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

[nicko31]

If Kwarteng really is going to be sacked it had better not be that Rees-Mogg tool who takes over.

Remember every time the pool on non-talent gets narrower and narrower.

 

[Audax]

So what's he getting at then ... (Former Tory Chief Whip!)



Very easy to interpret this as "Truss' remaining time as PM is short".

Edit: looking back on his Twitter timeline, that can be the only interpretation - I think that tweet is code for "I've sent in my letter".

 

[WATFORD zero]

Remember every time the pool on non-talent gets narrower and narrower.

Here's what I posted over 3 years ago when Kwasi was first appointed as a Minister from being a junior minister in the Brexit department

Kwasi Kwarteng was, this morning, appointed Minister of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. He will also attend Cabinet.

He would have been appointed yesterday, but didn't realise that amongst his responsibilities as a minister in DExEU was keeping his phone turned on so that people could contact him when needed.

Just about sums up the level of Brexiteer that Johnson is now having to appoint to make up the numbers for his Cabinet

Spooky huh

 

[sparkie]

Liz has already thrown KK under the bus last week, she’ll make sure this one hits him in the head. He’ll be fired. She’ll limp on until a GE is called in the Spring.

I don't mind if she limps on - providing she doesn't meddle anymore with people's mortgages and pensions. If she sticks to harmless stuff before she gets booted then the better for all of us.

Perhaps she should just concentrate on decorating Downing Street or going away on a couple of far away jollies.

 

[monty uk]

I don't mind if she limps on - providing she doesn't meddle anymore with people's mortgages and pensions. If she sticks to harmless stuff before she gets booted then the better for all of us.

Perhaps she should just concentrate on decorating Downing Street or going away on a couple of far away jollies.

.... and the further the better.

 

[Eric the meek]

'Conservative MPs agree on one thing - this is a total shambles'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-63221738 17:33

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Liz (Two Soups) Truss

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

Truss has always made a point of grovelling and curtseying like mad when in the presence of royals.

It would be rather ironic if it's Charles' "Dear Oh Dear !" comment which finishes her off

 

[Motogull]

The bungle**** can't believe his luck. I reckon he's already planning his 2022 Crimbo parties as next PM.

 

[A1X]

 

[A1X]

 

[Acker79]

 

[A1X]

First time the Tories have polled under 20% (other than when the Brexit party was leeching their vote) since 1995

 

[sparkie]

Get him sacked ASAP.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Get him sacked ASAP.

Sure there will be a bus waiting for him at the airport

 

[Lenny Rider]

In all seriousness how bad is all this going to get?

Apparently she’s got 17 days to save her job?

Is the answer actually asking the Country who they want to lead the Nation rather than the membership of the Tory Party?

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Remember every time the pool on non-talent gets narrower and narrower.

We're already at the point where if Truss went full Caligula and appointed a horse to the cabinet, I'd consider it an improvement.

 

[Hugo Rune]

Sure there will be a bus waiting for him at the airport

The Anti-Growth-Coaltion are behind all of this! How dare they demand costings and an explanation of how a government can slash taxes but keep public spending at the same level.

Kwasimodo might well throw himself off the tower before Liz manages to run him down in her economic death bus.

 

[Seaber]

With this Sunak/Mordaunt ticket, is the idea Truss would be ousted and replaced without going to a leadership contest?

If so, hard to see who would get top job, who could get CX. Sunak more experienced but already been rejected by the membership, Mordaunt no experience of top jobs but ran Truss a close second to challenging Sunak a few months ago.

I'm not sure about Mordaunt, but Sunak is apparently loathed by many backbenchers. Not sure how much these experienced Tories putting forward this idea can inspire the party to get behind them.

 

[nicko31]

Labour will be hoping the U-turn happens and Lizz and Kwat stay for the foreseeable.