Liz Truss’s time is up

[8ball]

"Pretending we haven't made mistakes, carrying on as if everyone can't see that we have made them, and hoping that things will magically come right is not serious politics. I have made a mistake; I accept responsibility; I resign."

Ouch

It's quite elegantly done tbf.

 

[Duncan2]

"I have made a mistake,I accept responsibility,I resign"- she missed out the "I am evil" bit

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Ok so this is more the kind of thing I was expecting today.

 

[WhyLikeThis]

It doesn't seem like a massive and irrecoverable mistake, really.
Was it that the knives were out she wanted to stick in a couple of her own?

She would have been thoroughly inducted on security protocols seeing as she’s essentially in charge of the UK’s security. If she shared a classified doc via WhatsApp or some shitty gmail account on her phone it was a conscious decision. Probably based in her thinking the rules she applies to others do not constrain her. If any other civil servant mishandled classified info they would expect to be given the boot too. Fuck her.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Grant Shapps - FFS. Every time I think the current bunch of wankers can’t get any worse they pull another clueless fucktard out of their never ending box of dildo-heads. I suppose at least if he is forced to resign, Michael Green can jump straight in to take over.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

She would have been thoroughly inducted on security protocols seeing as she’s essentially in charge of the UK’s security. If she shared a classified doc via WhatsApp or some shitty gmail account on her phone it was a conscious decision. Probably based in her thinking the rules she applies to others do not constrain her. If any other civil servant mishandled classified info they would expect to be given the boot too. Fuck her.

Hmmm. It just sounds like the kind of thing governments do all the time. Leaking shit.

She's chosen this as the excuse to resign with, surely, in order to write that resignation letter.

 

[8ball]

She would have been thoroughly inducted on security protocols seeing as she’s essentially in charge of the UK’s security. If she shared a classified doc via WhatsApp or some shitty gmail account on her phone it was a conscious decision. Probably based in her thinking the rules she applies to others do not constrain her. If any other civil servant mishandled classified info they would expect to be given the boot too. Fuck her.

Oh, it wasn't really sympathy, just that there would be other machinations in play.
It's not like she tried to contract ferrying services from a pretend company that had copied and pasted its T&Cs from a pizza shop.

I bet far worse happens pretty much daily.

 

[steveseagull]

She has made tonight's vote a vote on confidence....

Meanwhile...

 

[8ball]

Hmmm. It just sounds like the kind of thing governments do all the time. Leaking shit.

She's chosen this as the excuse to resign with, surely, in order to write that resignation letter.

V. much my thoughts too.

 

[WhyLikeThis]

Hmmm. It just sounds like the kind of thing governments do all the time. Leaking shit.

She's chosen this as the excuse to resign with, surely, in order to write that resignation letter.

Sounds just as likely like she was grassed up.

I can’t imagine even chinless Hunt being impressed with her performance in Parliament yesterday. Not exactly exuding rational competence.

 

[steveseagull]

and another... this is a three line whip so she will have to sack them. she could lose her majority this evening

 

[prunus]

She has made tonight's vote a vote on confidence....

Meanwhile...

More of this please!

 

[littlebabyjesus]

The Tories seem much better at opposing Truss than Labour.

 

[Duncan2]

General Election incoming.

 

[prunus]

and another... this is a three line whip so she will have to sack them. she could lose her majority this evening

Thanks, that was quick!

 

[steveseagull]

If she does not sack them, that is it. Her authority gone. If she does (and if there are enough of them) her majority has gone and that is it.

Vote at 7pm

popcorn

 

[cupid_stunt]

The Tories seem much better at opposing Truss than Labour.

TBF, I think that's Labour's thinking, why go on the attack, better off sitting back and letting the Tory party do the job for you.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

TBF, I think that's Labour's thinking, why go on the attack, better off sitting back and letting the Tory party do the job for you.

Yes, the 'it would be rude to interrupt' line. I guess it has some merit.

 

[kebabking]

The ERG apparently think Braverman was stitched up over immigration - a couple of the political hacks reckon the loons might rebel tonight...

Quality stuff.

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

She's going to lose the fracking/confidence vote, isn't she?

It's all not quite as funny as the clown car resignations of Johnson's Comedy Wednesday, but entertaining none the less. Truss has to resign before the end of the day or government falls and it's GE time...

 

[Lord Camomile]

 

[ska invita]

It's like business as usual all of a sudden.

...apart from the polls

 

[LDC]

Bunch of crack addled ferrets in a sack.

 

[steveseagull]

And another...

 

[Duncan2]

Truss revealing previously unsuspected depths of doomed

 

[ItStillWontWork]

Brave bet

Tomorrow morning then

 

[cupid_stunt]

Well, at least she has united both wings of the party.

Against her.

 

[steveseagull]

Seems she was sacked for a security breach which would have acclimations on the markets. And she is pissed off about getting sacked so have left screaming.

 

[two sheds]

Are Hunt and Truss not even bothering to talk to each other about policy? Truss says she'll keep the pensions triple lock, Hunt says it might be scrapped then Truss stamps her foot and says it'll be kept.

 

[WhyLikeThis]

Sounds just as likely like she was grassed up.

As suspected: