It's all falling apart alarmingly fast for Boris Johnson across the water. How long you reckon he has left as British Prime Minister? Hours surely?
How many parties are they talking about now? I've lost count.
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Yes I am, I’m merely pointing out the fact that the arranged interviews were with regionals and not nationals…. Suggesting they knew they’d be on the defensive way in advance!
I would say she thought the tax cuts would be a bit of a political bun fight and that’s it, not realizing for one second the wider ramifications.
the interviews with local radio was purely coincidental and she was probably expecting to be answering questions about local hospitals and roads and not about why the economy very nearly went down the shitter.
The worse part about those interviews were the long silences followed by a totally different canned answer. I think there's a good chance she had some useless handlers who were thrusting different pieces of paper in front of her to read out.
Rory Stewart did a really good interview yesterday. He was very polite when asked about her and very thoughtful but still managed to absolutely ream her with surgical precision:
In a nutshell, he said that she had no depth whatsoever and that this is now being exposed ruthlessly.
Thank you for the concern. Just checked and my stress levels are fine.
But back to the topic, Do you agree that Truss has been a complete disaster in her short run as PM? Not that the party can claim to be any better. They were all clapping Kwasi on Friday, laughing that the rich got a nice tax cut.
Not only has she completely wrecked the credibility of herself and Kwasi, she is pushing through Fracking despite opposition from the majority in the country, the science advising against it, and it will have very limited real impact on the energy price and none on the energy crisis.
She did a terrible round of interviews this morning. This should be her honeymoon period, the chance to wipe away the bad feelings that forced MP's to ditch Johnson, get a bounce in the polls and to look ahead to the next election.
Not exactly going to plan
As the saying goes "a week is a long time in Politics" so regardless of the original plan for these interviews her complete lack of ability and agility to "read the room" and either prepare properly for them or to arrange a proper full long form interview on a national platform to address the overwhelmingly negative responses to her policies is utterly unforgivable politically.
Boris would have been on every channel - He'd be talking utter bollocks of course, but it would be blustering, confident bollocks with lots of buzz-words and literary quotes thrown in to fill in the spaces to avoid detailed questions.
When she finally plucked up the courage to appear, her performance was abject in every way.
Not quite sure Boris would have been on every channel. He was captain hide and seek during a lot of his premiership. Hiding in fridges, banning ministers from appearing on good morning Britain etc. He too hid when the going got tough and sent out his ministers to lie no end for him rather than face them himself. He would do a controlled blather speech every now and then rather than facing the media for an interview.
This has got to be a record
New YouGov poll just out in the last 30 minutes and its a shocker
Labour surges to 33-point lead over Tories in YouGov pollGap in party support thought to be biggest since 1990s
Labour has surged to a 33-point poll lead over the Conservatives after a week of market turmoil triggered by Liz Truss’s tax-cutting budget. The YouGov poll for The Times finds Tory support has fallen by seven points in the past four days amid fears the government’s plans will lead to spiralling interest rate rises.
That's game over for this government.
Delusion on a medical level.
apparently the biggest lead by any government at any time for nearly 30 years
listening to drivetime on UK radio and it’s causing some shockwaves
but Truss has no choice but to double down. If she u-turns she is done. Apparently loads of Tory MPs not going to the conference including Sunak and supporters.
the conservatives are finished
Never heard of that guy before last Friday. I've seen him a few times since then and he comes across as a slimy, fast talking shyster.
Things getting worse for the Tories.
So Johnson got an 80 seat majority on ~43% of the vote - What does 54% equate to ??
That's an utter annihilation if replicated in an Election
If there was a GE tomorrow the Tories would have to go into coalition with every other non Labour Party to get 44% 🤣
This truly is unprecedented though, I reckon within the next 2 weeks we will either see more letters into the 1922 committee asking for rule change for a VONC or Tory back benchers crossing the aisle in a vain hope of holding onto their seats in the inevitable GE.
The times journalist plugged the numbers into a seat calculator. It had Labour on 541 seats and the Tories on 2 (TWO)!
Obviously this is transient and those numbers are sure to narrow but it's still objectively hilarious.
Tory party conference is this weekend isn't it....
Because of FPTP, you'd need to see more regional breakdowns.
I mean a big chunk of it could be safe Labour seats going from 65% of the vote to 90% of the vote or whatever. , but that's not an extra seat..
You'd love to see some polling from some Tory strongholds and especially those former "red wall" areas..
So going on this mornings utterances from Liz truss and her determination in ploughing on, if these measures in the mini budget which have to voted on, if they were defeated would that trigger an election as Liz truss by definition wouldn’t command a majority in the HOC ?
The headline will write itself- 'Fall of the Blue Wall'
Meanwhile the BBC are trolling Truss now, theyve gone and put all eight radio interviews together back to back so people can listen to a full hour of car crash radio. They've labelled it 'The Liz Truss Local Radio Interviews'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0d3flmh
LBC just said if the poll stands the Tories will be left with 69 seats.
SOOO the only way to trigger an election is by a vote of no confidence passing OR a budget being defeated. Since this technically isnt THE budget and is what they call a mini budget then I dont think it qualifies as being an automatic election triggered but it would make her position and the torys pretty untenable in the publics eye if it was defeated.
And into the Red
Thats why I asked as it’s been called a mini budget( not by the British government) and it would(and has) happened here in Ireland where governments have fallen on not being able to pass the budget.
Yeah thats where they get out of jail sort of because it wasnt a real budget, thats why they didnt have to get it costed and rightfully criticised by the OBR as has to happen for a real budget.
Times radio did a great montage of the interview highlights, backed by Bowie and Queen’s ‘Under Pressure’ (it’s at the start of the John Pienaar’s drivetime show…..can’t see that they’ve tweeted it)
They really are a slimy craven bunch the Tories. Hold an 'advisory referendum' on brexit so that they wouldn't have to follow the electoral commissions rules, and when they want to bring in tax cuts for the rich, do it under a 'mini budget' that doesn't require oversight from the OBR
They do not think any of the rules should apply to them at all do they
Maybe it's got to do with everybody knowing you as an unreliable Torybot.
Here is one poll
Surely Labour have to table a no confidence motion asap?
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