The fall of the Tory party

But the members don't care.

I know he's top here, but its hardly a ringing endorsement.

Fuck me, just had my first look at the news all day

What’s happened?

Ok, so you get a GE, but Tories still win!?You underestimated the consequences like the Brexit vote? Then what?

#greatestshowonearth

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.

Good summary there
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Such a disgrace
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Chant down babylon

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' moving the deckchairs on the titanic '

From

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To out of the door

Socialist republican independents unite.

I'm not uniting with them - I'm with the Republican Independent Socialists...

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I'm betting on Hunt for next Tory PM.

He's just denied that he wants the job, which is a sure sign that he does want it and is well placed to succeed. (compare 'Yes, Prime Minister).

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.

Splitters!

Edit. Damn, beaten to it

Been chuckling at this please excuse the language.....

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I know it's Guido, but they have Johnson on 25, Sunak 19 and Mordaunt 6.
Oh dear.

https://mobile.twitter.com/RussInCheshire/status/1583169656751550464

I'm surprised they can type with their various orifii surrounding the member for uxbridge

I suspect whoever is next will go down as the final PM of the UK Conservative Party.

Kind of not allowing myself to hope for this

Question Time is on before the evening news! End times.

Smashing contribution from a chap wearing a golf tank top

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.

He did say that people in his party had been acting in their own interests rather than the "national interest". I probably disagree with him regarding what is in the national interest, but I suspect that many decent one-nation-style Tory MPs have suffered from boiled-frog syndrome over the last decade.

So, after funeral and conference season, Truss officially worked as pm for 12 days. Meanwhile, Johnson is nominally still a sitting mp and despite the 22 weeks parliament doesn't sit, is on holiday during the working session. Lazy cunt.

They were a long hard 12 days for that 115k package she’s walked away with.

Every penny worth it 🤡

This is so fucking depressing.

https://order-order.com/2022/10/20/whos-backing-who-the-spreadsheet-returns/