news & politics:discussion

[SheffJeff]

How much do ex-prime minister earn?  I think it's over 100 hundred grand a year for life... maybe she's not as daft as we think.

[Guest]

Liz Truss has resigned!

[Kurosagi]

Shortest serving PM ever...

[FloorFiller]

All hail the lettuce!

[Guest]

Ahahaha the Tories are such jokes. 

[Kurosagi]

So...how many more tory PMs will there now be before the next GE?

[Justiceforcedave]

1 week leadership contest?

[Kurosagi]

The tories are sooooo divided I can't see how there can be any candidate that would command unity.

[Neil]

5 minutes ago, Crazyfool01 said:

Bring on the next c**t 

The previous c**t most probably

[lost]

Think it was Hope of the telegraph who claimed Rishi was a done deal. Also Mordaunt to replace Cleverly.

[zahidf]

[sime]

General. Election. Now!

"We can't go on like this..." 

[Kurosagi]

Thought it was pretty bizarre in her resignation speech where she tried to justify that her 'mandate' from the tory members trumped the mandate from the GE manifesto.

[squirrelarmy]

Liz Truss outlasted by a lettuce. 

[Guest]

Sky News have said that her resignation was only confirmed after the last 24 hours. Nothing has been agreed. 

[phimill]

I dont get why she was smirking throughout - like she was thinking "ha i just managed to be PM for a month!" 

Biggest show of how bullshitting an interview can completely back fire!!

[maelzoid]

Is this all part of a ploy to keep proportional representation out of the hands of the electorate? The tories tried it and they ended up with the lowest common denominator,  a leader none of them actually wanted.

[Crazyfool01]

The £ looks strong and stable at present 

[efcfanwirral]

Nothing to celebrate. All this does is give a mandate to Sunak for more austerity to appease "the markets" who apparently run the country. 

[Kurosagi]

Does that mean that all those tories who abstained last night are now off the hook and won't lose the whip?

[maelzoid]

44 days. The same time that David Blaine was in that box.

[Crazyfool01]

3 minutes ago, efcfanwirral said:

Nothing to celebrate. All this does is give a mandate to Sunak for more austerity to appease "the markets" who apparently run the country. 

It’s destroying the tories so yeah there is … unfortunately we have that as a consequence . No more of a mandate than Truss 

Edited October 20, 2022 by Crazyfool01

[Kurosagi]

2 minutes ago, efcfanwirral said:

Nothing to celebrate. All this does is give a mandate to Sunak for more austerity to appease "the markets" who apparently run the country. 

He can try but it won't wash, all those one nation tories have been falling over themselves to talk about compassion...because they know that Austerity 2.0 isn't exactly a vote winner.

[Zoo Music Girl]

24 minutes ago, Kurosagi said:

She looks...happy.

Relief I guess! Kwarteng looked pretty happy after he was sacked too.

So what now? Got to be Rishi?

[Zoo Music Girl]

Just now, Zoo Music Girl said:

Relief I guess! Kwarteng looked pretty happy after he was sacked too.

So what now? Got to be Rishi?

I mean it should be a GE but I'm asking more what will happen than should.