The fall of the Tory party

Heard a good phrase from an ex-whip that probably explains it:

~ you don't enter the yellow box without knowing your exit is clear

Either that or they're on another vacay because why not?

and @andyp
I suspect- the Tory MP's/ potential leadership candidates with "political aspirations"/ an element of common sense have realised that keeping out of the captain's seat in a sinking ship is a smart move. At least you might get to a lifeboat.
The golden outcome - if you're not an ardent conservative (almost the entirety of LFGSS members - remember the echochamber)-seems like a snap GE. The route to this is substantive, wholesale disruption of the Tory party.
However, it can be argued, that further political (ie Snap GE) uncertainty leads to even further economic turmoil, and that a period of stasis- regardless of encumbant- must occur now.
With respect to the Snap GE- the most likely route to that is the re-instatement of Johnson, as this could potentially disrupt Parliament as a whole to have the vote of no-confidence.

It is, however, unrealistic to assume that that would happen, and be effective.

In other words, no matter the next incumbent, the reality is that stasis is necessary to temporarily halt a further dive into further economic failure. The sad reality for all of us [here] is that means trusting the most utterly untrustworthy set of people.

Unless...

I half expect Boris to get in, and to go again not soon after and then we will have Truss back again.

I think Sunak will win and Johnson's supporters will have a damaging meltdown.

I think Sunak will win and Johnson's supporters will have a damaging meltdown.

I think this is very likely, it’ll only be weeks until the sizeable Johnson support starts say he’d be up in the poles by now and the psycho drama Will continue at pace.

Local election in May too with a massive number of Tory seats up for grabs which this won off the back of Johnson / Corbin it’ll be a blood bath. Think that might be the time a GE ends up happening

Raab was on the Today programme reminding people that Boris is still under investigation by privileges committee.
Some supporters of Mordaunt originally are coming out for Rishi as she seems to have fucked herself by supporting Truss.

A fitting political epitaph

https://www.politico.eu/article/liz-truss-uk-prime-minister-ambition-tory-conservatives/

^ good read.

Twitter accounts already making excuses about it being a fit up if Sunak wins.

Hate to say it but I hope this division widens. I know we need a government that is governing on an urgent basis but it feels like the quickest route to get to that point.

That's a harsh depiction of a souless husk of a person.

a fit up if Sunak wins.

What does that mean?

That they.... got Truss to.... implement the economic plan she campaigned on?... and by passing the OBR and then rigged the global financial markets?

A splendid article. Thank you for sharing

I don’t think you could trust her to boil a kettle. How certain politicians progress so far is beyond me.

Presumably it’s not knowledge or talent, it’s networking, biding your time and scratching the right backs. They’re just cunts

Her husband "works" for a company that apparently only employs one person, that's not him, and yet is registered in the Virgin Islands.

Please provide your own tin foil hat.

That was good, a kind of catharsis

That article makes her come across as quite far along on the autism spectrum.

Someone I follow on Twitter linked to it and, given they are a sensible and objective person, I thought it worth a read.

Know your enemy and all that.

I'm not sure that bandying around ASD as a flyby diagnosis is helpful to anyone, least of all to people that are neurodiverse.

Yeah, it's not really a line from "normal" to autistic that talk like that implies you fall somewhere along.

What does that mean?

The tufton street grifter accounts on twitter are already describing a potential Sunak victory as a remainer globalist coup. Some MPs are towing that line

I think the world schism is going to be used a lot over the next few weeks

Thanks for that link, would not have found and read the article otherwise.

Liz Truss is the outcome from a self reinforcing echo chamber of the Tufton Street-based operatives. That she could have been one of the authors of Britannia Unchained,
and no-one ever told her and her co-authors that this bundle of repressive ideas, (they do not constitute a coherent policy), means they have all served as useful idiots.
Singapore-on-Thames was never a viable goal. Singapore has not chosen to erect trade barriers with its immediate neighbours and is only viable because the small city state can leech off of its much more populous neighbours, not just in trade but in resources. Malaysia provides much of the water Singapore needs.

The problem we have is that there is no sanction for being so bad as Liz Truss & Kwasi Kwarteng. They can continue as MPs as long as their local constituency party supports them, and they will continue to be funded by financiers who can easily afford to subsidise their activities. Shorting Sterling and exploiting tax loopholes ensures profits are sent offshore to avoid any contribution to the Exchequer.

Right, but what does that actually mean? And how has that played out?

Obviously I recognise that this isn't your point. Just this sort of drivel is getting old now. Not least the irony of a "coup" to remove someone put into power by a few 100k of people.

I noticed Brendan O'Neill, with his desperate urge to be controversial, had some article about an unelected Remainer coup when Hunt was made chancellor.

Maybe the BJ run is going to shift the Overton window for Sunak. "Please help us our billionaire fixed penalty notice hero" or something similar. I reckon Penny just ran because her #PM4PM slogan is so good.

I think the world schism is going to be used a lot over the next few weeks

As in "this total collapse of the Tory party is causing me to get schism over everything"?

I didn't diagnose shit. I said that's what the report made her sound like. Frankly I think she's just useless.