Originally Posted by Damien

This entire balls up convinces me further that the main political parties should not select their leaders using their membership at all. The MPs have a wider and more representative mandate but Labour and the Tories then leave the final choice to a narrow bunch of wackos.

Truss won the membership by cosplaying as Thatcher and promising the earth to them and she, and they, dismissed any suggestion this wouldn't work from Sunak as doom-mongering. Now the consequences happened and they've taken us all down with them.