Will Liz Truss really last only 17 more days? - Part 2

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Continuation of the previous thread

www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4654872-will-liz-truss-really-last-only-17-more-days?page=40

The polls suggest to me that the public might have noticed that the Tories are irredeemably toxic.

I hate to say it but with Johnson in charge the Tories were competitive in the polls, and that is all they care about.

All the sleaze, the lying, the partying etc and they were still competitive. Very depressing.

They weren't. They got slaughtered in the June byelections, one of which had been a safe Tory seat with a 20k majority.

True, but in July they were polling low to mid-30s. Not great, but a retrievable situation from their point of view and in that sense competitive. They're 10% below that now.

By-elections can't turn on things that aren't an issue a month later

It's pure right wing copium to think Johnson was going to be able to rally public support again, that the situation was retrievable despite what was obviously going to be an escalating cost of living crisis. Some of them just have this bizarre idea that he was Teflon and that because he pulled off the general election trick once that means he'd be able to do it again. By all means right wingers can make the argument that they might be on track to lose fewer seats under Johnson than they are now, but that's all it is.

This.

They were polling low to mid 30s and falling. Personal opinion polls were through the floor. Not quite the basement levels of Truss but still insanely low.

They may well have got it back from that level but it needed a new leader. They picked the wrong one.

That should be ‘personal opinion polls of Boris Johnson’

How much longer can this shitshow continue for? I envisage other ministers resigning in the coming days.

From Twitter

Number of Tory MPs giving up. One texts “what’s the point. Let’s call an election and all go back to our lives”.

I wonder if today is going to be the day.

Things seem to be getting ever more heated in Parliament and sadly Chris Bryant's tofu comment is probably accurate. Like a PP said, if Larry the cat were in charge of No. 10 and the civil servants were left to their own devices, we wouldn't be in our current predicament. The same could be said of tofu.

Today is the day.

It Woz The Lettuce Wot Won It.🥬🥬🥬

Very odd. She seemed to have a smile playing round her mouth for much of her statement. She’s a very strange woman.

She really did

Aaaaand she’s gone.

Wow

Who gets to eat the lettuce?

So the answer was "No, she's only got 6 more days".

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@harryjonesxx
cant believe she came, she killed the queen, she crashed the pound, and she left.

@PerkingFaintly I think technically she has another week until her successor is chosen, so the 17 days was fairly close.

I can't believe she was doing her silly little smirk during her resignation speech. There's something severely wrong with her.

They really need to change the rules for guaranteed annual income for ex PMs. You should have to have done a minimum 1 year of service as PM to qualify.

It was as if she was laughing at everyone. Really strange.

I thought it was three months so she won’t get it?

Oh, I hope so!

Yeah, just watched that resignation speech. There's something very odd about her repeated giggling smirk.

Johnson did Duper's Delight, Patel had a very unfortunate Resting Home-Secretary Face. Truss beats them both.

I thought it was just an unfortunate facial expression when people first mentioned it but... it looks more than that.