The fall of the Tory party

I wonder if a faster/cheaper way would be to add whatever 0.xx% is required on to the higher band tax rates to remove the rebate.

The really wealthy with heated outdoor pools don't pay income tax etc.

Ah - forget waiting for PMQs - Starmer has got an Urgent Question on the sacking of Kwarteng coming up this afternoon before Hunt's u-turn. Will be a car-crash. Again.

Is that the literal, figuratively or both groups?

Isn’t that what Rory Stewart warned about a couple of weeks ago?

You forget the 50+k a year that granny will need for care.

[Edit] looks like I'm a day late to this

It’s going to be Johnson isn’t it.

Anyone else leaves them open to the criticism of being undemocratic.

Johnson was elected with a massive majority, they’ll say he has the democratic mandate to be PM more than anyone else does…

Maybe she'll walk before then.

Can you imagine her at a hustings?

Clinging on to power, in my view, is the most undemocratic thing there is.

Hard to believe how this interview has aged https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/aug/29/rory-stewart-politics-privilege-podcast-stardom?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Truss doesn't have to be the one who answers it though. I imagine someone like Nadhim Zahawi may end up defending all this shit.

In terms of how leaky this gov is, within minutes of it being granted reporters were saying Mordaunt had agreed to take it, and it just seems to have been confirmed.

I mean her initials are PM anyway, maybe that's enough for her to have a whirl at it?

https://twitter.com/dasvee/status/1581987203609071617?s=46&t=veEa-46JTvIbeu09ENPmBg

My only comments on this is because they’ll continue to fuck shit up and the population will hate the conservative even more than before.

But agree why would, they’re in, they aren’t going anywhere.

Not turning up to answer the UQ, when she will presumably be next to Hunt straight after is an even more stark admission of weakness.
Think she'll be told to step down tomorrow.

Sounds like another huge poll being released @5pm as well.
Christmas election anyone?

The argument is that everyone knows the next few years are going to be bleak, so it's better to hand over the clusterfuck to Labour sooner rather than later so the public associate the upcoming recession with them, rather than the Tories.

It has some merit, especially when you consider how well the Tories stuck the fault of the global economic crash of 2008 squarely at the feet of Gordon Brown (who'd, arguably, done more to ensure it wasn't as bad as it could've been than anyone else on on the planet).

I people that dumb they can’t see where these problems originate.

Should there be a test before you can vote?

A bit like the test before you can have children

Am starting to wonder if the PM version (Version 1.0 Beta) of Liz Truss actually exists or was willed into form by the party and is in fact an elaborate hologram or an AI projected onto carefully placed sheets of glass

AI

More like Artificial Stupidity. Gedditt??

Mordaunt and Hunt. Two “unts” now leading the government instead on the usual one.

the test before you can have children

There was a test? Oops

Unconscionable New Tory Stand-ins

who'd, arguably, done more to ensure it wasn't as bad as it could've been than anyone else on on the planet

they walk among us

I think it stuck better in 2008 as Brown had been chancellor for a decade before he was PM though - the issue is too visible while Tories are in power to say labour caused it this time

Surely a tiering system on the unit cost would make most sense?

The more you use, the less you benefit though everyone gets the basic help

Ideally a split into several parties so the right has to fight as much as the left