Will Liz Truss really last only 17 more days?

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Newspaper reports as scathing as ever, and The Times suggesting Tories are lining up Sunak and Mordaunt as a duo.

can’t stand the woman but surely she’ll hold on for a bit longer - everyone was saying Boris would go much earlier than he did. And why on earth did they vote her into power in the first place 🙄

She needs to get going and take that bloody idiot Kwarteng with her.
Neither are no use nor ornament.

LOL at King Charles. He's gone up in my estimation.

www.skynews.com.au/world-news/united-kingdom/back-again-dear-oh-dear-king-charles-iii-mutters-as-he-meets-liz-truss/video/8101757acbde900f295fe4fb91ab7ceb

My mum is going to be Tory Prime Minister between 3pm and 5pm on 12th January 2023. She’s had to move her Tesco delivery slot.

There is no one better in the tory party to replace her. They are all total self serving rubbish.

Except Boris is fucking awful. Just awful. He lied to the whole country over and over and over again. Who in their right mind would put him in front of an electorate? It would be like the whole Tory party standing up and proclaiming that they want to follow a lying, gaslighting, moral bankrupt. The optics on that are just terrible.

Lettuce Truss, it has a certain ring to it.

Hmm that was my preferred spot but I’ll take the later shift then

I have every confidence that your mum will be able to rescue the economy more effectively than Truss and Kwarteng.

Sunak received a fixed penalty notice whilst serving in government, showed a lack of loyalty to the country by holding a green card for America, and showed a lack of judgement by backing Johnson until the very last minute.

Whilst the UK was on its knees during Covid, Rishi, the country's bank manager, gave the most vulnerable people in our society £20 extra to live in.

Meanwhile:

Rishi Sunak’s wife has potentially avoided up to £20m in UK tax by being non-domiciled and pays £30,000 a year to keep the status – revelations that come amid growing political pressure on the chancellor.

You can't be PM whilst your wife uses loopholes to avoid paying tax in the UK. It may have been legal, but it was immoral.

No more chances, no more unvoted PMs it's clear they are not up to standards.

It needs to go to a general election and now before the whole country is beyond repair.

I have full faith in your mum that in two hours she can turn this country around. 🙌🏻

In what way a scapegoat? Being held accountable for your own mess isn't scapegoating.

Don't know how long she'd have to stay in place until a replacement leader could officially become PM, but if she and Kwasi are still officially in place in 17 days I'll be surprised!

They ousted Boris because he was an electoral liability and many of them knew they would lose their seats in an election if he was still leader. I don’t think a lot of them will have forgotten that. Whether or not there’s enough that will be swayed by ‘it’ll be different this time’. I’ve changed. I’ll listen.’ Is a different question. Boris being a terrible PM was entirely predictable and they elected him anyway.

"And why on earth did they vote her into power in the first place"

So Johnson wouldn't seem so bad by comparison?

Channelling Thatcher to the old dears and not being brown. That's why she won.

This ^^ The party membership don't tend to be centrists. The Daily Telegraphs comments section is bristling with Truss fanboys who think benefit claimants are all scroungers and that fracking is a brilliant wheeze. They forget that Prime Ministers have to have wider appeal than the outer fringes of the Tory party.

It's curious that one surely even Chaz wouldn't be that rude. Maybe there is a different context other than you're a shitshow let's get that over with that I'm not seeing. If not otherwise nice move to be King of the Sheeple !

I agree that’s the gap between party membership and electorate. Although it seems to be more striking this time. They’ve always used this system and then gone on to win.

Maybe more a push back from spending which has been unusually high over last few years.

But he's a laff, and we could all do with a good laff these days.
There's a bloke who knows how to throw a party and cheer everyone up!

I am actually weeping with despair inside

It'd be Lettice Truss. More Tory.

The Sunak Mordaunt duo is premature, everyone is expecting a U turn on Monday, depending on the reaction to that will determine the fate of Truss. Dumping a PM after a few weeks is a big deal, also who would want the job now?, Gove perhaps but who would want him.

Having the Queen literally die shortly after the meeting with Truss was not a great start.

I'm not sure about the racism angle with Sunak. The conservative members who selected Truss were working from a position of pure greed and saw her as the best bet for further enriching themselves. If Sunak had done the same he would have likely won, instead he was ruined for embracing a version of actual reality.

The average conservative party member isn't suffering from any of this. Quite the reverse.

That can't be right, because the people who made the choice to put Truss/Sunak in front of the party were the conservative MPs, most of whom have come to personally loathe Johnson and know full well he's electorally toxic. Quite apart from anything else, he's highly likely to lose his seat at the next election so not a great candidate for leader.

If/when they get rid of her they won't let members have another vote for the next one, since conservative member wishes are now so idiotic they're an election liability.