Liz Truss’s time is up

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She is stuffed for Christmas.

 

[bimble]

What is the idea they’re going to just give the job to sunak or someone after making the country sit through months and months of that ridiculous performance of a leadership election? Idk, think that might be even more damaging than leaving her in place.

 

[killer b]

There are no undamaging options for them.

 

[billy_bob]

so does Theresa May and she makes a shitload from the after dinner circuit so I guess they don't really care about how interesting you sound.

TBH I think the audiences for that kind of thing prefer someone dull-sounding - the younger ones are busy getting hammered and the older ones are ready for a nap.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Team Truss might just be able to swing her survival until 2025 if they blackmail the country by putting all its cash reserves on long odds

 

[killer b]

TBH I think the audiences for that kind of thing prefer someone dull-sounding - the younger ones are busy getting hammered and the older ones are ready for a nap.

shame for Kwarteng then, sounds like it would have been the ideal gig for him. Sadly a top tier political career that consists of crashing your country's economy then getting sacked in the space of a couple of weeks isn't the kind of record that will have the bookings rolling in.

 

[brogdale]

 

[Lord Camomile]

What is the idea they’re going to just give the job to sunak or someone after making the country sit through months and months of that ridiculous performance of a leadership election? Idk, think that might be even more damaging than leaving her in place.

That may be exactly the line they use.

"The country doesn't want more uncertainty", he was the next candidate in the vote, etc, etc...

 

[cupid_stunt]

She is stuffed for Christmas.

She's certainly a turkey.

 

[Lord Camomile]

Team Truss might just be able to swing her survival until 2025 if they blackmail the country by putting all its cash reserves on long odds

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There's some joke about shorting the careers of Kwarteng and Truss here, but I don't know politics or economics well enough to make it work.

Of course, neither did they.

 

[steveo87]

Team Truss might just be able to swing her survival until 2025 if they blackmail the country by putting all its cash reserves on long odds

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I'm not great with odds, so to simplify, how much would I get back from a tenner on each one?

 

[littlebabyjesus]

What is the idea they’re going to just give the job to sunak or someone after making the country sit through months and months of that ridiculous performance of a leadership election? Idk, think that might be even more damaging than leaving her in place.

No chance of another leadership contest. It would need to be a coronation like they did with May. I guess that could take a bit of time to organise but they've done the first bit by getting Cunt in as chancellor. Truss's position is now untenable.

 

[elbows]

Some fun quotes.

Ms Truss's statement has intensified speculation about her future, with some Tory MPs sharing their thoughts with the BBC."She will have to resign," said one senior backbencher said, adding "she is worse than Corbyn", referring to the former Labour leader.

A former cabinet minister said "we cannot go on like this indefinitely", adding the "electorate are not going to forgive us" if Tory MPs oust another prime minister.

One of her supporters said "that was the worst press conference I have seen in a decade and a half". Another MP, who voted for Ms Truss in the leadership election, said "I had my hands over my eyes" during the speech.

One Scottish Tory MP said the statement made former PM Theresa May's "worst speech look like the Gettysburg Address", referring to a famous speech delivered by President Abraham Lincoln.

This is difficult, Liz Truss admits after major U-turn

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www.bbc.co.uk

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I'm not great with odds, so to simplify, how much would I get back from a tenner on each one?

If you can still get that 8/11 on this year, those look like good value to me. Odds will be changing by the minute, though.

If you put a tenner on at 8/11, you'd win £7.27.

 

[xenon]

Monday is too soon I think. Maybe a week or so.

I'm gonna call it. She wont' go before mid nov(after the budget report thing) and if survives til Christmas, is there for the next year at least.

 

[moochedit]

(Hunt is obviously the direct-to-DVD rip-off version)

Lets hope he meets the same end

 

[brogdale]

Sadness in her eyes

Can't deny that this cheered my mood:

 

[Supine]

 

[Lord Camomile]

"it is now widely accepted that <insert action taken by Truss> made things worse"

 

[bimble]

No chance of another leadership contest. It would need to be a coronation like they did with May. I guess that could take a bit of time to organise but they've done the first bit by getting Cunt in as chancellor. Truss's position is now untenable.

Oh yeah I know we’re not getting a leadership contest (not a publicly visible one anyway). But I think they might just leave her there as a shit-sponge until a bit nearer to election time and only then bury her. Untenable means nothing anymore.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Oh yeah I know we’re not getting a leadership contest (not a publicly visible one anyway). But I think they might just leave her there as a shit-sponge until a bit nearer to election time and only then bury her. Untenable means nothing anymore.

We'll see. I often call this stuff wrongly, but it feels like momentum is building. Hence I think she'll go on Monday.

 

[steveo87]

If you can still get that 8/11 on this year, those look like good value to me. Odds will be changing by the minute, though.

If you put a tenner on at 8/11, you'd win £7.27.

Ah so my hastily thought up, and deeply ironic, plan to get out of the cost of living crisis is flawed? I see...

 

[Duncan2]

Oh yeah I know we’re not getting a leadership contest (not a publicly visible one anyway). But I think they might just leave her there as a shit-sponge until a bit nearer to election time and only then bury her. Untenable means nothing anymore.

As Faisal Islam said earlier she has sacked the Chancellor she herself chose just three weeks ago and sacked him for agreeing with her.Plainly she has got to go the only question is why she hasn't already resigned. Maybe as Bimble suggests they won't let her resign?

 

[steveo87]

"it is now widely accepted that <insert action taken by Truss> made things worse"

38 days, by the way.

 

[bimble]

‘Clearly she has got to go’ just means nothing at all though, does it. Saying things like that it’s just archaic like you think integrity or competence or just not being a total disaster are somehow expected of the PM don’t be daft.

 

[emanymton]

now we are officially a banana republic, when does the military take over ?

They couldn't do any fucking worse.

 

[Gerry1time]

Isn’t the usual thing to allow MPs to spend a weekend ‘taking soundings in their constituency’? That way they can claim the decision is based on feedback from members. Which it rarely is.

So Monday could be a thing.

 

[Duncan2]

‘Clearly she has got to go’ just means nothing at all though, does it. Saying things like that are just archaic like you think integrity or competence or just not being a total disaster are somehow expected of the PM don’t be daft.

If that is in reply to me I obviously wouldn't be expecting integrity noone expects that from any member of that party but her credibility is utterly and irrevocably shot.

 

[bimble]

Yeah you’re right they will need to get rid, she’s too embarrassing, that press conference must have felt humiliating for all of them.

 

[emanymton]

Personal I don't think she will go anytime soon. But it will be hilarious if the Leadership contest lasted longer than her stint as PM.