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[Dr. Ken]

The lettuce wins!!!!

[Dr. Ken]

And she quit.

Nice, a £115,000/year retirement for 6 weeks on the job.

[June bug]

From the replies:
“Truss hits iceberg and sinks.”

[Volkonski]

[Volkonski]

[Greatgrey]

Ya don’t need a translation.

[RTH10260]

Liz Truss resigns as PM and triggers fresh leadership election
Truss says she will step down after a week-long emergency contest to find successor

Peter Walker, Pippa Crerar and Jessica Elgot
Thu 20 Oct 2022 14.05 BST

Liz Truss has resigned as prime minister and will step down after a week-long emergency contest to find her successor, she has announced outside Downing Street.

It follows a turbulent 45 days in office during which Truss’s mini-budget crashed the markets, she lost two key ministers and shed the confidence of almost all her own MPs.

Her statement came after she met Graham Brady, the chair of the 1922 Committee of backbench Tory MPs at Downing Street, followed by her deputy PM, Thérèse Coffey, and the party chair, Jake Berry.

Truss said she had entered office with “a vision for a low-tax, high-growth economy that would take advantage of the freedoms of Brexit”.

She went on: “I recognise that, given the situation, I cannot deliver the mandate on which I was elected by the Conservative party. I have therefore spoken to His Majesty the King to notify him that I am resigning as leader of the Conservative party.

“This morning I met the chairman of the 1922 Committee, Sir Graham Brady. We’ve agreed that there will be a leadership election to be completed within the next week. This will ensure that we remain to deliver our fiscal plans and maintain our country’s economic stability and national security. I will remain as prime minister until a successor has been chosen.”

Opposition parties called for an immediate general election, saying the Conservatives had no mandate to govern.



https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... e-minister

[Volkonski]

So now the Tories will have to choose another new leader.

They have been thru Cameron, May, Johnson and Truss since 2016.

Any Tory who now would want the job will have to have enormous self confidence or be a bit of a masochist.

Whoever is chosen will have been passed over just 45 days ago.

[Chilidog]

Ya don’t need a translation.

[Greatgrey]

[AndyinPA]

[Greatgrey]

The hits keep coming, from yesterday’s Question Period.

[Uninformed]

The odds are shortening on Boris returning…

[Dr. Ken]

[AndyinPA]

[Ben-Prime]

This one was being shown around the office today. Some of my local staff colleagues at the Embassy were giggling like fiends. And a few of them admit to being sometime Tory voters.

[much ado]

This one was being shown around the office today. Some of my local staff colleagues at the Embassy were giggling like fiends. And a few of them admit to being sometime Tory voters.

Is there any evidence that some sometime Tory voters are abandoning ship, perchance?

[Reddog]

So a “Truss” is apparently somewhere between 4.1 and 4.5 “Scaramuccis”. Has the Fogbow Bureau of Standards pinned it down yet?

[Gupwalla]

This one was being shown around the office today. Some of my local staff colleagues at the Embassy were giggling like fiends. And a few of them admit to being sometime Tory voters.

Is there any evidence that some sometime Tory voters are abandoning ship, perchance?

If a general election were held under Truss, the Tories would get absolutely curbstomped.

It’s possible that a different leader to carry the banner through a GE could hold onto some more seats. But it’s Labour’s game to lose at this point.

[Volkonski]

[Volkonski]

[AndyinPA]

I'll bet DFO would like that chance.

[RTH10260]

https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1583215389630091264

BBC News (UK) @BBCNews
Friday’s Telegraph: “Boris Johnson tells Tories: I can save party from election wipeout” #BBCPapers #TomorrowsPapersToday http://bbc.in/BBCPapers
11:55 PM · Oct 20, 2022

Save the party from election wipeout? Will not happen, I mean the saving part. The voters will remember the cold winter and the energy bills to come and the cost of living. Boris may be able to save the party from the shame that no sane person among the MPs and former ministers will want to take the positon of PM until the next crash.

[RTH10260]

skipped 4 minutes of other subjects

[Sam the Centipede]

The voters will remember the cold winter and the energy bills to come and the cost of living. Boris may be able to save the party from the shame that no sane person among the MPs and former ministers will want to take the positon of PM until the next crash.

Hmmm… so you have left an "in" for plenty of candidates!

And don't forget how egotistical many senior politicians are – it's what drove them towards the top.