Will Liz Truss resign today?

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Or maybe Tuesday at the latest? Would she really want to face the absolute public humiliation of PMQs on Wednesday?

She’ll be remembered as the PM who crashed the economy less than three weeks after taking power. That’s some going.

It's always about the bloody party isn't it?
The rest of us can go hang for all they care

Wise words......agree completely.

Oh..........dammit; this.

They are shutting out us arnt they ?
No change there

Lowest bar ever - headline in the Guardian.

Truss gets through cabinet without any minister telling her she should quit, No 10 says

My money's on a Mordaunt / Sunak ticket with Jeremy Hunt back as Foreign Secretary. Continuity May as it were with a headbanger cull.

"We have listened and we have learnt, difficult times globally blah, blah,blah"

Still won't be enough to stop a Labour majority but might eat into a landslide and utter annihilation.

If she hangs on another 20 days she gets the ex PM pension so doubtless that will be a factor!

She's going to try and hang on, I think. Why though? She has made such an utter dog's breakfast of everything and must know it.

She looks awful, looks like her confidence is utterly spent and has ebbed away. She cannot possibly be enjoying her job or her life at the moment so surely needs to step back.

That isn't necessarily sympathy. Just observation. Much of the trouble is self-inflicted and has had a widespread effect on everyone.

I wonder if people have said you need to stay while we sort some stuff out

I don’t get it either. It just looks so hard

Welllll…. That pretty much started with Brexit. The source of all of this misery lies firmly at the feet of Boris. What a legacy.

No way will that hard faced mare resign. She will have to be dragged off kicking and screaming. She's a joke.

Sorry but that did make me laugh, in a good way :)

She could call herself Mary O Leary , wear glasses and a wig and smuggle herself out of the country
The border control would let her go quietly

She wants to cling on for sure.
It'll take a lot to make her go.
The conservatives have Hunt in charge now , so they will let her rot in place.

Witness protection is where many of them, including Truss need to be. The nerve of them. Arrogant sods the lot of them. Treating us as if we are naughty children who don't understand the adult world of politics and economics. A school playground would have more people with integrity and intelligence in it.

And Brexit. Whether you agree with it or not, the absolutely painful process of pretending it's great, and appointing pro Brexit people exclusively all the way along, and maintaining a false front for it is the reason no one with any intelligence is at the helm anymore.

SleeplessInEngland
Extraordinary poll from ⁦@ InstituteGC
⁩⁩Strong majority think Brexit has damaged economy. Tiny number believe we should keep things as they are. More Leave voters support rejoin or Single Market than status quo. 70:30 majority overall for closer relationship with EU.

Don't get your hopes up too much on rejoin/single market.
From the same poll;

9. Over two-thirds of voters think the UK should be in a closer relationship with the EU over the medium term, but only a third are in favour of the single-market type arrangement.

^When asked what the UK’s place within Europe should be in the next 10–15 years, just under a quarter (23 per cent) say “inside the European Union”...

There is little appetite among the British public for a preferential migration policy for European workers. Voters across the board, including just under half of Remainers (47 per cent), want European workers to be treated the same as other foreign workers.

institute.global/policy/moving-how-british-public-views-brexit-and-what-it-wants-future-relationship-european-union

I was wondering about origin of that tweet thanks for link

No problem.

Can you imagine her poor children??

Contrary to popular belief, as is proclaimed a million times over in the right wing press, Labour has always been more financially responsible than the tories. It was the tory government in the early 70s that did almost exactly the same as truss, got away with it but then followed massive inflation which lead to strikes (sound familiar?) and the 3 day weeks. Just before the end of the Heath Tory government, they considered getting a bail out from the IMF, which the incomming Labour party had to do and as such got the blame for it from our friends at the Telegraph, daily mail etc. Thatcher did the same which lead to the 82/3 recession and ever increasing interest rates. Thatcher also sold off the nations assets to finance tax cuts for the rich and so it goes, repeating over and over, then Labour comes in to clean up the mess but at the same time gets the blame. We have had 12 years of contraction of the real economy since Cameron got in, not just a recent phenomenon, Brexit, Johnson and Truss are just the turd on the shitcake of tory governance.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_sterling_crisis

Voters across the board, including just under half of Remainers (47 per cent), want European workers to be treated the same as other foreign workers.

You do realise that this doesn't necessarily mean what you would like it to mean? I would like to see this question expanded to ask whether those polled want 1) the same restrictive system the UK currently has for everyone (which is leading to a shortage of workers in many occupations, or 2) a freedom to come and work for all nationalities, as long as they are actually working and paying taxes - the way EU FoM could always have been handled but the UK chose not to.

Until that question is asked, it's a bit of data that cannot be interpreted one way or another.

Just watched Tory member who voted for Liz, interviewed by BBC, expressing that she is so disappointed in the PM and that what she is seeing now doesn’t represent Tory values.

Another one talking about how Liz seemed so strong during the leadership campaign, now disappointed that she seems so weak and wishes that she would go.

What were these people really hearing over the summer?

Unfortunately In these economic conditions the U.K. can’t afford a general election. Plus those living south of the border probably don’t realise the next election is being used by the SNP as a de facto independence referendum. If SNP win more seats in a general election as they have in every one in recent years - not more votes like in a referendum (they’ve never managed that ever) - they plan to force a second referendum on Scotland against the country’s large majority vote to stay in the U.K. They are plotting to destroy the U.K. and this is the perfect time. If this happens the current problems are a mere shadow of what’s ahead!