Liz Truss’s time is up

[Sue]

Open blue-on-blue warfare:

Imagine Truss thinking you're shit...

 

[bluescreen]

Tbh, the Saj has a few more brain cells than the animatronic gerbil...

 

[Humberto]

Some actual gerbils do too tbf.

 

[bluescreen]

Oh dear how sad never mind

from the Staggers
Liz Truss already faces “a pile” of letters of no confidence
The 1922 Committee is ready to suspend the rule that prevents a vote to oust the Conservative leader within a year of taking office.
By Harry Lambert

archive.ph

 

[Calamity1971]

Oh dear how sad never mind

from the Staggers
Liz Truss already faces “a pile” of letters of no confidence
The 1922 Committee is ready to suspend the rule that prevents a vote to oust the Conservative leader within a year of taking office.
By Harry Lambert

archive.ph

Wonder what time Brady is back of his hols tomorrow ?

 

[Lurdan]

Very entertaining pot stirring articles by hacks in the Sunday Times:

Truss is the latest victim of a never-ending Tory death cult (archived)
by Caroline Wheeler, political editor, and Harry Yorke, deputy political editor.

This is the article referred to above, in which a No 10 source is quoted as briefing that Sajid Javid is shit, in the course of denying that he had been the first to be approached about replacing Kwarteng as Chancellor, but had demanded too high a price. There are a lot of other zingers in the article:

Truss appears to have anticipated that calls for her removal would only grow after Kwarteng’s sacking. Within minutes of the prime minister’s disastrous eight-minute press conference on Friday afternoon, Thérèse Coffey, the deputy prime minister and health secretary, held a phone call with dozens of ministers in an attempt to shore up Truss’s support. Looking “very upset”, according to one person on the call, Coffey acknowledged that the government had gone “too far and too fast” in the mini-budget but insisted that despite the severe setbacks No 10 remained determined to prove wrong the “flipping” Office for Budget Responsibility. (...)

At one point Coffey made a reference to a “ferret in the trousers” and the fact that once “the ferret is out’’ the disruption and market volatility would end. It was unclear to those listening in whether the ferret she referred to was the mini-budget, or Kwarteng.

Party boy Rishi Sunak still wants to be prime minister (archived)
by Tim Shipman, chief political commentator.

It is a point made vocally by Johnson’s cheerleaders and by Downing Street, which this weekend tried to place blame for the plotting squarely at Sunak’s door. A Downing Street source said: “The people who plotted against one PM are now trying to get rid of another. They do not care about our economic prosperity or the markets or the situation in Ukraine. They know who they are. The world should know who they are: Julian Smith, Gavin Williamson, Simon Hoare, Mel Stride. This is a vendetta-driven plot to re-run the leadership election because they don’t like the fact that they lost to a woman. It’s a public-school takedown. They don’t care about anything except their own careers. It is time the plotters thought about who they work for: it is the British people.”

 

[Kaka Tim]

I think she's done. Gone by the end of the week. She seems utterly friendless - I think that press conference sealed her fate. Hunt has been imposed on her and hes just doing damage limitation until Sunak slides into post.

 

[two sheds]

But ... but ... but ... what about the pork markets? And the cheese?

 

[Smokeandsteam]

I think she's done. Gone by the end of the week. She seems utterly friendless - I think that press conference sealed her fate. Hunt has been imposed on her and hes just doing damage limitation until Sunak slides into post.

Whether or not Hunt was forced on her, the wider point is that she’s dumped her ally and friend and the economic principles on which she campaigned on. So her ‘principles’ were clearly just the latest political convenience for Truss’ ambition. The only honourable route for Truss was to resign and in doing so stand by her friend and their shared politics.

Can’t see Sunak. Too divisive. It’ll be some nonentity like Ben Wallace who the Tory party seems to rate for mysterious reasons

 

[steveseagull]

all going so well...

 

[Karl Masks]

if Hunt wasn't her choice, does it then follow that she wanted to keep Kwarteng?

 

[Karl Masks]

all going so well...

Let's interview someone who fundamentally and openly can't answer the question. But instead let's have him on because he can further trash Liztruss.

Tories are strange. When you're a voter, tories seem strange.

 

[two sheds]

Let's interview someone who fundamentally and openly can't answer the question. But instead let's have him on because he can further trash Liztruss.

Tories are strange. When you're a voter, tories seem strange.

How dare he trash our lovely prime minister like that on air? We shouldn't be criticizing our conservative colleagues

 

[LDC]

all going so well...

One of the scrolling bits underneath that interview said a Tory MP had called the government 'libertarian jihadists'.

 

[Karl Masks]

How dare he trash our lovely prime minister like that on air? We shouldn't be criticizing our conservative colleagues

Careful now, it's sunday morning

 

[LDC]

At this point looks like we could just give them all knives and clubs, let them loose on each other and then the PM could be the last one left alive.

 

[ruffneck23]

I guess this is going to go on for the next 2 years whilst they all have a go at being PM.

 

[two sheds]

Careful now, it's sunday morning

indeed, I wonder how many people are now thinking she called him 'cunt'.

 

[emanymton]

At this point looks like we could just give them all knives and clubs, let them loose on each other and then the PM could be the last one left alive.

Although hopefully they will have been mortally wounded in the process.

 

[Gerry1time]

But ... but ... but ... what about the pork markets?

She’s already opened them up hasn’t she?

 

[teqniq]

Doubtless if he fucks off it will be to protect his wealth but don't let the door hit your arse on the way out:

Sir Rocco Forte threatens to quit Britain over Truss's tax U-turn

 

[Smangus]

Doubtless if he fucks off it will be to protect his wealth but don't let the door hit your arse on the way out:

Sir Rocco Forte threatens to quit Britain over Truss's tax U-turn

I am quaking in my slippers at this almighty threat to my future

 

[Rob Ray]

The Graun, Mirror, Times and Sun front pages make an interesting tableau today, it's all gone a bit reverse Game of Thrones really hasn't it. "If you're having to deny you're the one really in charge you're definitely the one really in charge."

 

[Rob Ray]

Probably too kind on Jeremy this (in the Tony Soprano role)...

 

[Dom Traynor]

Wait is Graham Brady Paulie?

 

[Rob Ray]

With Biden as Carmine Lupertazzi: "They're just a glorified crew"

 

[pseudonarcissus]

Whether or not Hunt was forced on her, the wider point is that she’s dumped her ally and friend and the economic principles on which she campaigned on. So her ‘principles’ were clearly just the latest political convenience for Truss’ ambition.

bloody Marxist

 

[teqniq]

Hahaha. Conservative home, no less. How much longer can she last?

It's all over for Truss | Conservative Home

She may continue in office and even win the next election. But Trussonomics, and the prospectus on which she contested the leadership election, is over.

conservativehome.com

 

[Nine Bob Note]

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Probably too kind on Jeremy this (in the Tony Soprano role)...

Boris and Doris as Uncle June and Livia

 

[Artaxerxes]

Hang in there Liz, I believe in you