Big Dog is enjoying his last weeks. Who will be leader - Truss or Sunak Thread 13

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New thread as needed.

I wonder what new promises will come out this week?

An odd description of Liz Truss - watching paint dry, but I suppose it works, not a lot going on after all.

Absolutely!

But it's been so lacking of late

Good old Ian

He'll hold them to account and Truss will be like a wobbly blancmange in front of him

It'll be like watching paint dry. Wonder what Blackford will pipe up with now that his weekly 'resign prime minister!! resiiiiiiiiiign!!' wail will no longer be in his sermon.

Yes I do imagine Truss will be as boring as hell. I agree.

But I'm still looking forward to seeing if she has a plan - or even just an untrue sound bite - to keep repeating as an answer to everything just like Johnson did.

But it's true if she's anything like he was it'll be like watching paint dry. It doesn't do much and it's always the same process.

'Yes I do imagine Truss will be as boring as hell. I agree.'

It'll be a bore off between Starmer and Truss. Having said that in comparison she will seem sharp, on the ball and witty.

I doubt that.

She doesn't even want to come across that way. She wants a Thatcher type persona. (Except thatcher was actually very intelligent and good at communicating - you can't deny that even if you hated her!)

But I'm willing to wait and watch and find out!

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Me too!

Bearing in mind can't even face nick Robinson on BBC I doubt she has the answers, the wit, or the gravitas to cope with anything

She's never achieved that yet, what is going to change before next week?

We don't seem to be getting any response to this question, or indeed @Novum's question on on a similar issue, @JaniieJones?

On a similar subject -

"Sexual misconduct allegations revealed against cabinet minister and top No 10 aide"

twitter.com/skynews/status/1565445000963493891?s=21&t=f97ari8lsFwivvLdhwiBHw

Awful to read that women can't speak up speak up because of the impact on their careers. If you don't have faith in the process or fear being isolated what choices do you have?Senior women MPs who reported Parish were unwelcome after they complained -

Some Tories believe Parish should never have stepped down – and even blame the women who reported him.

 “He should have just gone away with his wife for a few weeks and then come back to the job. I don’t know why the girls had to speak out like that.”

twitter.com/theipaper/status/1540629300382253056?s=20&t=0O7fxZcgLUEckVL6sjrURg

Hmm. Thatcher was a good communicator if you liked someone to communicate to you by, metaphorically, smacking you over the head with a hand bag.

@JaniieJones I quite agree, that has been very evident in the broadcast interviews they have both done this week.

So.... it wasn't just about the cake, as some defenders of BJ would say. There were big security issues.

twitter.com/montysbiscuit/status/1565467457002901506

This does not surprise me one little bit. And I suppose like lots of other issues with him, he will just get away with it.

"Harry Mount, the author of "The Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson", has been appointed as an Independent Member for the House of Lords Appointments Commission.

The commission will oversee the peerages Johnson hopes to get through."

twitter.com/michaelsavage/status/1565631859630956544?s=21&t=ZispbQ2ApiRf0BQexUJFyg

You see Johnson can get things done - if they serve his purpose.

Can someone start a new thread,?
The result of this never ending leadership contest is nearly upon us and I don't want to miss anything.

I'm only on a mobile and it's a bit fiddly

Will do.

Big Dog - Going, going, not quite gone. Thread 14. www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/4624784-big-dog-going-going-not-quite-gone-thread-14

I can't quite believe you think Cummings is a reputable source regarding 'security concerns'

It was in the SG report, redacted. Is she not a 'reputable source' either ? She is a very well respected civil servant.

'A former no.10 staffer said Cummings was dismayed that stuff was left lying about blah blah' <paraphrasing>.

As I said who gives a rat's ass what Cummings was dismayed at.

As I said who gives a rat's ass what Cummings was dismayed at

Anyone who takes national security serious.

Why does it worry you to investigate Cummings claims?