Liz Truss Resigns [Who'll be the next Prime Minister?]

[Dave42]

Originally Posted by Mick

Won’t accept him. General Election now required.

agree but he was right about Truss plans tanking the economy

Any election now would install Labour, with a sizable majority.
Much as I have no love for the current govt, I love the thought of labour even less.

[Ms NTL]

Can we please correct the header to

Truss's troubles

Thanks

Originally Posted by Ms NTL

Can we please correct the header to

Truss's troubles

Thanks

Originally Posted by Chris

It’s already correct - both are acceptable grammar.

That may be true but Id rather avoid using ' in topic titles anyway. Changed.

Conor Burns, minister sacked for misconduct claims, is on track for knighthood from Boris

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/f...ad25d83d95ca92

Conor Burns, the former trade minister sacked over misconduct claims, is set to receive a knighthood in Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list.

Burns, who is a close friend of Johnson and defended him over the partygate scandal, is among a handful of loyalist MPs expected to be honoured by the former prime minister. Liz Truss is thought to be unable to block the nomination...

… Johnson is understood to have nominated up to eight Conservative MPs for peerages in his resignation honours list, prompting frantic efforts by Truss to avoid a series of damaging by-election defeats.

The former prime minister is understood to have rewarded key allies in Westminster with seats in the House of Lords in one of his final acts in No 10.

The move could trigger a row with the Lords authorities because Truss has asked the nominees to defer their appointments until after the next election. The list is understood to include Nadine Dorries, the former culture secretary, and Nigel Adams, former Cabinet Office minister — both Johnson loyalists.

Ok, I think we’ve all had our say … as most of today’s contributions have been off topic, I have deleted quite a lot of posts. Let’s get back to the subject now.

[denphone]

With Truss in charge l think the Conservatives are very deeply up shit creek Seph but if they get rid of her who is going to replace her and if she is replaced the public are very likely to frown on yet another Conservative leadership contest.

[Sephiroth]

Spot on, Den.

[GrimUpNorth]

Unless the polls take a dramatic turn I fear we're going to drift along aimlessly until January 2025. There will be more cock-ups along the way I'm sure but yes I think like the government this thread may have died!

[jfman]

Boy, Seph. They’re in for a tough old election if they can’t reverse the decline as even someone so blue as yourself is being so negative.

[Dave42]

Originally Posted by GrimUpNorth

Unless the polls take a dramatic turn I fear we're going to drift along aimlessly until January 2025. There will be more cock-ups along the way I'm sure but yes I think like the government this thread may have died!

they got to be a general election by December 2024 so can't goto 2025

[jfman]

The Guardian reporting another embarrassing climbdown as rebels threat to vote against rising benefits with earnings instead of inflation.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...s-benefits-cut

[GrimUpNorth]

Originally Posted by Dave42

they got to be a general election by December 2024 so can't goto 2025

Yes, so if she goes full term then with the 25 days from dissolving to election it could be January 25.

[Julian]

Originally Posted by jfman

The Guardian reporting another embarrassing climbdown as rebels threat to vote against rising benefits with earnings instead of inflation.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...s-benefits-cut

Wouldn’t raising benefits by double the rate of wage increases encourage people to not work?

I’m intrigued as to why some baby eating tories want to do just that….

It’s almost like they aren’t tories at all.

[RichardCoulter]

It's easier to live on a wage that goes up less than the rate of inflation than it is for someone on means tested benefits.

Following the freezing of benefits by the Cameron Government, even if benefits are uprated by inflation, the level of benefits will still be less than the poverty line.

On top of this, most of the poorest in society now have to contribute towards their rent and Council Tax (which used to attract a possible 100% rebate) out of money meant for other day to day living expenses.

I think that Truss wanted to do this to effectively claw back the energy help given to those on benefits, whilst those of us that are better off because they are working or have independent means get to keep theirs.

I doubt very much if someone with a wage that goes up by 5% will want to swap places with someone with a benefit going up by 10%. Even if they did decide to stop working on the back of this, they would receive short thrift from the Job Centre. Regulations are in place to deal with people who pack in a job for no good reason or are dismissed for misconduct.