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You could post that any day since the mini budget and it would be correct! :D

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She just wants power. Everything else can be ditched.

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that's is true Andrew :rofl: what a shower this lot is just over a month and half was that they didnt work because of the queen dying Sunak told us all what would happen

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But he was implementing her Policies so she is just as culpable as he is.

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Exactly. She will let her friend and book co-author Kwarteng take the blame for her policies which she got elected by Conservative Party members on.

No decency, the honourable thing is for her to resign.

#WorstPMEver

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l hear Jeremy Hunt is being lined up as the new chancellor according to Tom Newton Dunn of TalkTV.

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Couldn’t have happened to a nicer fella. Her next.

The irony of the free market collapsing a Government too committed to the free market. :rofl:

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My portfolio is up 2.94% today, so my losses in the last month are now only 13.28%.

Thanks Liz.

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Downing Street confirms chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng's sacking.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-63221738

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My small stocks and shares isa has jumped a whopping 0.32% over night, now running at a reassuring -19.1% :dozey:. Amazingly it was +4% at the start of this year depite the dreadful incumbents.

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I’m afraid they need to dump Liz PDQ. I saw a headline yesterday, Liz has confidence in Kwasi, so much so that a day later, he’s sacked.

WTF? :wtf:

Keir Starmer should hold no confidence vote, this is a total shit show.

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Yup - my pension drawdown fund dropped around 9% since the mini-budget…

To quote someon on Twitter

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I mean no insult by this, I am gob smacked i never thought I’d read you post this.

A sign of just how much an utter shit show our government is

The problem i have is whilst I don’t believe Labour could do any worse I’m
not convinced they could do any better

There’s no credible alternative, the entire political landscape is scorched

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And would not calling for a no confidence vote get defeated as the Government will be trying to save its own skin.

It would be akin to turkeys voted for Christmas.

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Labour are pretty screwed here anyway, maybe they don't want to take over this mess.

They'll have to spend their entire government trying to fix the economy, the NHS and crime and they'll get kicked out of 5 years because it won't be possible to turn it around in that time. On the Spectator podcast they were talking of some MPs who probably would vote for a no-confidence vote so Labour has to deal with it.

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Please god don’t let it be my local MP (Simon Clarke) as the new chancellor. We will be begging for kwasi back….

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Chief Secretary to the Treasury Chris Philip is also on his way out according to Politics Home.

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Senior Tory MP (not a usual suspect): “she’s finished. It’s just a matter of time. And it’s not going to be much time.”

https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/st...90276188475393

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A group of senior Conservatives have decided to call publicly on Liz Truss to resign following her sacking of Kwasi Kwarteng as chancellor.

The party grandees held their discussions and made their decision to act after reports emerged the prime minister was planning to sack her chancellor, which has since been confirmed.

The senior Tories are planning to speak out next week.

From: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-63221738

She done for ?

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Jeremy Hunt is the new chancellor according to Steven Swinford of The Times.

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a moderate tory cant be any worse

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Is Jeremy Hunt the man who said he would cut corporation tax from 19p to 15p on day one if he became prime minister.

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not sure Den

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Oh good a couple of remainers at the helm, there's hope yet ;) I can see many swivel eyed loons spontaneously combusting :D

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you do know Truss was a remainer too don't you how that work out she a very hard brexiteer now

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U turns seems to be the Truss thing though but ;)

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I can see all the pub quizzes now: Name the five Prime Ministers in post since David Cameron resigned! How many days was Truss in power for?

And a few Conservative supporters finding a positive spin: We've had three female Prime Ministers, the other parties have had none.

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Its a sad sign of how bad they are that I have to agree as well.
She is a fracking disaster, it makes those indiscretions by Boris look insignificant.

The sooner she is gone, the better.

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Yes she's a consistent u turner, as hard as a jellyfish...

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Pre-Brexit vote we had three Chancellors in 19 years.

Post-Brexit vote six in six years.

On that note...

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Hunt confirmed

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Jeremy Hunt made chancellor after Liz Truss sacks Kwasi Kwarteng

https://news.sky.com/story/jeremy-hu...rteng-12720267

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Just three more chancellors till Christmas!

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...8&d=1665752951

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So replacing failure with failure, Hunt was an awful Health Secretary.

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yes and even lots of tories like yourself Mick have realised you can not defend the indefensible any longer think it only OB and papa that try to now and i am not having a go at them

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He certainly was and was slippery and duplicitous with it.

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:D:D:D:D:D

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Harry Cole from theSun, “How come you get to stay?”

Ouch coming from a Conservative leaning paper.

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She’s took 4 questions & ran.

Pathetic.

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she not be in office for much longer

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Utterly out of her depth.

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Exactly if Tory Grandees get their way.

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If she’s so committed she should call a general election. Coward.

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It was uncomfortable to watch her look round the press room, lost, she didn’t have a clue who to turn to.

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I understand Truss has asked OB to step aside from that role. ;)

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What made me laugh was when she stated that she is doing things in the national interest.

A very strange national interest if the Conservatives are always putting their own political interests first.

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Maybe the Conservatives are the nation and we’re just a left leaning snake pit living alongside them.

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Perhaps those are the exact qualities she admires in her colleagues?

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MPs saying they think press conference made things worse. A senior former minister: “she has to go”

https://twitter.com/BethRigby/status...23113843236865

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you were right Den both Hunt and Javid did from the torygraph

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics...sive-tax-cuts/

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I would have more sympathy if she hadn't spent the summer mocking her opponents for their warnings about her plans.

When May's government was falling apart I began to feel some sympathy because you felt she was at least trying to do the right thing in the end.

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:rofl:

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...1&d=1665757135

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I never felt she had this country's interest at the top of her agenda

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And these lot do....

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It's like everyone's dipped into the Celebrations box before you and only the Bounty bars are left. :D

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If that were the case she would have left Parliament and gone on to richer pursuits. The fact she remains on the backbenchers and promotes causes such as domestic violence suggests she does have a sense of public service.

What she believes is in the country's interest may not align with your idea of what that is, it didn't align with mine, but that doesn't mean she wasn't acting in bad faith.

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NEW: Tory backbencher WhatsApp chat leaked

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...1&d=1665758099

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So now corporation tax will rise to 25% while in Ireland it's only 12.5%

that will attract who exactly

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the BOE support ends at 4:30 lets see what markets do then


Quite a few Tory MPs are asking - seemingly seriously - "can she last the weekend?" Truss's massive tax u-turn and sacking of Kwarteng may have stabilised markets to an extent. She has not stabilised her own position as prime minister. Au contraire

https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1580930525640167426

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Will Liz Truss survive longer then a 60p Tesco lettuce.;)

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Daily Star have a livestream of a picture of Truss and a Lettuce :)

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I think The Sun has lost its way in recent years but The Star has definitely found its voice now. :D

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Do we have a mod on standby to change the thread title?

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I suspect Mick will be on hand when the time comes. :D

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We also need a Cable Forum ready to go cabinet ready to take charge.;)

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LATEST: Guido Fawkes on Deputy PM call with Tory MPs, trying to calm waters.

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I'll be minister for trickling down

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This is a serious debate, don’t take the piss. :D

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There's really no need for all the hullabaloo; the Civil Service is still intact. You do all know that it's the CS that really runs the Country don't you? :rolleyes:

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Being in charge of "trickle down", he’d be producing, not taking…

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A Tory source tells me a substantial amount of letters gone into Sir Graham Brady who is apparently away in Athens but returns on Monday. “Wait till he gets back”

https://twitter.com/BethRigby/status...82554588762112

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On page one of this thread you'll see that 11 letters went in on day one of her taking over, speaking of which, aren't there any rules giving her a specific period in office like there are when someone survives a leadership contest?

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A year but I am guessing if the numbers are there the rules could be changed and the men in suits will appear.

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Typical, bozos troubles started when he decided if he didn't like rules he'd change them, it's as if they've learnt nothing from him being forced out of office in disgrace

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At the end of the day, the prime minister is the MP most likely to have the confidence of the House of Commons. Party leadership election rules are secondary.

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NEW: Tory MPs tell Liz “It’s over” reports tomorrow’s I Newspaper:

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...1&d=1665775573

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This no time to call a General Election! Let the Tories hand the mantle of PM to Jacon Rees Mogg and ensure that they will be truly unelectable.:2cents:

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https://www.cableforum.uk/images/local/2022/10/4.jpg

even daily hail are turning


NEW Senior members of the 1922 committee could hold talks this weekend about Liz Truss's leadership.
Some MPs on its 19-strong board want chairman Sir Graham Brady to convene a conference call of the executive tomorrow or Sunday. 1/2
More:

https://twitter.com/christopherhope/...01846965276672

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So Truss sacks the Chancellor who was just enacting her policy. Truss has to go

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Well at least we know the electorate can no longer dictate who their leader is. That after Boris pissed off the establishment and actually took us out of Europe, they got rid of him. But then when their choice of Rishi was dismissed by the membership by a candidate that promised tax cuts and a growth policy.

They decided they had to destroy that, and no we have Hunt, f**king Hunt. Remainer in chief, mr status quo, mr appointed.

Cue, capitulation over the N.I. Issue, cue, subordination to the EU.

Cue a Labour Government that has offered nothing.

**** it, I’m too old to give a shit.

With any luck my mortgage is paid by December, and I can weather the crap for a few years from any government of any colour, but U.K. politics is in the toilet because at least with Blair there was a vision, a belief, a destination.

Starmer offers nothing apart from being not Tory. (Which will be enough)

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Least Labour will get rid o the bedroom tax saving me £40 a month haha

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And there was me (and almost every one else) thinking it was because he lost the confidence of Tory MPs because he lied about knowing, then defended, then tried to change the rules, for someone who was a repeat sexual predator…

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/boris-joh...r-allegations/

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Well done for knowing what everyone else thinks. Quite a gift.

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almost every one else… ;)

So, are you saying he didn’t lie about knowing, then defending, then trying to change the rules, for someone who was a repeat sexual predator, and was then kicked out by his own party’s MPs, or are you just trying to derail the conversation with ad hominem attacks?

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I know that he was thought a liability by the party to whom he had won a massive majority, and was certainly hated by the Remain element of the Tories, but they’ve got their man in position now.

I made no ad hominem attack, I was just praising your self proclaimed mind reading prowess.

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I love Miriam Margolyes :D
https://metro.co.uk/2022/10/15/fk-yo...adio-17569920/

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If it’s any consolation Pierre, I don’t expect he will be in the job very long.

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Watched Jeremy Hunt this morning on Sky news and lost count how many times he said difficult decisions, so I expect a complete change to the promise of no reduction in spending the Liz made a couple of days ago.

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I expect the income tax cut to be 'postponed'.

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I don’t think anyone will be. The only way out for the country is a General Election.

I hate the proposition but the government have proven themselves unfit to govern.

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Radio 4 was better. But only for the contribution from Miriam Margolyes.

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I suppose we’ll just have to stomach Blair 2.0. And see what happens.

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austerity on steroids incoming

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If it’s any consolation GrimUpNorth, I don’t expect he will be in the job very long.

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You could argue we're so far from the last GE team & manifesto, they no longer have a mandate to enact these new policies

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(Insert British exceptionalist trope about unwritten constitution, stability etc)

She's fine as long as she has the support of a majority of MPs. :rofl:

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But the problem is she’s obviously not in charge.

Whoever told her to sack Kwartang and then appoint Chunt*, is in charge. Because it sure as hell wasn’t her.

* silent h.

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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/1...bb7e48c36afcd8

Good - I would rather they raised the tax threshold, which would benefit the low-paid more.

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Predicted by moi a few posts ago.

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At last the truth is out even from the Torygraph
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business...r-right-along/

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Sounds like more tax is expected now, a complete reversal.

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The PM is now Jeremy Hunt, Lizzie's done a runner.