A petition to ask for a general election:
https://petition.parliament.uk/signatures/128823704/signed
Fun ahead on climate change… (and the constitution)…
https://twitter.com/gabriel_pogrund/status/1576262658403143680?s=21
A petition to ask for a general election:
https://twitter.com/LizTruss_MP/status/1576248011252203520
Fun ahead on climate change… (and the constitution)…
It takes a special kind of stupid to witness temps of 40° this summer and not think the climate emergency isn't a top priority
does the electorate have to take yet another PM based on the PP’s machinations and then the membership? Just asking for what people think really…
I asked pretty much the same thing on one of these threads the other day. Surely there’s a point where it becomes a case of constitutional integrity ( if such a thing exists anymore)to just keep swapping leaders and the different policies that come with them?
It’s never me who brings him up
On this occasion it is though, because it’s looking like she is actually the Tory Jeremy Corbyn equivalent.
You don't bring up Corbyn except for when you bring him up. Gotcha.
Trailmonkey. No constitutional reason why not.
Whats needed is tory mps to act in the interests of the country but fat chance of that. Snouts in th trough andcself interested. None will risk a GE and losing their seats
This made me chuckle
https://twitter.com/RoryStewartUK/status/1576174269012144130?t=1S0_ptMMx9_ku0ue6KhGpw&s=19
It’s never me who brings him up
On this occasion it is though
I don’t think you know what never means.
I asked pretty much the same thing on one of these threads the other day. Surely there’s a point where it becomes a case of constitutional integrity
Nope. Its part of the problem of having a constitution which is a mishmash of various laws and conventions dating back to when the cost of running a state and fighting your inbred relatives got high enough that the commoners had to be given a bit of say in return for taxes.
Its a tricky one though. Since if a new leader did automatically trigger a new election then mps would be far less likely to kick a bad one out since chances are the bad pm would have already put some of the mps jobs at risk.
I think the presidental model separated from the MPs does have something going for it.
Rory Stewart reckons she might have ADHD
Tory MPs are apparently getting threats from the whips to force them to attend their own party conference as they’re all making their excuses
I’m sure they’ll be made to applaud her insane ‘Pork Markets’ style ramblings too.
But this is definitely nothing like Putins Russia
There is a lot of sense in what Rory Stewart is saying there, though I don't agree with all of it. Worth watching too as it's about much more than Lizzy.👍
Something light… saw this clip on Channel4 news… he looked as if he knew that ultimately this is his turf…
https://twitter.com/alexpamnani/status/1576165976143327232?s=21
On Kuenssberg right now - probably should move anything you can throw away from arms reach
It takes a special kind of stupid to witness temps of 40° this summer and not think the climate emergency isn’t a top priority
I’m sure liz and co can rise to that challenge.
Just think of the opportunities in oil,gas and fracking to generate that leccy required for the aircon units we are going to be sold.
Not the car crash I expected (hoped for) - she was quite well drilled and came across 'OK'. But well drilled in avoiding giving any answers or substance. A non-apology - not that the mini-budget was wrong or needs reversing, rather that they should have briefed better beforehand. And clear avoidance of answering anything about cutting spending, matching benefits to inflation, etc. (it'll all be revealed in 6 weeks) which either means they're away finding other means to fund these tax cuts, or the cuts are coming. Or that they don't actually have a plan.
[edit - just read Gove's post interview comments. I wonder is there is a rebellion coming that would force a reversal]
Re the clip outside no10- she looks like Windy Miller waving outside his windmill
I always thought Truss was a little unbalanced but her interview on Tory Kuennsberg's show have proved she's actually a total melt.
Can only be a Labour agent.
Make no mistake, those tax cuts will be paid for by crippling austerity
Its all about removing state aid and wealth redistribution to the very wealthy.
Looks like Gove is setting himself up to lead the rebellion against Truss, clearly wanting too add another political assassination to his CV
https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1576495462789644288?s=21&t=cic3mvSq-NbcFADR8DcZJQ
Downing Street has said any MP who voted against Kamikwaai’s insane budget will lose the whip.
Looks like another purge is in the offing, on top of Borises ejection of anyone remotely sane.
The Tory party is just going to be a rump of unhinged, far right, libertarian fruitloops, which I suppose was inevitable given the direction of travel since 2016
The Tory party is just going to be a rump of unhinged, far right, libertarian fruitloops
Which makes them incredibly dangerous to society
But this was always inevitable. What Truss is trying to do was and is the whole point of Brexit. It was a coup by the far right disaster capitalists
These policies were always a case of when, not if. We were always going to end up here, post-Brexit
But it looks like enough people are realising what they were conned into voting for, with a slick and well-funded campaign of misinformation by powerful vested interests
They certainly didn’t vote for this. Nobody did. Well… 81,000 Tory members did, I suppose
What we’re seeing now is the whole thing falling apart under the weight of its own lies, contradictions and fantasy economics
This article by Will Hutton in today’s Observer is bang on
https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1576482693969223680?s=21&t=cic3mvSq-NbcFADR8DcZJQ
Was supposed meet up last night with my white-van Brexit voting portion, of my mates to ask them about The Truss but needed to cancel at the last minute. Unfortunately most of them won't be directly affected as they've paid off their mortgages and are bathing in work as their competitors the Polish plumbers have gone home.
Not the car crash I expected (hoped for)
Remind me to never get in a car with you 🙂
https://twitter.com/Femi_Sorry/status/1576495284133060608
It's an absolute shitshow. She's getting an 'explain to me like I'm five' on basic economics... from Laura Kuensberg.
The admission that HER OWN ****ING CABINET were not given advance warning, just by itself, drives the bus off the bridge.
Kuensberg is too soft on her.
This government has to go.
It's quite simply the IEA and the Taxpayers Alliance running the country.
People need to wake up to this absolute disaster.
Don't forget to sign and share.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/619781
night with my white-van Brexit voting portion, of my mates
think I saw them this morning at the popup vax clinic taking up the first five chairs at the front of the queue while the lady with cerebral palsy or motor neurone (sic), leg braces, crutches and a helmet had to sit on the curb in front of them. With ****s like this in the country we're all worse off.
Kuensberg is too soft on her.
Of course she is. She is a tory. However she still made Truss look stupid
The complete takeover of the UK government by far right zealots continues at pace
I really do think that this is full on scorched earth and they intend to do as much irreversible damage as possible before they’re booted out
https://twitter.com/jessphillips/status/1576541593150320641?s=21&t=cic3mvSq-NbcFADR8DcZJQ
Re Kuensberg et al…….
Why, when they keep repeating the line that ‘we shouldn’t keep focusing on redistribution’, are they not asked if that means the end of ‘levelling up’!
If levelling up isn’t redistribution, I really don’t know what it is?
Because they have to soapy tit **** the interview otherwise they’ll never get a chance to host them again, that’s why the regional bbc interviews last week with Truss were so good.
Barely worth noting but hasn't she just given herself a 10k p/a pay rise with this tax cut?
Truss bot 2.1 needed a reboot during Laura Kuenssberg interview , obviously an over the air update failure.
My Tory MP actually gave me a reply and it's not the usual "everything is fantastic" reply.
Let's hope there's a big split coming.
I think all Conservative MPs have to be careful in the coming days not to create extra instability because of what has happened. But I am very aware of the scale of concern about the decisions taken and there is clearly a big pushback at Westminster. I find it hard to see MPs accepting the proposals in their current form.
With best wishes
Chris Grayling
Blimey. That is a surprising answer.
You’d be forgiven for thinking we didn’t have a parliament this year… have they voted on anything since July?
In another worrying development for the surrey pensioners that voted for the Trussterf*ck this was on Surrey Live today
https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/how-badly-damaged-would-surrey-25147506
Could affect house prices a bit. Idiots.
But you look at her and it’s as if everything is going just great and everyone will come to appreciate her genius, given time.
I genuinely think that she’s completely hatstand! Totally deranged! Madder than a box of frogs!
She looks utterly unhinged when she’s interviewed.
Would anyone bet against her triggering article 16, from the lectern,?live on air, during her conference speech?
How the hell did we end up with that as Prime Minster?!
https://twitter.com/johnjcrace/status/1576636674771021825?s=21&t=HSpDBs0DAOjniiR3QBmHrA
I genuinely think that she’s completely hatstand! Totally deranged! Madder than a box of frogs!
She looks utterly unhinged when she’s interviewed.
“about as close to properly crackers as anybody I’ve met in parliament” - Dominic Cummings.
How the hell did we end up with that as Prime Minster?!
Brexit. Politics as a game show. Idiot party electoral systems that leave the final selection of a leader up to party members, see also Corbyn and Johnson.
Didn't she just throw her chancellor under the bus in that BBC interview this morning, can't remember the exact phrase but it was basically 'it was his idea'.
Guessing rewinding her neck on the 45p tax threshold will quell rebels (and the other mental ideas will stay). If it all gets too messy then Kwasi will go for that and she'll just run the country down enough for eveything to be privatised by her pals just before the election.
I thought kuennsberg was supposed to be a good interviewer?
That was utterly dire.
Is that what the BBC has stooped to under threat of dissolution?
Glad I don't pay my TV licence.
Didn’t she just throw her chancellor under the bus in that BBC interview
I thought it was telling that the meeting with the OBR was at no11, almost as if all blame is with the chancellor
I thought kuennsberg was supposed to be a good interviewer?
If you’re a Tory MP, she’s the very best. You won’t get an easier ride than a Laura K interview. You’d get more of a grilling off Phil and Holly on This Morning
I’d like to see Victoria Derbyshire give Truss a proper working over.
As for Truss and Kamikwazi,… I suspect their respective minions will be spending the week briefing against each other, before it breaks out into a full on he said/she said Bitchfest when we get the next run on the pound, so probably Tuesday morning
I’d like to see Victoria Derbyshire give Truss a proper working over.
That’s niche.
