Liz Truss’s time is up

[Lord Camomile]

Yes it’s mirth but it’s so utterly fucking tragic.

Aye, tbh have to call myself on this sometimes.

I crack wise as it's my default instinct, and partly out of gallows humour, but whether they're out for each other or out for the most vulnerable and under threat of the public, it's devastating for millions of people either way

 

[Gerry1time]

Sky is reporting that Truss just sacked the chief whip in the lobby, hence the reaction, 'I am no longer the chip whip'.

 

[brogdale]

Sky is reporting that Truss just sacked the chief whip in the lobby, hence the reaction, 'I am no longer the chip whip'.

Incitatus time?

 

[Lord Camomile]

Shame he doesn't know how to use the video function on his phone.

Still images can be judiciously selected, too much risk that a video might capture something he doesn't want to share.

 

[maomao]

So did the SNP only pull out of the vote when it stopped being a confidence vote? That would explain the kerfuffle over an easy government win.

 

[steveseagull]

 

[killer b]

So did the SNP only pull out of the vote when it stopped being a confidence vote? That would explain the kerfuffle over an easy government win.

The SNP didn't pull out, loads of them in this list of who voted how: How did your MP vote on the fracking motion?

 

[steveo87]

I had my booster today so I'm not sure if wierd hallucinations is a side effect, cos today is very odd.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

The SNP didn't pull out, loads of them in this list of who voted how: How did your MP vote on the fracking motion?

So zero Tories voting for. Some rebellion.

 

[Bingoman]

Message for the PM please go and see the King tomorrow and ask for an Election because this cant carry on

 

[SpookyFrank]

Honestly you look away from the news for two hours and somehow half the government has quit, been fired or jumped into the Thames in despair; and everyone left standing is one spilled pint away from a mass brawl.

 

[Bingoman]

I had my booster today so I'm not sure if wierd hallucinations is a side effect, cos today is very odd.

It been an weird day for the Government all round

 

[Lord Camomile]

So zero Tories voting for. Some rebellion.

Tbf, they were being kettled by their colleagues.

 

[Cid]

On a quick scan something like 28 Labour MPs missed it.

 

[Ax^]

Shapps trying to play down the chaos in west minister

 

[littlebabyjesus]

On a quick scan something like 28 Labour MPs missed it.

They have that pairing thing, don't they? some/most will be paired off?

 

[SpookyFrank]

Message for the PM please go and see the King tomorrow and ask for an Election because this cant carry on

Brenda gets 75 years of calm parliamentary waters* and poor Brian lasts barely a whole fortnight without a constitutional crisis.

*barring that one time her nonce uncle, nonce cousin and nonce father-in-law (who were all coincidentally the same person) tried to stage a coup against Harold Wilson.

 

[agricola]

Message for the PM please go and see the King tomorrow and ask for an Election because this cant carry on

TBF I wouldn't be that surprised if the Crown stepped in anyway - this can't be allowed to continue and it is extremely questionable whether she commands a majority of the Commons.

The King could dismiss her, then appoint whoever from that lot he is advised could form a government.

 

[killer b]

So zero Tories voting for. Some rebellion.

got to wonder what all the fuss was about tbh

 

[littlebabyjesus]

TBF I wouldn't be that surprised if the Crown stepped in anyway - this can't be allowed to continue and it is extremely questionable whether she commands a majority of the Commons.

The King could dismiss her, then appoint whoever from that lot he is advised could form a government.

I would be very surprised. Dangerous for a monarch, let alone a new monarch, to interfere in parliamentary business.

 

[elbows]

It been an weird day for the Government all round

Frack Wednesday for the tories.

 

[killer b]

it is extremely questionable whether she commands a majority of the Commons.

the government just won a vote by 93

 

[steveo87]

Well in, Krishnan!!!

 

[bluescreen]

I would be very surprised. Dangerous for a monarch, let alone a new monarch, to interfere in parliamentary business.

Yes, I was going to say that would provoke a constitutional crisis, but aren't we in one already?

 

[Cid]

They have that pairing thing, don't they? some/most will be paired off?

Don't think they usually use that in important votes?

 

[Cloo]

Is there anything that could actually plausibly cause a general election now? Mass resignation of Tory MPs? (Highly unlikely) Could a no confidence vote do it?

 

[Artaxerxes]

The constitution isn't worth the paper it's printed on.

 

[bluescreen]

Don't think they usually use that in important votes?

Was the vote that important before it was deemed a 3 line whip earlier today? And then it wasn't...

 

[killer b]

Is there anything that could actually plausibly cause a general election now? Mass resignation of Tory MPs? (Highly unlikely) Could a no confidence vote do it?

as has just been demonstrated, a no confidence vote would be handily won by the government

 

[Lord Camomile]

Newspaper editors probably tearing their hair out trying to decide what to do with their front page.

Wouldn't be surprised if some just go with a blank space captioned with "You tell us!"