Liz Truss has resigned. Part 4: The Desolation of Boris

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Continuation from last thread, for those of us following all the action on Monday.

And yes I'm a LOTR fan, so tried to continue the theme in the thread title 😉

Back in August, it had turned out that the Tories weren’t Ready for Rish!. But now, just seven weeks later, Rish!’s return was being treated as the second coming. We weren’t just Ready for Rish!. We were now absolutely Gagging for Rish!. Not that anyone had a clue what particular policies he had in mind, because Rish! had negotiated the entire three and a half days of the leadership campaign without actually saying a word to anyone.

He could have been standing on the same leadership manifesto as last time. Or he might have a completely different one. You decide. Presumably he now acknowledges it had been a mistake to raise national insurance contributions by 1.25 percentage points. Or perhaps he is now going to reverse the cut in NICs, which was about the one thing Liz Truss had done that didn’t crash the economy. And we can only assume that he’s going to admit that he had been a fairly hopeless chancellor and would now try to implement a growth programme that didn’t involve rampant inflation and higher interest rates

The Guardian

God the BBC are really pushing the Hindu Asian angle. Wonder how much they want to stoke racist reaction.

I do really believe that the majority of people in the UK do not see it as a problem that our new PM is British Asian. I am willing him to succeed now to shut the minority bigots up.

And the Guardian is doing the predicable “not a proper British Asian because he has lots of money and isn’t left wing”.

The Lectern is out! Liz will be making her outgoing speech shortly.

Presumably without wearing her sunglasses.

I'm watching this instead of getting on with cleaning the house!

Delusional right to the bitter end. Tbf she can hardly do a speech holding her hands up and admitting she funked it up. Didn't sound right either saying one of her highlights was being PM at the time of the Queen's death!

Please tell me you made that up.

She's got a very small removal van...

No word of an apology. It's a real problem now: we're getting a class of politican who see admitting mistakes as a weakness. At the time Truss dressed it up as bad comms but clearly she still thinks it was the right strategy.

It was more that she said she had been proud to lead the country in mourning the Queen, but yes it was a bit clumsy.

It's all a useful reminder that this government is dying in front of us. Sunak gets his chance now, but it's a dire situation and I should think he will get even less tolerance from the media than Truss and Johnson. There have been too many mistakes, unforced errors, and now, it's costing us all money.

What I would like now is a really boring Government that just gets on with the bloody job with no drama or theatre. I want to be able to watch the news and say "This lot are soooo boring!"

I just don't want the country run like the bloody Oxford Union. And it has been for around 12 years. It is totally pathetic.

I wish Rishi Sunak the best of luck but I am not confident he will change this dynamic. The Conservatives need new blood and it really, really needs to be coming from outside Oxford university.

I suppose it depends how boring people find austerity.

(Not saying that snarkily - even Ukraine fell out of headlines eventually.)

I don’t mind Oxford. Also Stanford on a scholarship.

He’s clever enough and doesn’t strike me as the arrogant Bullingdon Club type

The best way he could show he's in touch with most of the population is to tighten up Non-Dom status even though it will cost him, his family and his cronies loads.
It would raise a lot of money fairly simply without squeezing the middle any more, and reduce the need for austerity.
He won't do it, but if anyone could, he could.

It's not about the quality of the University, it's about all those dickish games that they have been playing which are entirely derived from that bloody Union.

Oxford is a great university but that does not mean the Conservatives have to retain, rehash and replicate every moment from student politics over the country.

Watching them arrive and his wife (is she Mrs Sunak or Ms Murty?) strikes me as a practical lady - two bags and a sensible coat!

Yes, yes I know she's an incredibly wealthy heiress, I'm just trying to be a little light-hearted and I know very little about her other than what Wikipedia can tell me.

New lectern!

We're all going to be looking for subliminal messages in the style of lectern going forward aren't we!

Apparently his in laws are modest, quiet people. And that is good for them because the media would definitely like to pry.

Hmm, there's another thread saying it wasn't his wife, though Huw said it was "Mrs Sunak" and I trust Huw implicitly!

Well the image making begins! Rishi has been photographed with Charles to look a similar height.

It's not special treatment btw. It is always interesting that the PM is photographed officially to look their best. There were particular angles for May and Johnson too to flatter them.

I now feel a little bit sorry for him after his speech. I think he does realise that if he can't show results quickly, he is going to be pulled down by the media.

It is not good that our new PM has to speak over "I Predict A Riot" on the first day.