If Liz Truss was a CEO, would she be allowed to keep her job?

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Any employee in the UK may be dismissed for negligence, so why is our PM still in post? (Reuters)

Can you imagine Unilever or Vodafone appointing a chair or chief executive who replaced the board with their mates, and then adopted extreme, untested policies against the advice of experts, while refusing to allow auditors access to the accounts?

Then, when the share price crashed as predicted, he or she sacked the finance director, and the replacement took complete control of the company and reversed all the policy changes, but had to take even more draconian measures because of the turmoil created by their predecessor.

But the shareholders left the chair or chief executive in place, even though they had been responsible for the failed policies and were absolutely emasculated by the new finance director. I don’t think so.

Tim Sidaway

Hertfordshire

Errors on a grand scale

Any employee in the UK may be dismissed for negligence, so why is our PM still in post, after ignoring all those available to her with the relevant skills and experience?

In my opinion, it is her propensity for making errors on such a grand scale that should disqualify her, and for which her attempts to rectify matters provide no mitigation.

David Rhodes

Nottingham

Growth is not what we need

Forgive my ignorance – I’m not an economist, just a simple soul trying to make sense of the world. And I’m completely bewildered by what seems to be a general agreement that economic growth is feasible and desirable.

I can see that an impoverished developing country would benefit from growth. But the UK, in spite of recent events, isn’t in that category. There are poor people, and they should be supported. But there are also many of us who are not poor, and not a few others who are, frankly, disgracefully rich.

Economic growth involves the production, acquisition and transport of yet more stuff, and is therefore a driver of environmental damage. Societies that are less unequal are also less unhappy. What we need is stability and redistribution of wealth, not overall growth.

Susan Alexander

South Gloucestershire

Trick or treat

I have this suggestion for Liz Truss: confound everyone by calling a snap general election. Surprise! Trick or treat!

That way you can dump all the mess on Labour, which is what most of the public now wants anyway. And it holds no embarrassing resignation or dethronement or slow descent into irrelevance alongside Jeremy Hunt for you.

It’s a win-win, and let’s face it, after 12 years, your colleagues are all out of ideas.

Ian Henderson

Norwich

Where are the opposition parties?

As we witness, with each passing day, the gradual, almost inevitable, collapse of the UK economy into a hole being feverishly hollowed out by a government in complete disarray I am struck by the total absence of the other political parties’ views on the matter.

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We know that Keir Starmer has issued a statement demanding a general election. But given the perilous state of the country and a government seriously and perhaps terminally weakened by its incessant infighting, shouldn’t he and his party – and indeed many of the other parties in opposition be shouting from the rooftops and demanding that democracy be let back in the room.

Is it because the opposition parties feel that the Tories are doing enough on their own to hasten their demise? Or is it because the chalice has become so toxic that nobody wants to grasp it? The country is not dead, but it is very ill.

It will take even those gifted with great wisdom, courage of conviction and long-term vision (do they exist?) many years to restore the nation to anything close to its former standing in the world.

J Wells

Alresford