BoJo banished - Liz Truss down. Is Rishi next for the toaster? **threadbans in OP**

Pretty much a foregone conclusion at this stage. Ballot opening next week and most will vote straight away. It seems Sunak is going to lose on "trustworthiness" and his "inability to lead" which is pretty ironic considering what the party stands for and who they'll vote to win.

David Gauke was saying yesterday that a lot of the Tory disciples are not too happy about the way Sunak effectively stabbed Johnson in the back by resigning (unlike Truss).

Someone was always going to take the flak for bringing him down and Sunak was an easy enough target and justifiably so but lets be honest, most wanted rid in the end. Its an easy way out to blame someone but they're not all without faults but I think their basis is flawed compared to others.

Truss talking about taxing "ordinary people" is interesting.

Where is she going to go for the funding for her plans? Tax the rich? I doubt it.

It won't be long before she starts with fancy names for new fangled taxes she'll need to create. Universal Social Charge anyone?

Mostly she will be useless and change nothing at all I reckon. She might talk about it but that's all.

There's talk that she has too many connections to the hard right / far right. She's the favoured candidate of the ERG, the Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph love her, she's backed by Frost and Braverman, apparently she met up with some dodgy alt right groups when she was in the US etc. Mordaunt and Sunak have been paying lip service to being hard right Brexiteers, but Truss seems to be the real deal.

She was a Liberal Democrat early on, her Thatcherism runs as long as it might get her elected.

She campaigned for Remain and was earnest in that from what I recall. Now she is Brexit Queen.

An ideologue, she is not.

She's a glory hunter and willing puppet. She'd do porn if she thought it would get her on top

The whole idea of a strike is that it causes as much disruption as possible, don't underestimate the feeling of the general public about this, it seems the vast majority are are in support of the RMT and other unions.

Starmer needs to learn to read the room, sacking his minister yesterday was a big mistake. If Truss or Sunak go down the Thatcher road and attempt to make striking illegal then you will see a national strike in the UK.

Michael Heseltine said Boris Johnson was “A man who waits to see which way the crowd is running and then dashes in front and says ‘follow me’....”

Truss is about 100m behind the crowd shouting "Wait for me, I think that too!"