states.
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.
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?
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 clearly was accountable for tanking the economy, but has no other reasonable defence.
Lettuce never forget.
She really is the git that keeps on giving.
git
Fitting.
I thought so.
Wasn’t sure as it’s jsust one character.
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
Yeah, but you can see it too.
Thank you. Tried 4 tines to get it to look right. Got bored and had to go back to work
Every time I have to write an email that advises to resync the files. I always spell it resink at first and then I can never remember the correct spelling.
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.
They were his policies, too. Both signed off on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannia_Unchained .
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?
Then maybe she shouldn’t have crashed the economy.
You crash one economy…
