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Dunno what is worse Priti Shithell or Liz Truss. Or Sunak

Fuck me backwards

There need to be an awful lot more by-elections for it to make a difference.

Not sure Boris is the sort of chap cunt to go that easily.

Pretty sure you just ranked them in order of worstness so there's your answer.

At least if Sunak or Priti get in it will be a change from the middle age white bloke.

Just...looking...for upsides

At least Sunak made money doing a real job rather than political grifting (even if his current colossal wealth is his wife's).

Patel and Truss are definitely worse than Sunak.

Truss is a - borderline unhinged - Minister for Equalities who believes in 'woke orthodoxy' and is using the position to wage a culture war directed at minority groups and vulnerable people.

Patel, well, we all know about that. Sunak is not great, but would be a much better outcome. I don't think he's ever shown the pure, unbridled nastiness that Patel and Truss live and breathe.

Sunak is the UK's answer to Pete Buttigieg? On one hand intelligent and quite likeable, on the other hand deeply ideologically embedded in elitism and market economics.

ideologically embedded in elitism and market economics

At least he believes in something, then.

A lot of the party members' polling in the last few months has pointed at Truss. I have no idea what they see, apart from being anti minorities.

I'd sooner have a capitalist economist over fascists.

Not that the two haven't been merrily blended elsewhere.

Centrist Dads hoof out Toryscum in North Sciropescire.

I've got relatives in Market Drayton and Oswestry. It's not exactly a centrist dad demographic.

I'm pretty sure my Uncle John from Market Drayton used to vote Tory, then switched to UKIP. I imagine he now feels let down by Farage and Johnson so may well have voted Lib Dem.

Losing the constituency is a pretty huge loss for the Tories anyway.

The current government are facing an emerging full on economic crisis.. Inflationary pressures from commodity prices and excess money supply.. Poor economic growth.. Excess public and private debt..

Stagflation is actually happening. Just need some strikes and the 70s never went away.

Yup. It's going to get spicy.

Anyone want to buy some bikes?

Although the unions today have nothing like the power and reach that they had in the 70s. For better or for worse, they at least made sure that the economic pain was felt across the social spectrum. This time it will be all just punching down.
It will make the austerity years look like a picnic.

Remind me, who elects the new PM?

In my imagination, an economic crisis is going to allow me to buy the dip in the London housing market. In reality, there will never be a dip.

at least in the 70s, average house prices were a reasonable multiple of the average wage, happiness levels were high, and income inequality was declining...

….and fridges were full of CFCs

It was the best of times

Arranging a mortgage to buy said home was a rather onerous process though.. and the rates..

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keep the bikes cash will be worthless and raw materials like aluminium are going up
invest in a little furnace and refine your own ally

Remind me, who elects the new PM?

The public or course. What kind of banana republic would have them elected by a handful of the population?

Boris getting a kicking from BBC lunchtime news. Absolutely floundering

Astonishingly, Gove does something worthwhile.