Liz Truss Resigns [Who'll be the next Prime Minister?] - Page 86

**Damien** · 19-10-2022, 17:43

What on earth could the honest mistake be to fire her in this situation?

Dave42 · 19-10-2022, 17:47

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What on earth could the honest mistake be to fire her in this situation?

she shared some secure information on a private phone sky news reporting Beth Rigby now saying she broke ministerial code

**Damien** · 19-10-2022, 17:50

So is that the real reason or was it a handy excuse to get rid of someone who was essentially pursuing her own policies against No 10?

ianch99 · 19-10-2022, 17:52

More chaos:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1582729593244372992

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We’ve reached the stage at which a Tory MP is going to vote for the fracking he opposes, but only because he doesn’t want to lose the Conservative whip, as this would invalidate his letter demanding the Tory leader be replaced because of her incompetence.

1andrew1 · 19-10-2022, 17:52

Cancelling all my streaming services! Far more drama available by watching No 10's antics than the streamers can hope to match!

Dave42 · 19-10-2022, 17:54

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Cancelling all my streaming services! Far more drama available by watching No 10's antics than the streamers can hope to match!

you could be onto something there Andrew

jfman · 19-10-2022, 17:54

Grant Shapps hahaha

**Damien** · 19-10-2022, 17:55

I don't think I've ever seen a UK government in total disarray and chaos like this before. May had lost authority, Boris Johnson as well and Brown lost an election but this is just crazy. A complete breakdown, a budget reversed two weeks later, cabinet ministers gone, MPs threatened with the whip being withdrawn for voting for their own manifesto (which said no fracking).

Every part of it seems to be collapsing.

denphone · 19-10-2022, 17:59

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Cancelling all my streaming services! Far more drama available by watching No 10's antics than the streamers can hope to match!

My running news feed needs to catch its breath as it is complaining that it has been overworked lately.

Dave42 · 19-10-2022, 18:00

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I don't think I've ever seen a UK government in total disarray and chaos like this before. May had lost authority, Boris Johnson as well and Brown lost an election but this is just crazy. A complete breakdown, a budget reversed two weeks later, cabinet ministers gone, MPs threatened with the whip being withdrawn for voting for their own manifesto (which said no fracking).

Every part of it seems to be collapsing.

imagine what all the right wing media would be doing if it was a labour government in this chaos

**Chris** · 19-10-2022, 18:01

We have a government whose pronouncements nobody believes, whose ministers nobody expects to remain in post, led by a prime minister nobody expects to be in charge 12 weeks from now (assuming of course she's really in charge even today).

It's beyond absurd and if Liz Truss has any reverence whatsoever for this country and its institutions she must now submit to the judgment of the electorate.

1andrew1 · 19-10-2022, 18:02

Barbed resignation letter from Braverman here!

https://twitter.com/SuellaBraverman/...736128/photo/1

**Damien** · 19-10-2022, 18:05

Sir Humphrey would never have let this happen

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imagine what all the right wing media would be doing if it was a labour government in this chaos

I don't think the coverage would be much different.

This is a complete meltdown, there isn't any way to spin it and The Sun/The Mail aren't trying.

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Resignation letter from Braverman here
https://twitter.com/SuellaBraverman/...736128/photo/1

I think this lends more fuel to the fire that this was more of an excuse to get rid of a cabinet minister.

1andrew1 · 19-10-2022, 18:10

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I think this lends more fuel to the fire that this was more of an excuse to get rid of a cabinet minister.

Alternatively, some say that she made the small error on purpose in order to resign and put the boot into Truss.

**Chris** · 19-10-2022, 18:12

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Alternatively, some say that she made the small error on purpose in order to resign and put the boot into Truss.

That's certainly my reading of it. It's barely a resigning matter and looks to me like she did the bare minimum she had to do to have an excuse to resign and write a heavily ironic letter about doing the honourable thing.