[Politics] Liz Truss **RESIGNS 20/10/2022**

[Eeyore]

Voting online. What can possibly go wrong? Hacking, registrations from Russia?

The mind is boggled.

I think there will only be one candidate. They will have a fight among themselves and then just put a single person up.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

What an unusual name.

Kenneth?

I suppose so.

 

[rogersix]

Do you think they ever imagined it would end like this 44 days ago?

Complete shit show.

no, but everyone else had a fairly shrewd guess

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Voting online should at least make it too confusing for the kind of people who somehow decided Liz was the person to choose.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

It begins. Unless this is a parody account?

Unfortunately no.

Conservative MP for Rochford and Southend East. james@jamesduddridge.com
UK Minister of State for International Trade

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Reports from The Times apparently that BJ might stand again. In normal times that would just be impossibly ridiculous. These are definitely not 'normal' times however, and haven't been for some time.

Doesn't surprise me.

I seem to remember his farewell speech, likened himself to some Roman Emperor who returned to power after being deposed.

If he's on the ticket and the Tory membership get to choose, he wins, no question.

 

[rogersix]

League is soon finished in Norway so Kjetil Knutsen might be available.

Could of course try to buy out Graham from his contract but I don't know if the UK can afford it after the recent turmoil.

apologies for the randomness, but if you had to pick one, what would it be, potter's philosophy, or tony bloom's?

 

[Weststander]

Disputing sums didn't make the policies far left, neither did the culture of personalities. You might be right, those personalities may not have been popular, but the policies were.

Their autumn 2019 polling gave a shopping list of proposals, all of which were liked by the UK public eg spend more on the NHS. That's always been the case hasn't it?

It was a distrust that the purported low increases in taxation, could ever meet the shopping list. The revered IFS said they would not.

Personalities .... this talking shop has spent the best part of 10 years hating on personalities of blue and red. It's new social media and media age. Gaff prone members of the left were never going to escape that mocking and scrutiny, in the same way that Boris, Dorries, JRM, Truss didn't.

Duplicitousness over Brexit-Remain was of course the final straw. Corbyn was a career-long architect of trying screw Major-Blair tying us ever closer to the EU. But in the 2019 GE he tried to be smart by not openly sticking with that ethos.

 

[Braggfan]

The respected IFS said the sums did not add up. Their additional spending plans were on a different scale to their proposed tax rises.

Sorry, it'll always be Blair-Starmer-Y.Cooper-A.Johnson Labour for me. Possibly Burnham too, we await his view on national policies.

Never Corbyn-Lansman-Burgon-Abbott. That would've been another comedy show, this time from I d

The respected IFS said the sums did not add up. Their additional spending plans were on a different scale to their proposed tax rises.

Sorry, it'll always be Blair-Starmer-Y.Cooper-A.Johnson Labour for me. Possibly Burnham too, we await his view on national policies.

Never Corbyn-Lansman-Burgon-Abbott. That would've been another comedy show, this time from the left.

I don't think you're alone in feeling that the extreme sides of both parties have been a shower in recent years.

Personally I think it highlights the need for electoral reform and proportional representation, where middle ground politics will dominate. And although there maybe some extreme candidates getting through, largely those views on either side of the spectrum will get held in check.

 

[Swansman]

apologies for the randomness, but if you had to pick one, what would it be, potter's philosophy, or tony bloom's?

They're not entirely dissimilar. Calm, sensible, rational, feets on the ground, builds it slowly. Both would be great PMs, but kind of like the England national team job it isn't a job you want if someone else is willing to employ you.

 

[A1X]

 

[A1X]

 

[nickbrighton]

I just had a brilliant idea! I’m going to come out as gay and become prolific on Grindr, then I’ll always be able to claim I have a man-date.

I’ll get me coat.

(No, handwringing fellow social liberals of NSC, this is not homophobic, it is a poor and unfunny play on words

As a gay man I can onfirm that this is not homophobic at all, however as a sometimne user of grindr I can say its is is an unrealistic expectation that "dates" are trhe outcome of interactions on grindr- you are lucky to get even a reply most times

 

[Bold Seagull]

Their autumn 2019 polling gave a shopping list of proposals, all of which were liked by the UK public eg spend more on the NHS. That's always been the case hasn't it?

It was a distrust that the purported low increases in taxation, could ever meet the shopping list. The revered IFS said they would not.

Personalities .... this talking shop has spent the best part of 10 years hating on personalities of blue and red. It's new social media and media age. Gaff prone members of the left were never going to escape that mocking and scrutiny, in the same way that Boris, Dorries, JRM, Truss didn't.

Duplicitousness over Brexit-Remain was of course the final straw. Corbyn was a career-long architect of trying screw Major-Blair tying us ever closer to the EU. But in the 2019 GE he tried to be smart by not openly sticking with that ethos.

All that may true, but it didn't make the policies of Labour's 2015, 17 or 19 manifestos far left.

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

Another unelected PM to come then. What a wonderful thing democracy is.

Unless it's Johnson......

 

[Weststander]

All that may true, but it didn't make the policies of Labour's 2015, 17 or 19 manifestos far left.

I didn't read all the posts in this lengthy thread.

2015 and 2017 weren't far left. 2019 wasn't on the face of it either.

 

[Marty McFly]

Unfortunately no.

Conservative MP for Rochford and Southend East. james@jamesduddridge.com
UK Minister of State for International Trade

That's really quite something. Really hard to decipher these days where the lines between parody and reality are in relation to UK politics.

 

[Swansman]

And what happened to Churchill?

That's right. He died.

 

[US Seagull]

 

[Stato]

Kenneth?

I suppose so.

Is that unusual? What's the Frequency (of) Kenneth?