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

[Driver8]

So the lettuce won.

 

[Seagull]

Good riddance. A very low quality, venal, self-interested and foolish person. Totally out of touch with society. Can it get any worse? Possibly ...

 

[Deadly Danson]

I'm so glad we got RDZ in when we did otherwise he'd be a top candidate. I assume the Tories will now ask for permission to speak to Chelsea with Potter their top choice.

 

[A mex eyecan]

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On the other hand if it is Ress-Mogg we could be back here again next month. Lol

you’ve just made me have a little bit of sick in my mouth ..

 

[sparkie]

Hunt rules himself out of Leadership contest.

 

[Eric the meek]

At least we've got another week of solid entertainment to take our minds off the Man City result.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

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

That's alright, they're both much more likely to turn up in my kitchen cabinet.

 

[Hotchilidog]

The Tories can choose a new leader, but the public should choose the next PM. General Election Now!

 

[jcdenton08]

That's alright, they're both much more likely to turn up in my kitchen cabinet.

Thank you for the reassurance! I think the nation, not just Labour supporters, now needs to stand full square behind Sir Keir Starmer.

 

[A mex eyecan]

Hunt rules himself out of Leadership contest.

to be fair, who would want that gig? a few weeks/months of managing a disaster of a party and then lead it into an anihalting GE

 

[Bold Seagull]

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.

It wasn't a huge majority was it, wasn't like all the MPs were behind Sunak, the 5th ballot was Truss 31.6% Sunak 38.3% – I'm not calling that a decisive ballot, and if he wasn't a unifying figure then, why would he be now? I also think those outside polls should be to be 'more acceptable' [than the other candidate] by the wider population, not necessarily accepted per se.

 

[horshamite]

The Tories can choose a new leader, but the public should choose the next PM. General Election Now!

No sense having an election, a government would get in.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Tofu: 1; Braverman 0.
Lettuce 1; Truss 0.

 

[TomandJerry]

The men in grey suits strike again...

 

[jcdenton08]

to be fair, who would want that gig? a few weeks/months of managing a disaster of a party and then lead it into an anihalting GE

It’s also a pity because if I HAD to pick one of these fools to run this joke of a government it’d be him or Sunak.

 

[JamesAndTheGiantHead]

I keep flitting between laughing and seriously considering emigration.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Quickest canning of a PM since, er, Canning in 1827.

 

[Motogull]

Good grief. What an utter shambles. The rest of the world must be pissing themselves at our inability to govern.

RIP the lovely word 'bungle****'.



To lighten the mood:

 

[Stato]

Bring back Craig Scanlon & the Hanley brothers?

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

It wasn't a huge majority was it, wasn't like all the MPs were behind Sunak, the 5th ballot was Truss 31.6% Sunak 38.3% – I'm not calling that a decisive ballot, and if he wasn't a unifying figure then, why would he be now? I also think those outside polls should be to be 'more acceptable' [than the other candidate] by the wider population, not necessarily accepted per se.

I think they meant a majority of MPs want him now, not during the election.
38% isn't a majority at all, it's a plurality. I think there's a conservative conspiracy to confuse people on this so we don't realise how messed up the voting system is.
Amusingly, and apropos of nothing, my phone tried to autocorrect MPs as MUSLIMS.