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

So, does she want to buy the turnips in the back of our truck or what?

Come off it.

Kwasi Kwarteng is chancellor, James Cleverly is foreign secretary, Suella Braverman is Home Secretary, and Kemi Badenoch has been appointed international trade secretary.

For a party that we're told is misogynistic racist and Islamophobic, they sure don't have a top cabinet that reflects that accusation.

If one says the Tories would do anything to stay in power then I can't see why they wouldn't vote for a PM of colour if they thought electing one as PM would keep them in power.

That's the thing. Tory MPs would do anything to stay in power including putting a BAME person forward if they were electable but because the electorate don't what said person then they are not electable.

I don't think Tory MPs care what race, religion, sexual orientation (including fetishes) a person is as long as the person is from the right class. The members are another story.

She has already flip flopped on a number of important decisions so I would doubt her suitability for this job seeing she runs with the crowd in order to preserve herself. She has already backed herself into a corner with her own party by having to commit to massive subsidies for energy.

Her contempt for the NI situation may be in part direction by the Tories wanting to wash their hands of the North, but it's going to cause mayhem for the foreseeable.

Harris is treated as a patsy, although above all of them all he does appear to be straight with people which does count for a lot. McEntee like Leo is very much dependant on how the wind is blowing and completely self serving.

That's the kinda thing used to happen when there were adults running the show.

Yes they are both examples of the membership foisting an unpopular leader on the MPs but in the case of the Tories, they could easily get rid of theirs with a vote of confidence and effectively block that person from making it to a run-off.

The majority of the Labour party MPs seemed to despise Corbyn but they couldn't get rid of him. They voted no confidence in him in 2016 but he just stood again for leader and was voted back in by the party membership. If the Tories went by the same rules, it is likely that Boris Johnson would still be leader and PM today, having just won a vote of the party members.

I full support Johnny Mercer not getting a portfolio....even if it is for the wrong reasons. His attitude to the crimes committed, with impunity, by some members of the British Army, are the very worst of British chauvinism in action.

Is the role of the party ensconced in the UK Constitution? And, is the process to determine the PM mentioned in the Constitution beyond "MP's will choose the prime minister" or some such? Because I don't think anyone would start the day coming up with an idea for government that includes political parties, official voting party membership (independent of who votes in general elections) and so on. Seems like it's been ad-libbed as time has gone on.

The US Constitution, for all its numerous failings, doesn't mention political parties at all. Does the UK Constitution talk about them?

The two party system seems to lend itself to deep division and wealth inequality. One of the main reasons Europe doesn't appear to have down this route is because of multi party coalitions, which effectively prevents the system being hijacked by one party (the one exception is Italy, which has always been a political basket case and which has the same type of dodgy media billionaires the US and the UK has).