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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The people elected this toxic shower three times.
True, but the country was in Brexit Fever the last time in 2019, and the Tories were the only ones who seemed to offer a clear policy on that. It wasn't a policy I agreed with, but it seemed to resonate with voters.
They keep mentioning this "mandate from the people" rubbish which is utter nonsense. In that 3 years since the 2019 election they've totally trashed the public's confidence. No way would they be voted back in now.
Exactly. It's the people damn it.
I think people underestimate how un-electable Corbyn was, even after they think they've underestimated.
On brexit, he was a deer in headlights from the start of his leadership to its death.
Interesting that you seem to blame the victims of the tories ,often described as con men,snake oil salesmen etc on many of these threads. (I agree with those opinions btw)
Sure but the public knew what they were. Cameron and Osborne were bent on stripping the state for their one percenter pals, May was obsessed with her hostile environment and dementia tax policies and Johnson just wanted to sit there and write his Shakespeare book. Now, we have Truss back to denuding the state once again.
I think you underestimate how much of the establishment were against him, and then there were the Israelis.
I think you underestimate the brobdingnagian volume of ammunition he provided them with.
Corbyn was as much a disaster for the UK as Farage, Rees Mogg, Johnson, Truss etc. Utterly hopeless leadership when it was needed, caught up in ideology.
"brobdingnagian"
I learned a new word today, thank you 😁
I can't see how the government can function with a car crash PM. Even if Hunt was doing a somewhat improved job as Chancellor, you'd still have the issue of the train wreck that is Truss running the country (and someone who is deeply unpopular and not trusted by anyone).
Many of the people that voted for the tories did so as the tories said they would only hurt the "other" people, just because they were fooled by the tories who ended up hurting everyone doesn't make their voting for them and reasons for doing so excusable
So what's the bets that Hunt will calm everything down and all will be ok in a week or so? He is de facto PM now anyway.
The worst possible scenario is that the ship turns around and everyone is happy again, so the Tories go on as if nothing has happened.
I did laugh at the fact that the boss sacked the worker for doing exactly what the boss wanted him to do.
Yes, and that is even how it was framed by the right wing / far right press. 'Them and us' and an opportunity to get one over on the others : the leftie woke liberal traitor crowd who hate Britain and who love immigrants.
If you take the whole queen's funeral and farewell coffin tour into account Truss had about 7 days of actual government to produce this omnishambles.
Impressive.
There is no economic miracle going to pull them out of this tailspin. This is their Brexit dream and fanatical economic fantasies coming home to roost. This was as inevitable as nightq follows day when they decided to ride the populist bandwagon. This collapse is baked into the decisions they already made.
If there were any sound economic fundamentals a policy of tax cuts would not have crashed the bond market.
Let's see how that plays out after the next GE. I mean, nearly 1 in 5 still think the Tories are the answer.
I think you over estimate how unelectable he was. Did you see the 2017 election? He was a piss hair in several constituencies from power.
May being shte obviously helped but people play down how good a campaigner he was.
He understood the power of silly slogans better than any Labour leader since Blair. People remembered and oft repeated "for the many not the few" "make June the end of May" and "ooooooh Jeremy Corbyn"
He sugar coated his more serious policy with stuff like reinstating George's day as a holiday and getting involved with protecting football for the average fan. That stuff actually works really well.
Exactly
The lies they told about Corbyn will be all that people ever remember.
Unfortunately, this is the basic fact of the matter. Lies not only told by the Tories, but by Labour too.
Some people may consider Corbyn "unelectable", I can't say how a government under him would have gone myself, but would it really have been as bad as the one that we've seen under Bojo and Truss?
I have a hard time envisioning that.
Truss and the right wing press crashed into the realities of the international markets - thinking they could impose their nutty ideological fantasies without any pushback.
After almost two weeks of economic uncertainty Jeremy Hunt is a safe pair of hands to end this financial chaos and to instill some much needed confidence back in to the pork markets. Under his stewardship Great Britain will ride high on the back of a giant Cumberland sausage.
The biggest fault lies with the senile old fogies of the conservative party membership who are about as representative demographically of Britain as a turnip and voted in Thick Lizzy instead of the competent Sunak, and quite probably racist post-colonial hubris carried the day on that one.
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Is Hunt actually a safe pair of hands ?
Does his ministerial history actually point to this or do people just think he is safe because physically he looks like a boring middle class accountant ?
(Not aimed directly at you. Your post is clearly satire)
Whoa, Thick Lizzy (Bam-ba-lam)
Thick Lizzy had a child (Bam-ba-lam)
The damn thing gone wild (Bam-ba-lam)
I think that result was more about ideology, or perceived ideology we should probably say about Truss. After all Badenoch was way out in front among members at one point, according to polling.
there were still plenty enough when it came down to the final vote imo
that poll there that you showed was not a binary option poll - it was across all candidates
"a membership who are 97 per cent white and 44 per cent aged over 65"
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