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21 minutes ago, nigelforbes said:

Hunt with a C confirmed as new Chancellor.....I wonder who comes after him.

Are you available next Thursday? I have an appointment and would also like to keep the following weekend free. I can take over from you on 24/10. Can someone relieve me on 1/11 please?

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Jokes aside. This is embarrassing. This is political ineptness never previously seen in the UK.

 

Shortly before Johnson was ousted, someone - apologies; I can't remember who - posted that those of us who wanted him out should be careful what we wished for. I dismissed this comment as nonsense from a disgruntled Johnson apologist; any new leader could not possibly be as bad. Unfortunately, in hindsight, it seems that I may have been wrong.

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1 minute ago, RayC said:

Jokes aside. This is embarrassing. This is political ineptness never previously seen in the UK.

 

Shortly before Johnson was ousted, someone - apologies; I can't remember who - posted that those of us who wanted him out should be careful what we wished for. I dismissed this comment as nonsense from a disgruntled Johnson apologist; any new leader could not possibly be as bad. Unfortunately, in hindsight, it seems that I may have been wrong.

That was me who posted that people should be careful for what they wish for .

   Boris was quite politically central and stable  and Truss is further to the Right and not as stable as Boris

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Truss should never have backed down to the pressure from the champagne communists. A slippery slope. A political mistake. She should have doubled down on those policies, not reversed.

 

Her only saving grace is that Labour are still unelectable. WMD Tony is probably considering a comeback as we speak.

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Absolute debacle of a press conference.
 

Most of the questions she took during that humiliating 8 minutes questioned why she should remain in office. 
 

Stormed off after answering (for want of a better word) the fourth one. 
 

Debacle. 
 

She is going to find it incredibly difficult to survive as pm after this. 

 

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5 minutes ago, SatEng said:

Regardless of your own personal fantasies

 - Tony Blair will not make a comeback

 - Boris Johnson will not be leader of the conservative party again

 - The Conservative party have now been in office so long that pointing the finger at the opposition history will not work with the electorate - an electorate who will want to see change at the next election

- The only way for the Tories to remain in power is to shift the goalposts - allow a Scottish referendum and take the SNP MPs out of Westminster so that there is not a left coalition of Labour/Lib/SNP with enough votes to defeat them- above all the Tories want to remain in power and any ideology can be sacrificed for that

Are you personally in favour of Scottish independence ?

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9 minutes ago, SatEng said:

Regardless of your own personal fantasies

 - Tony Blair will not make a comeback

Probably - and hopefully - true

 

9 minutes ago, SatEng said:

 

 - Boris Johnson will not be leader of the conservative party again

Personally, I'm not so sure about that

 

9 minutes ago, SatEng said:

 

 - The Conservative party have now been in office so long that pointing the finger at the opposition history will not work with the electorate - an electorate who will want to see change at the next election

Agreed

9 minutes ago, SatEng said:

 

- The only way for the Tories to remain in power is to shift the goalposts - allow a Scottish referendum and take the SNP MPs out of Westminster so that there is not a left coalition of Labour/Lib/SNP with enough votes to defeat them- above all the Tories want to remain in power and any ideology can be sacrificed for that

Can't see that helping. A Westminster parliament without Scottish MPs would probably help Labour more. Instead of having to govern in a coalition, they would probably be able to form a government on their own.

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2 minutes ago, baboon said:

I believe it was 8 minutes and 20 seconds.

Of flapdoodle, however.

'Yes, the Chancellor is sacked but we haven't done anything wrong. And God, I miss him, the man I just sacked. However I respect his decision to be sacked'....

And I've replaced him with someone who I didn't consider fit to serve in my original cabinet.

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