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Originally Posted by Damien
It really is extraordinary that you wonder how it was allowed to happen or at least what has stopped similar things from happening in decades past.
Did the civil service fail here? Is this on the MPs for forgetting that basic competence is a prerequisite for the role as they allow partisanship to overrule everything else? Is it a failure of the electorate to punish candidates who don't seem up to the job?
Watching this clip from the debates can make you angry when Sunak is trying to warn everyone the consequences of her plans and she simply dismisses it all but faced no consequence: https://youtu.be/OtxKAFUo27g?t=147 (2:26 in) |
It’s oft repeated but it’s true: the PM is the person most likely to have the confidence of the House of Commons. Or they are supposed to be. Polling the wider party membership has resulted in a party leader few Tory MPs wanted. They do not have confidence in her as Prime Minister regardless of what they say in public.
The failure here is that - not for the first time in recent years - something that is supposed to operate simply on an acceptance of the “right thing to do” has been upended. Had Johnson simply been replaced with the candidate clearly favoured by the one place it actually matters in our constitution - the House of Commons - then Liz Truss would have got nowhere near Downing Street.