The fall of the Tory party

I wonder what she thinks she can achieve by refusing to resign? What great prime ministerial achievements will she go to make from here for example.

Maybe one would lose the the ability to make clear decisions to some extent once you enter the fire fighting phase with noise coming at you from all sides.

What's her minimum term of service to be eligible for an enhanced pension?

That’s a significant burden to have to carry

Isn’t it eligible for full pension from first day?

she's already made £100mn's for her handlers donors
she can retire and take her cut now surely

The Chris Mason interview yesterday showed that the conversation has moved on from Truss. She spoke a lot in the past tense about her 'vision'. Like a PM looking back at a wasteful decade in charge, but it has all happened over a few weeks. I enjoy watching politics as a drama, so this is great stuff.

Save face perhaps? Maybe she really did think her ideas were going to generate growth eventually?

she's already made £100mn's for her Dom

You don't become leader of a country by doubting yourself.

The inate characteristics you need to get into the job are mutuality exclusive to leaving it at when you should.

Probably been shared before but worth a watch

https://youtu.be/YPqDp90f6-Y

So very much this. You need to be highly disagreeable and well on the way to psychopathy to get to the top of politics anywhere, but especially so in the Conservative party where those you need to beat set the bar very high.

You need to be highly disagreeable and well on the way to psychopathy to get to the top of politics anywhere

This isn't really true. But yes you can't be a pushover, for sure.

I'd find it quite hard to believe that somebody who has nurtured a political career for 25+ years and has managed to become Prime Minister would not be suffering quite a lot internally as a result of having the same approval rating as a dictator who has invaded and committed war crimes in a European country...in her first month in post.

You can see it on her face. She's dying inside.

They were interviewing Rachel Reeves on BBC Breakfast this morning and she was asked if she had sympathy, as a fellow human, for Liz Truss.

When soft news programmes are asking this of opposition politicians then you know you've become a laughing stock and an object of ridicule. She probably thought this would be the crowning glory of her career, and she'd be the darling of the right and their media promoters, instead she's in a death match with a lettuce.

If she wasn't such an objectionable creep, it would be tragic.

You can see it on her face. She's dying inside.

She also seems to have visibly aged in the past week

If you completely forget who she is, what she has supported and what she stands for, its possible to feel a little bit of sympathy for the human being.

But you can't.

Good video thanks for sharing.

A lot of scum bags in politics.

Yougov polled Tory party members. 83% think she's doing badly. 55% think she should resign.

Boris Johnson is the preferred candidate to replace her.

This is what I was talking about when I expressed my opnion that I can't see how the party can avoid two years of damaging infighting if they try to cling on.

I guess all of Boris' crew was after her

And Sunak's

And Gove's

Who were her allies, again?

Maybe success was taken off the table before she was even 'crowned'

Most of the people on that list have already run for leader and been rejected (in the past few weeks). Not sure they could reasonably be elevated, though it's not like this is a usual situation so maybe they'd have to do it anyway

83% of Tory members think they've just made a disastrous choice as leader. 31% still think they alone should choose the leader. Wonderful.

Boris has to back Rishi or Rishi has to rule himself out or the Tories implode is a spicy but plausible take.

As the Tory leadership polls progressed Truss gained the support of the ERG, which includes all the supply side reform supporters who want the Singapore on Thames version of the UK, without the social housing.

Pretty jaw-dropping revelations (or claims) from Led By Donkeys. Of course, intense lobbying is not that surprising for (centrist, liberal, conservative, etc.) parties today, but Truss apparently took it to a whole new level.
https://twitter.com/ByDonkeys/status/1582303415576715265

Theresa May is being talked about as the unifying force.

😂