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					Originally Posted by Mr K   |  There’s not a single policy or set of policies that can turn it round for her.
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					Originally Posted by jfman  We were almost certainly heading for a recession and higher interest rates in any case.
 What she’s done is she’s told us once the drawbridge gets pulled up 99% of us we will get poorer and public services will be decimated while they redraw the tax system to benefit the super wealthy. An atrocious look when you’re in a popularity contest.
 |  You’re correct, what she’s done is incompetence on a scale that ought to be impossible at the hands of someone who has managed to attain such high office.  That’s not what Den said though, which was basically a boilerplate objection to Tory government, that just doesn’t stand up to scrutiny in the present circumstances.  A great many Tory parliamentarians (possibly a majority of them) wouldn’t have made the moves she has.  Most of them didn’t even want her to get the job.
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					Originally Posted by jfman  There’s not a single policy or set of policies that can turn it round for her. |  The fact that no one on this forum is defending her anymore tells us all we need to know.
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					Originally Posted by jfman  There’s not a single policy or set of policies that can turn it round for her. |  In a interview with GB News polling expert John Curtice  said that historical precedent means the Conservative party cannot win the next election, and that the challenge facing the government was the combination of both Black Wednesday and the 1976 crisis when the Labour government was forced to seek an IMF bailout.
		 
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					Originally Posted by denphone  In a interview with GB News polling expert John Curtice  said that historical precedent means the Conservative party cannot win the next election, and that the challenge facing the government was the combination of both Black Wednesday and the 1976 crisis when the Labour government was forced to seek an IMF bailout. |  The nearest modern polling equivalent is the Tory wipeout of 1997.  Then, however, Blair and Brown inherited a good and improving economy.  If and when Labour enter office, even if that’s not til 2024 and things have turned a corner, they aren’t going to benefit from anything like as rosy.
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					Originally Posted by 1andrew1  The fact that no one on this forum is defending her anymore tells us all we need to know. |  Give OB a chance ! Like Lizzie he's probably been detained elsewhere today...    |  
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			Liz Truss held crunch talks with Graham Brady before appearing stony-faced in front of MPshttps://www.express.co.uk/news/polit...ory-MPs-latest
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					Originally Posted by papa smurf   |  Not sure what the express is smoking but She was smirking and laughing with I think Simon Clarke when she turned up 
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 Seph, is there a way back for truss ? The tories ? 
 
Would be good to get your thoughts
		 
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		| =mrmistoffelees;36137303<SNIP> Seph, is there a way back for truss ? The tories ?
 
 Would be good to get your thoughts
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 She's a naffing disaster - both for the country and her previously fine (sort of) party.
 
 But, the parliamentary party is tactically split.  They are united in their disgust at Truss but divided on what it looks like if we have yet another PM.
 
 For my part, it's necessary to have another PM (that isn't Starmer or Boris) if only to see us sensibly out to the next election (and defeat) without further wrecking the UK.
 
 
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					Originally Posted by Sephiroth  Honoured that you should seek my thoughts.
 She's a naffing disaster - both for the country and her previously fine (sort of) party.
 
 But, the parliamentary party is tactically split.  They are united in their disgust at Truss but divided on what it looks like if we have yet another PM.
 
 For my part, it's necessary to have another PM (that isn't Starmer or Boris) if only to see us sensibly out to the next election (and defeat) without further wrecking the UK.
 
 |  Always good to get people’s thoughts !! 
 
So if the party is split could a ‘unity’ ticket even work ?
		 
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					Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees  Always good to get people’s thoughts !! 
 So if the party is split could a ‘unity’ ticket even work ?
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 It will be difficult, though.  The only unity I can see, and that is as a total layman, is that the parliamentary party should agree rules that allow no more than three candidates, one nominated by each faction and a short, sharp MP vote.  All over in a couple of days.   This would depend on Truss' resignation which could be orchestrated by the appropriate number of boos!
 
 If only ....
 
 
 
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					Originally Posted by papa smurf  Hunt will not commit to keeping triple lock for pensioners |  Yeah, that might go. It's already something they've suggested they might cut after the next election and it's such an expense they'll be tempted. If only because they've cut elsewhere so much.
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					Originally Posted by Sephiroth  It would have to be a unity ticket if there were to be any chance of governmental stability.
 It will be difficult, though.  The only unity I can see, and that is as a total layman, is that the parliamentary party should agree rules that allow no more than three candidates, one nominated by each faction and a short, sharp MP vote.  All over in a couple of days.   This would depend on Truss' resignation which could be orchestrated by the appropriate number of boos!
 
 If only ....
 
 
 |  And realistically how does this play out ? GE? Truss somehow clings on ? The party manages to unite ?
		 
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