BREAKING NEWS ! Liz Truss WINS !

[CharlieH]

Liz Truss has been voted the leader of the Conservative party and is the New UK Prime Mjnister.

She won with 57% to 43% of the vote.

 

Source; BBC 

 

 

 

[baboon]

We're doomed.

[Chomper Higgot]

Great news for the opposition, dreadful news for the UK’s millions of poor.

 

I’m looking forward to PM’s question time, it’s going to be a gas.

 

 

[brewsterbudgen]

Great news.  It almost guarantees Sir Keir will be our next PM.  Well done the Tories.

[champers]

Thank goodness I live here now. 4th Tory PM in a little over 6 years. Many on her own party benches cannot stand her.

[RayC]

Not sure why anyone in their right mind would want to be PM at this particular moment in time?

 

Anyway, I'm sure that she's reading this thread????, so good luck, Prime Minister. You're certainly going to need it.

[BritManToo]

3 minutes ago, RayC said:

Not sure why anyone in their right mind would want to be PM at this particular moment in time?

There's a rather generous pension and even more generous expenses forever.

Not to mention a paying seat in the House of Lords.

 

"We're a generation of men raised by women. I'm wondering if another woman is really the answer we need.” (Fight Club)

[Chomper Higgot]

First job, change the wallpaper.

[Denim]

Many Brits will be disappointed.

 

I really wanted a non binary handicapped person of color with ethnic minority vegan parents as PM

 

Gutted.

[baboon]

36 minutes ago, champers said:

Thank goodness I live here now. 4th Tory PM in a little over 6 years. Many on her own party benches cannot stand her.

It isn't exactly difficult to see why...

[Bluespunk]

Quelle Surprise

[RayC]

33 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

There's a rather generous pension and even more generous expenses forever.

Not to mention a paying seat in the House of Lords.

All of that - albeit a pension at a  slightly reduced rate - is available to those who remain on the backbenches picking their noses and complaining about road by-passes.

 

Can't see the appeal of being a minister - let alone PM - at this moment in time.

 

33 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

 

"We're a generation of men raised by women. I'm wondering if another woman is really the answer we need.” (Fight Club)

Man, woman, unsure: Doubt that anyone's got the answers to the problems facing our new PM. Hope that I'm wrong.

[In the jungle]

The most implausible part of Liz Truss' CV is that a man had an affair with her.

[ballpoint]

The UK is well and truly trussed up and ready for the oven.  Unlike Boris's Brexit deal.

[baboon]

4 minutes ago, In the jungle said:

The most implausible part of Liz Truss' CV is that a man had an affair with her.

I know I would rather have a J. Arthur...

[Mac Mickmanus]

1 hour ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Great news.  It almost guarantees Sir Keir will be our next PM.  Well done the Tories.

Labours popularity was more to do with Boris's  incompetence .

Labour are currently ahead in the Polls and would win an election if there was a vote today .

  Quite likely that Labour would win the next election of Boris  had remained as leader .

   Voters may now go back to Tories as there's now a new leader .

   Boris remaining would have been a benefit to Labour

[Chomper Higgot]

36 minutes ago, Denim said:

Many Brits will be disappointed.

 

I really wanted a non binary handicapped person of color with ethnic minority vegan parents as PM

 

Gutted.

You’ll have to do with the idiot you’ve been given.

[Bluespunk]

Champagne corks being popped in the opposition camps right now... Christmas has come early and they have been gifted a PM who has no grasp of detail or the minutia of her own polices.

 

Judging on the leadership campaign I would imagine truss is going to need a full time minister of clarification to explain what she really meant every time she opens her mouth.

[Mac Mickmanus]

15 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

Champagne corks being popped in the opposition camps right now... Christmas has come early and they have been gifted a PM who has no grasp of detail or the minutia of her own polices.

 

Judging on the leadership campaign I would imagine truss is going to need a full time minister of clarification to explain what she really meant every time she opens her mouth.

As Labour are currently in the lead in the opinion polls , I would imagine they would be quite concerned that Conservatives now have a new leader and now have an opportunity to gain popularity and win the next election , which would have been highly improbable had Boris remained PM .

  The next UK election is due by 2025 , giving Liz plenty of time to turn things around

[kickstart]

1 hour ago, Chomper Higgot said:

First job, change the wallpaper.

I would not bother, let Sir Keir's wife do it ,she is probably looking for new curtains online already.

Will we be sending Christmas cards this year or food parcels ,I am just glad I am here now .

And I see they all have got a day out in Scotland tomorrow ,the Queen is at Balmoral Castle ,not fit enough to travel down to London for the handover

[Chomper Higgot]

17 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

As Labour are currently in the lead in the opinion polls , I would imagine they would be quite concerned that Conservatives now have a new leader and now have an opportunity to gain popularity and win the next election , which would have been highly improbable had Boris remained PM .

  The next UK election is due by 2025 , giving Liz plenty of time to turn things around

The only thing Truss is going to turn around are the promises she made the Tory faithful to get the job.

 

Oh and Boris, he’s planning to come back.

 

He understands Truss is his best chance.

 

 

 

 

[Mac Mickmanus]

1 minute ago, Chomper Higgot said:

The only thing Truss is going to turn around are the promises she made the Tory faithful to get the job.

 

 

Didn't take long for Her to be accused of being a liar .

Took a few hours and she's not even started her job yet .

Expected though

[Chris.B]

The lefties are out in full on this thread.  

 

[Mac Mickmanus]

10 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

 

Oh and Boris, he’s planning to come back.

 

No he isn't planning a comeback .

[Chomper Higgot]

4 minutes ago, Chris.B said:

The lefties are out in full on this thread.  

 

Of course we are w, it’s good news for the left.

 

The Tories had two choices, and they chose the idiot.

[Chomper Higgot]

10 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Didn't take long for Her to be accused of being a liar .

Took a few hours and she's not even started her job yet .

Expected though

Watch.

[RayC]

24 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

As Labour are currently in the lead in the opinion polls , I would imagine they would be quite concerned that Conservatives now have a new leader and now have an opportunity to gain popularity and win the next election , which would have been highly improbable had Boris remained PM .

  The next UK election is due by 2025 , giving Liz plenty of time to turn things around

That's the optimistic scenario from a Tory perspective and if Truss manages to turn things around - and I hope that she manages to do so - then she deserves another term.

 

However, one alternative scenario is that we enter a recession that lasts until, at least, the end of 2023; that raging inflation and rising interest rates cause problems, not only for those at the bottom but also for the middle classes. By early 2024, Tory grandees decide that there is no chance of Truss winning the next election and dump her.

[Bluespunk]

37 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

As Labour are currently in the lead in the opinion polls , I would imagine they would be quite concerned that Conservatives now have a new leader and now have an opportunity to gain popularity and win the next election , which would have been highly improbable had Boris remained PM .

  The next UK election is due by 2025 , giving Liz plenty of time to turn things around

I didn’t mention labour, but given who the tories have elected I would imagine they are quite happy the way things turned out. 
 

She is a gift to the opposition. 

[Mac Mickmanus]

14 minutes ago, Chris.B said:

The lefties are out in full on this thread.  

 

They need to chime in with the pretend celebration .

*Just what We/I wanted , really pleased with the results because it will mean they will lose the next election* .

  I think it stems from the joke song that football fans sing to each other "We want him(their manager) to stay " , singing they want the oppositions manager  to stay on as manager because he's not very good  .

   Quite funny when it was first sung about 20 years ago

[Bluespunk]

“She won with 57% to 43% of the vote.”

 

Lowest ever margin of victory for a tory leader. 
 

Good to see the membership as divided as the parliamentary party.