This will be juicy.
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Its hard to know because for sure I don't think they would want another leadership contest so the question is then is there anybody the party could unite behind to appoint leader uncontested?
Hard to imagine Boris not challenging if they selected anybody but him but also hard to imagine the public suddenly forgetting the last year or so
His ego is big enough that he will back himself to win in 2024.
Oddly the pound strengthened shortly after 9.
There's two reasons that this is unlikely imo. Firstly, Boris might win. He would definitely win among Tory members, and if he stood but didn't get on the final poll because of MP votes, there'd be pandemonium. Secondly, five Prime Ministers in six years would hardly look any less chaotic than what's happening now under Truss. Their only hope now is that the economy grows.
If someone has to go, it'll be Kwarteng, with all of the blame piled on top of him.
Yes i think thats true (and i think he would at least do less bad than truss will)
Will he go before or after the November budget ... but yeah if your nickname is now kamikwasi then basically your done its just a matter if when not if
But this policy isn't from Kwarteng or Truss - it's a continuation of the fantasy Brexit dream of the ERG, Minford and co.. This is the final throw of the dice - Truss is the vacuous mouthpiece and maybe Kwarteng is the fall guy.
How is anyone going to have the faith to invest in the UK?
Really don't know where they go from here.
Truss advisers right now
Reality is worse, Truss wasn't even being interviewed by Paxman. I assume she did local radio in the first place because she thought she'd get an easy ride, instead she got destroyed by a bunch of regional radio presenters. I guess its fair to say she'll also be turning down the Andrew Neill interview come the next general election.
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Can't remember a situation where the central bank are buy back bonds while increasing rates. Pretty sure Bailey will not be inviting Truss and Kwasi for Christmas.
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Almost reminded me of that guy the BBC News accidently interviewed some years ago. Equally as unqualified
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True but US treasuries are getting a bit close to illiquidity thresholds for comfort. Might not be the last time we see it.
I've done him bad there he's far more confident that Truss was today
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this one is fairy juicy
yougov
23-25 september
Labour ..............45%
Conservative.....28%
Libs......................9%
Green...................7%
SNP......................4%
Reform................3%
plaid....................1%
Others.................2%
17 point lead
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politic...voting-intention-con-28-lab-45-23-25-sep-2022
There should be a rule in place that if a governing party are so shit they have to keep changing leaders it should automatically trigger a general election.
Otherwise they can just no confidence her before a GE and get someone more stable in. This way they can't just keep swapping.
Otherwise they can just no confidence her before a GE and get someone more stable in. This way they can't just keep swapping.
There is a path here, that's not improbable, where Truss is forced to call a GE to save her skin. With this sort of polling, even with shy Tory syndrome, it should be a comfortable Labour win.
It’s utterly ridiculous that she’s been made PM by a vote amongst 0.002% of the population.
The older I get the more I realise the world is just basically blatantly wrong things happening whilst nobody does anything about it.
Pretty much.
Why would she, or any Tory, call an election before they're forced to considering the current situation?
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That was brutal
You're in deep shit when the BBC are making Maguire-esque compilations about you and you're the PM.
I think the only way she calls an election early is if she thinks the party will move against her
At which point she might as well roll the dice on an election and hope labour do something to shoot themselves in the foot (let Corbyn stand for example)
This. 100% this.
I actually reckon it’s plausible they’ve done this on purpose for her to take the fall and will then implement a more press savvy leader to ‘change the narrative’ and win the next GE - as with May and Johnson.
The Tories are VERY good at playing the British public and getting voted back in repeatedly - and Truss is TOO bad.
the plan was for boris to own the blame and truss to swoop in as saviour and win the next GE... the plan is not going well
But it’s years ‘til the next GE.
They’ll saddle her with this Budget, as with Brexit and May, then they’ll play the narrative that the Tories have ‘ousted her due to her awful leadership’ and they’ll put some more PR savvy ghoul like… say… Rees Mogg in who’ll win the next GE using some crude variation of toxic Nationalism and Xenophobia and usher in the next stage of the now trademark ‘we didn’t think it could get any worse but they managed it’ dystopian soap opera that British politics have become.
I would hardly call JRM PR savvy. You only have to look at the way he dresses. Like an overgrown schoolboy.
And he makes no bones about the fact that he thinks that he is oh so much more clever than everyone else.
The guy is a throwback to the Victorian era when they used to send little boys up to clean the chimneys.
He is a typical Tory Toff.
Yes indeed.
I think they'll force her into an election personally. There's more chance of them winning now than in a years time and plenty want a long career in politics.
The markets would surely react well to an election being announced and it gives the Tories a chance to try reset their pitch.
The alternative will be a bigger loss and more lasting damage.
It may have been an illusion for Boris, but for many towns in the North who remained under Labour control, who are now like 'ghost towns' with shopping malls half empty, no proper high street and no new industry startups in over twenty/thirty years, except such as coffee bars and nail bars, etc. that last a year.... maybe only six months, then shut down. These towns need major new investment. Many towns have been living on scraps, either from so called regeneration projects or some were EU funded, but in many cases, it wasn't local industry that got the contracts or the benefit of actually doing the work.
Here's an example of what I mean, where I live there were two EU special projects 5th and 6th (in 2007-8 and in 2010) on a list put forward by the local council and with support from the local chamber of commerce that were accepted for EU funding. They involved work in a local park building a kid's playground and improving the gardens/access in two old folk's homes. The total value was around 15000 euros, the local Labour council let both contracts to companies from outside the area. So, although local children and elderly folk eventually saw the benefit, local industry didn't.
'Levelling up' is required and Labour needs to do it properly.