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Ok, so you get a GE, but Tories still win!?You underestimated the consequences like the Brexit vote? Then what?
The Tories are going to do anything within their power to avoid a GE as they'd (based on current polling) lose in a manner that is conceivably historically notable.
What we're seeing now is the manoeuvring of various factions to get their preferred PM as the result of Truss resigning today.
But, they're all going to be a disaster - so the eventual GE will likely still be a defeat, but maybe not as enormous a defeat as they'd get right now.
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I agree with this. Johnson won't get enough votes. Mordant (if it goes to members) or Sunak (if mps hold sway) will bring in reasonably sensible cabinet (relative to the last few years) and things will limp on in an unpleasant but not completely awful way for the next 2 years.
By the election they'll be back to 30/35% and lose but not be wiped out. -
The Tories are going to do anything within their power to avoid a GE as they'd (based on
current polling) lose in a manner that is conceivably historically notable.This.
Remember that it was the Parliamentary Conservative Party who forced BoJo to quit, but it's not beyond belief that 100 of them might nominate him (if he puts himself forward from the beach he's currently on) only in the hope of saving their own jobs.
Charles Walker did an impassioned interview on the Beeb last night which sounded really good until you ask 'why did he wait until now to say it'? And he only talked about the damage being done to the Tory party, not the country. He as been complicit in everything his party has done in Parliament in his 17 years as a backbench MP.
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peter_h
Ok, so you get a GE, but Tories still win!?You underestimated the consequences like the Brexit vote? Then what?
#greatestshowonearth