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

[Greg Bobkin]

OK so she resigns... what next?

Jeremy Hunt caretaker? what strange times we are living in.

Give it Big Sam until the GE

 

[rippleman]

……are you going to stand or shall I ?

I've already nominated TB. It should be a coronation not an election

 

[dazzer6666]

The ONLY thing they can do for the country right now is call a General Election. It is ludicrous. They couldn't pick a leader last time, now they should have to let the public decide.

This is unprecedented political turmoil and chaos. They are only acting in their own interests if they are unable to take this to the public. A 3rd PM in a year is not governance.

Just to confirm, they will 100% act in their own interests and keep their noses in the trough as long as possible, because when it does end for them, it’s going to have ended for a very long time.

 

[Solid at the back]

Can't see what a different leader will do. That party is a mess, it's poisonous party. I'd be so embarrassed if I voted blue.

 

[Lever]

How would you feel if it was one of the cretinous Corbynites being called a c**t? If the same, then fair enough.

Which of them do you think might legitimately be accused of being one?

Give it Big Sam until the GE

Brilliant!

 

[rippleman]

If they "elect" Sunak, I can see the ERG playing up again. Moreso with their new poster girl Braverman.

 

[Randy McNob]

remember when people said we should leave the EU because it's not democratic?

where's our democratic right at the moment while our country goes down the toilet?

Who's laughing now

 

[US Seagull]

Resigning as leader of the Cons. Leadership election. No GE. Self-Serving Tory wankers.

Sadly for a GE, you need to get the turkeys to vote for Christmas.

 

[Bold Seagull]

The MPs picked the correct one, the membership did not

The MPs were unable to get behind a single candidate to lead the country. There is no reason to believe they will be able to pick an adequate candidate again. They shouldn't get a second go at such a profound decision for the country. You got rid of 1 PM yourselves, you picked another and they weren't up to it – the next go has to be the British public.

 

[beorhthelm]

why on earth is she staying as PM? she's just going to get slaughtered by all around her

at this point its just an administrative office. someone to sign off or make key decisions. who'd you have step in as caretaker, Coffey? Rees-Mogg?

there wont be a GE until they at least have a leader to take them into it.

 

[Guinness Boy]

About 2,459 other threads for this eloquent, informed rant.

Thanks though.

This aged well

 

[BBassic]

because when it does end for them, it’s going to have ended for a very long time.

It's interesting to consider all the young people that have grown up knowing nothing but Tory austerity, Tory infighting and shambolic Tory government.

 

[beorhthelm]

The MPs were unable to get behind a single candidate to lead the country. There is no reason to believe they will be able to pick an adequate candidate again. They shouldn't get a second go at such a profound decision for the country. You got rid of 1 PM yourselves, you picked another and they weren't up to it – the next go has to be the British public.

thing is one wing of the party has been eviscerated, their core ideals shot down by the gods of the market. maybe some might think it was on delivery, they'll shirley know they cant try it again.

 

[jcdenton08]

Which of them do you think might legitimately be accused of being one?

Brilliant!

Zarah Sultana, Diane Abbott - two politicians I desperately hope are nowhere near Sir Keir’s cabinet.

 

[A1X]

You'd need a heart of stone not to laugh

 

[Swansman]

How on earth are you going to find a worse one?

...I'm sure you'll manage somehow.

 

[BBassic]

You'd need a heart of stone not to laugh

I'm not quite at 'laughing' yet.

Currently sitting firmly in 'furious'.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

The MPs were unable to get behind a single candidate to lead the country. There is no reason to believe they will be able to pick an adequate candidate again. They shouldn't get a second go at such a profound decision for the country. You got rid of 1 PM yourselves, you picked another and they weren't up to it – the next go has to be the British public.

Majority of them want Sunak, he was proven correct and was an adequate candidate for the moment.

Hilariously polls outside the party also showed him to be accepted by the wider population.

 

[jcdenton08]

I've already nominated TB. It should be a coronation not an election

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)

 

[A1X]

Between June and November 2022 we'll have had as many Prime Ministers as we had between June 1979 and June 2007