The fall of the Tory party

Arguably, Cameron is the architect of all that came after.

Agreed, I think he has to take the top spot and that's some feat.

The referendum was an idiotic mistake, but May’s red lines are the root cause of the current crisis.

There was no mandate for a hard Brexit, but that’s what she caused to happen.

Rumour of Grant Shapps to come in as caretaker PM is gaining traction in finance chatter...

amazing

I keep saying that there cannot be a worse pm than the predecessor and they continue to pull one out of the hat. Shapps would be a continuation of the long succession of fuckwitts

And the budget U-turn is pretty much baked in amongst traders, corporation tax apparently to be raised by 3%.

One trader said "this isn't a U-turn, it's a slingshot round the fucking moon"

Obviously take the above with a pinch of salt, these guys are off their tits on marching powder and have been trading day and night for pretty much three weeks straight now.

Caretaker PM triggers another few months of leadership election. How could it be sustainable? There would be calls for a general election too loud. Think their best hope is to move Truss away from the knobs and buttons, but leave her in position and try to stick things out as long as they can. She can talk about cheese and pork markets, but no mad shit like the last few weeks.

There would be calls for a general election too loud.

22/1, I expect those odds to come in substantially later today. I'm sticking a tenner on.

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Caretaker PM triggers another few months of leadership election. How could it be sustainable?

Perhaps the MP's would only have one candidate this time for the members? But then I imagine the members love a leadership election so might not allow this, let's them feel important.

members don't get a say; the procedure is there are backroom deals done so that all but one of the candidates withdraw, leaving a winner by default. No messy campaigning or hustings & could be done quite quickly.

Evergreen protest banner I made

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members don't get a say; the procedure is there are backroom deals done so that all but one of the candidates withdraw, leaving a winner by default.

This. However, for this rag-tag bunch of cunts to coalesce and put forth one Super-Cunt would take a minor miracle.

Economist pic is good too.
She’s oblivious or refuses to admit her failure.

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Definitely worried Sunak or similar will be installed soon, normality (sort of) and some vague sheen of competency resumes, all of this madness and incompetence is forgotten by the time the next election rolls around.

I'd rather the country didn't burn, but can easily see them riding this one out sadly.

This absolutely

Don’t spoil the fun. Give Shappers a whirl!

Grant Shapps is clearly the obvious candidate to calm the markets.
If Shapp's economic policies fail to quell fears,
he can stand aside and let Michael Green unveil his more moderate economic policy.

I'm in a crash and burn mentality, lets give Nadine a shot.

She might be in the House of Lords before we have a chance.

It's this antiquated thinking that a member of the HoL cannot be Prime Minister that is allowing critics to typify this forum as part of the anti-growth coallition.

gave 10 downing street a good long loud booooo as i passed earlier

on behalf of everyone here

Matt Hancock not putting himself forward?

They each caused the next. Cameron set it all in motion then May's complete botch of an election led her in desperation to the DUP, she didn't have to do that. People forget how weak and completely lacking in leadership she was. She came up with what was ultimately the only solution to the NI border issue in 2017, but A. Foster veto'd it. Without that DUP deal May could have moved far quicker on the Brexit deal.

Cameron's casual and entirely PR focused approach to the office and May prolonged ineptitude handed Johnson the initiative to push everything through regardless of whether it will work or not, purely in the name of "getting brexit done".

Again people forget May was just as populist as Johnson in the divisive messaging only Johnson's actions upped the ante to labeling the Supreme Court enemies of the people as well as remainers etc.

When Johnson's entire Government left him in one night, his membership were so inebriated by Johnson's nonsense that they saw Truss as a legitimate option, purely because she was continuity Johnson and because Sunak "stabbed Boris in the back".

Also Johnson purged anyone remotely sensible from the Party as soon as they raised an eyebrow so none were left to influence anything from the inside.