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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yeah it was Mason. Truss apologised for going 'too fast too soon' but in her apology referred to 'we' rather than '!'. Was some uncomfortable questions but she got through it, even declaring she would lead the Tories into the next election
Is it with Chris mason ? The audio is part of an episode of newscast and it’s not as bad as it has been.
She is being interviewed on BBC News at Ten right now
If they try to implement more austerity for two years then the inner cities will explode. Since they can't borrow their way out of this and they won't tax the corporation and billionaires they have zero options to ride this out.
Incredible. The whole of London and the south-east returning Labour MPs. Only possible, of course, due to FPTP. Wouldn't it be ironic if the prospect of such a thrashing prompted the Tories to bring in PR...
It's far more likely though, that there'll be another farce of a leadership contest followed by the Tories hanging on like grim death for two years with a big splurge in a pre-election giveaway budget, hoping that will do the trick. If a week is a long time on politics, two years is an eternity. Anything can, and on current form probably will, happen.
I don't think they have the intellectual capacity to carry out a plan of that nature. That said, you'd have to be deeply unintelligent to forget how crucial the grey vote is. Even LePen knows that you can't jeopardise pensions.
I'd be keen to hear what your mother thinks.
They finally managed to **** all over their natural base of baby boomers and destroy the value of their pensions. Many are to senile to join the dots, but surely the rest will final see the penny drop.
My mother is a Tory supporter in her late 70's and it will be interesting to see her take on things when I see her in a few days. She defendedBoris till his dying day.
I think their plan was to go full fascist and capture a new demographic of the poor white semi-employed but they seem to have blown that as well.
That's probably why Truss couldn't make the questions.
You are spot on.
Jokes aside, who votes for these cretins now?
Your one percenters are a given but they're by definition nowhere near enough. The middle classes are the ones who're paying through the noses for holidays and trips to their villas that were significantly cheaper half a decade ago. The working classes, well I suppose it depends on how levelled up they feel.
Personally, I'm surprised that nobody in the party is wondering where the next generation of Tories comes from given that so many of those in their thirties can't afford homes or families of their own. Where are the future Tories coming from?
I'd be curious to hear from older English people if Truss and Johnson are as toxic as Maggie and John Major were at the end.
This is all very dubious analysis. Companies with the diversity and inovation to last for decades (even centuries) has got to better than companies which come and go in the blink of an eye.
Bosch, Siemens and VW are some of the strongest brands in the world
And it's a country which has accepted the necessity of zero carbon energy and developed a long term strategic plan to achieve it.
The UK is a basket case in comparison.
At this rate they won't even be the opposition party.
At this point they should be thinking, "F*ck it. Labour, you can have it if you want? Here's my swipe card. Text me for the printer code."
It is but it is also an economy that anyone who worked in an Office 20 years ago would remember, fax machines, the novelty of email as a business tool, very poor internet in much of the country, including cities it's incredibly stagnant in many ways as well, outside of many manufacturing.
It will take years to get the energy mix back correct and will it ever be as cheap as Russian gas. In all probability no.
Britain outperforming Germany is not a boast for them, eurozone growth has long been a problem for the continent.
Germany is living off companies that are decades old.
Hunt is one of the 732 members of the Privy Council that can tell the King what to do talk to the King.
There is a quorum of three.
Or if they use the Opticians Act 1989 to get the foot in the door the quorum of the Privy Council shall be two.
This is a **** disaster for them.
Even Cowen managed a re-shuffle (of multiple ministries to the same people) when down and out.
This is just weird.
Iannucci wouldn't have been able to come up with this.
I wonder if she's even finished re-decorating with John Lewis yet.
About summed it up. It was very bizare.
Hunt on C4 news at the moment has just said taxes will go up, another Tory promise down the drain, they really are staring into the abyss right now.
Didn't see any of this but from reading here and on twitter it sounds like Truss dodged this session, then showed up unexpectedly, stared into space for half an hour then abruptly left again?
When Theresa May was fighting off VONC after VONC at least she put up a fight. Truss is being told to sit down and shut up, and she's just doing what she's told.
I'm just imagining the scenes where the Malcolm Tucker character explained to her in no uncertain terms what was expected of her going forward
It really is a humiliation for her. She'd be better off quitting for her own sake.
That more than anything else will be the determining factor in how long she lasts as PM.
She's never ever getting back to a position of authority in the Party and no matter what she does , the Tories are losing 200+ seats at the next election.
How long will she be willing to be utterly humiliated at every turn , just so she can say "I'm the Prime Minister" ?
Why should we be surprised she behaves like this when she backed out of debates during her election campaign. None of this should surprise anyone.
The necrotic members just responded to the claims to be Thatcherite like pavlovian dogs.
I wonder is it policy by social media.
Was someone sitting in an office watching her be ridiculed and tried to save the day by sending her in.
I don't think Truss had any say in the matter. She's the weekend at Bernie's PM. They'll drag her out to smile and wave but she's a political corpse who won't be allowed to make any decisions or speak to the public if it can be avoided at all
Such is the damage to her credibility and authority , it is actually genuinely possible that the Parliamentary party are not allowing her to speak because she's such a liability.
Frightening to imagine but given all that has gone on, I would not be in the slightest bit surprised if that turned out to be the case.
Well commentators are saying she didn't take the urgent question was because she wouldn't have survived the session. She has hung Penny Mordant out to dry, Mordant kept saying the PM was unavailable for a very good reason while being filleted and then Truss walks in as the Chancellor was about to speak. As @Yurt2 says above is she shell shocked at the moment? Surely this is not normal behaviour.
Not near a tv, is Truss now in the chamber? Why didn't she simply ask for the UQ to be delayed rather than have Mordaunt deal with it?
IS she incapable of answering? from the posts above, it seems she has gone into the chamber, taken her seat and is just sitting there. For what?
Mordant doesn't look too impressed with Liz, she was beside Hunt as he was answering questions and looked like she was glaring at her. Mordant seems to have left now...it all looks shambolic!
We really are all just sitting here waiting for that proverbial straw to appear.
She is surviving hour to hour at this stage - That's just not sustainable for anyone.
Whoever is sitting opposite liz truss must be freaked out as she’s just staring straight ahead at them.
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