Liz Truss Resigns as PM

[mrsukyankee]

Oct 21, 2022 8:28:08 GMT -5 audette said:

Oct 21, 2022 3:21:09 GMT -5 mrsukyankee said:

Yes. She was being led by the nose by the ERG, which is a right wing think tank (libertarian) who have basically tried to run the gov't and were instrumental in helping get Brexit votes.  The 80k votes were from Tory members, who don't even have to live here or be citizens - they just have to pay a fee. And it was from a group of pond scum candidates (imagine having some of your worst Republicans, including the stupid ones, being selected as candidates for an internal 'election'). Unfortunately, there's not much hope that they will call for a General Election, so we'll get more pond scum for the next two years and a few months. UGH.

Isn't it a minority government, though?  In theory, if the pond scum is sublimely awful, that could cause a coalition to fall apart, correct?

Nope. It's a Tory majority by a lot.

[audette]

Oct 21, 2022 8:29:39 GMT -5 mrsukyankee said:

Oct 21, 2022 8:28:08 GMT -5 audette said:

Isn't it a minority government, though?  In theory, if the pond scum is sublimely awful, that could cause a coalition to fall apart, correct?

Nope. It's a Tory majority by a lot.

Oh, shoot.  My bad.


That sucks.  I wonder how many PM's you'll get to cycle thru before the next general election...  Be interesting to see what the bookmaker odds are...

[pixy0stix]

Oct 20, 2022 8:08:18 GMT -5 livinitup said:

mrsukyankee I just heard on CNN and raced over here for your hot take!

44 days

4 Scaramucci‘s

I was hoping someone calculated this. LOL!

[aurora]

Oct 20, 2022 7:44:42 GMT -5 mrsukyankee said:

And just to add some humour as it's been such an awful experience in politics over here recently:
...

The lettuce has outlasted Liz.

Is it sad that one of my first thoughts when I read she has resigned was whether the lettuce had won?

[mrsukyankee]

Oct 21, 2022 8:32:06 GMT -5 audette said:

Oct 21, 2022 8:29:39 GMT -5 mrsukyankee said:

Nope. It's a Tory majority by a lot.

Oh, shoot.  My bad.


That sucks.  I wonder how many PM's you'll get to cycle thru before the next general election...  Be interesting to see what the bookmaker odds are...

Betfair odds

Looking like Rishi Sunak is #1 at this moment with Boris Johnson at #2 (blech). There's a STONG push out there for BJ, which would probably end up in a revolt of some sort (or at least I hope it would).

[spinnaker5]

The BoJo possibility is just uncomfortably close to a bad horror movie - the crazy clown who everybody thought was dead suddenly bursts through the door wielding an axe.

[sonrisa]

Oct 22, 2022 10:15:17 GMT -5 spinnaker5 said:

The BoJo possibility is just uncomfortably close to a bad horror movie - the crazy clown who everybody thought was dead suddenly bursts through the door wielding an axe.

That sounds like Trump as much as Johnson.

[konapoppy]

The clown is out. Thank god.
www.cnn.com/2022/10/23/world/boris-johnson-will-not-contest-conservative-party-int/index.html

[mrsukyankee]

Oct 23, 2022 15:36:40 GMT -5 konapoppy said:

The clown is out. Thank god.
www.cnn.com/2022/10/23/world/boris-johnson-will-not-contest-conservative-party-int/index.html

And the best thing - so many of my least favourite Tories came out in support of him! All the stuff for the future to use against them. 

[tealblue]

Rishi Sunak appears to be the new PM. Penny Mordaunt dropped out.