About Liz Truss wanting to return to frontline politics – politicalbetting.com
About Liz Truss wanting to return to frontline politics – politicalbetting.com
Only 7% of Britons – including just 9% of Conservatives – think it would be a good thing for Liz Truss to return to frontline politics, following her telling Sky News that she would never rule it outGood thing: 7%Neither a good nor bad thing: 17%Bad thing: 60%yougov.co.uk/topics/polit…
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Labour are facing the prospect of a very divisive time within their ranks
Truss joining Reform would be a catalyst for their polling decline. Opinion on her and the events of Sept Oct 2022 are now fixed.
Ergo Nogo
Nadia Whittome, this is your time
I say no to Reform and Labour, so stay loyal apart from the next GE when I am likely to vote tactically for Plaid to keep labour out
She truly is the people’s princess.
The welfare rebels might.
I don't know who will win the Deputy Leader race, but don't expect the contest to be divisive.
Nominees need 20% of the MPs to support their nominations, so it will be a small field and unlikely to have only a small faction behind them. Likely to be female too. Nandy a possibility as she came close last time.
There is a lot of freedom in a balanced budget, or one in surplus.
It's a bit like your football club re-hiring a manager who brought unmitigated disaster and relegation in the expectation it might be different this time.
I don't know what a "return to frontline politics" looks like. Assuming she can find a constituency who will take her, could she serve in a future Conservative Government - sorry, "future Conservative Government" - I should go on the stage with lines like that.
We already hear plenty from Boris Johnson via his tedious writings in the Mail but most of the other former PMs still with us (and it's a motley crew comprising of Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak - how often have eight former Prime Ministers been alive at the same time?) tend to stay more on the sidelines. I know Cameron was FS in the Sunak Government but the FS role isn't what it was in all honesty as the PM drives most foreign policy for reasons I mentioned yesterday. Sunak is still an MP but keeps in the background.
Some of the above can wear the mantle of "elder statesman" with conviction - certainly true of Major, Blair and Brown as they keep reminding us how much better everything was when they were in charge - certainly the cones hotline pales into insignificance beside our current issues in all fairness.
- Deflates the value of your most valuable asset
- Puts more pressure on your local services
- Wrecks the nice view across the fields
- Puts you at risk of negative equity (if you have a mortgage)
- Is only necessary due to the Boriswave (in the public's eye)
- and even private renters are rightly deeply sceptical that housebuilding will solve the problem - it certainly hasn't in Edinburgh and the Lothians, which has had the fastest housebuilding programme pretty much anywhere. All it's done is facilitate even faster population growth, including students.
I think this is one of those topics where people have a vague sense that housebuilding is good for the country, but the NIMBYism is very strong and frankly rational. It's only in some city centres where you are going to get a degree of local support for it.If I was the suspicious type I might have thought Starmer himself was the lawyer who gave Ange the advice! This has worked out perfectly for him. He's got a shiny new team none of whom eat peas with their knife. From a government POV this couldn't have worked out better. Angie was never up to the job and despite protestations Starmer's much more comfortable without that particular loose cannon swinging around Downing Street.....
....No the story is about Ange herself and the snobbery that brought her down. The Telegraph and Mail have been campaigning against her for months. Pure snobbery. Someone on here yesterday called her 'Gobby'. I'm afraid that's what females from her background who are climbing the ladder are having to put up with.It is so depressing.... Just another scalp for some double barrelled nobody at the Telegraph
She needs to come in leading a formation of war chariots from East Angular down the A11, with her slogan "I see? Nah!" tattooed on her brow, and carrying the heads of her defeated opponents, having taken her Corona Fizzical to prove that she is still Adequately Fizzy Lizzy.
(Who is Liz's enemy today, by the way?)
ETA so for Liz Truss, maybe but not yet.
In the case of Truss, Dorries and Jones, it's 'give us your discredited failures.'
It had also been taught in the 60s and 70s as well - devaluation anyone?
France learned it in the Mitterrand Presidency - the truth is the scope for Govenrments to be "radical" pace Asquith, Attlee and Thatcher has been vastly reduced by globalisation and the new inter dependencies of trade, debt management and so on. That's why Governments end up doing nothing but that's about all they can do.
Every time we discuss trying to reduce the deficit on here for example, we end up with some numpty advocating the wholesale slashing of pensions and benefits - for many people that's all they have. There are many rich pensioners but not all pensioners are rich. They are many poor hard working people but not all working people are poor or work hard - that's the problem when you try policy making by generalisation, misconception or prejudice.
As for who was leaking and to whom. Actually if you follow the timeline, it was spread around a bit, somebody tipped of the Sun / Mail about her house purchase, then the Telegraph about the tax, then the Guardian about the lawyers / conveyancer she has used over the past few years for the trust, her Ashton house sale and the purchase of the house in Hove.
Very few people will have known all these pieces of the jigsaw. But kept laying out the breadcrumbs for the media to follow so they couldn't miss.
I was thinking someone from further north. Phillipson another possibility, or the return of Haigh.
Defecting to RefUK in the hope of getting a peerage is not a pragmatic strategy.
I love wholesome word salad
If the dial does move more favourable to the conservatives here then of course I will vote conservative
Farage's concern would be whether Truss was a threat to his personal position, unlike Nadine Dorries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMiWIH4v9ik&t=1810s
If you are a mediocre Tory councillor in a place like Leics jumping ship to Reform is a way to keep your seat. If a failed Tory ex-MP it is the most likely way back
'Yes, I think we can all agree, Comrade Stalin has a deep understanding of the advantages of an enclosed cabin on the S-65!'
https://x.com/I_amMukhtar/status/1963967994352083282
And at Senedd level in that pair under PR the Tories need to stay ahead of Labour to both guarantee their seat of the 6 and ensure Labour dont get a second seat (which is unlikely anyway). If thats what the primary concern is i mean.
Not that id dream of telling you hiw to vote, i just dint quite get how a tactical Plaid vote helps you
The government's media management, and management of its MPs, is awful. They need to fix this. They need to develop a few simple messages and deliver them effectively. Since Starmer is incapable of the messaging, they need someone else. Lammy isn't it.
And actually in my view somewhat OTT. However, the irony is that she made a career surfing such anger to achieve a high profile, only to fall victim to it herself.
Hanging is too good for her!
* Do we think she meant Farage, Tice, Oakeshott, Anderson and Lowe too?
There were many scum who were very upset with that comparison.
Next GE is a long march away so good luck when it comes with the right pick!
"This is as good as it gets" can either be a statement of despair or contentment, depending on the intonation.
(It's more complicated than that, I know. There's shades from Butler to Gaitskell. There's also the question of how that works when squillionaires opt out of the bits of society that involve them paying taxes but not the bits that allow them to make profits. And some of our current contentment comes from taking from the future, both financially and ecologically. We shouldn't be doing that, really.)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpd9l8d03eeo
https://www.architecture.com/awards-and-competitions-landing-page/awards/riba-regional-awards/riba-south-west-award-winners/2025/hazelmead-bridport-cohousing?srsltid=AfmBOoplvHjcZ0ERK_Ub86e9XzTE1CMliX2bgm88hrWlq0WjXntEutMe
Our Conservative MS is a friend and has been an excellent MS for our constituency and I hope she is re-elected next May
But she didn’t do that, she doubled down and doubled down again for a fortnight, until her position was untenable and it was clear she’d screwed up.
Her longstanding reputation for very unparliamentary language against opponents, calling them scum and demanding resignations for the most minor of perceived infractions, ensured that both they and the media weren’t going to drop the story, and are over the moon today that the massive hypocrite got binned.
Someone ought to be gently but firmly escorting her off the stage.
This was untrue. Over the past few years she has employed 1 law firm and 2 conveyancers. Two came out and said they were never asked nor provided any advice, they knew nothing about the house purchase. The third said we don't provide tax advice and it was revealed on the paperwork, twice, it told her due to their complex tax affairs she needed to get dedicated advice. She didn't do it.
Sad.
He expects Mahmood to be much more forceful on immigration and the boats and McFadden on reigning in the welfare budget
I agree with him and actually quite like both those politicians and appointments
The bigger question is will labour mps go along with these two important ministers
Her problem was she didn't address it immediately and then blamed her solicitors and of course her own track record of condemning this type of behaviour
However, I think her supporters need to wonder who was leaking information not just to the Telegraph and Mail but also the Guardian
In Parliament, your worst enemies sit beside and behind you.
Then what followed sunk her.
She was a disaster in the only job that she wanted. On a personal level I feel quite sorry for her. Speaking to half empty rooms to in Hicksville Indiana then an empty hotel room and emptier minibar. It's not much of a future.
The fact remains she breached the Ministerial Code and that made her position untenable. Whether said Code is fit for purpose is another question - we want to ensure Government is as free as possible from allegations of corruption or inappropriate influence such as from third party lobbying companies - but the notion complex non-Government related private financial transactions need to be held to such a high standard - well, I understand why many would wish our Ministers to be beyond any kind of reproach especially since the Expenses Scandal - doesn't sit well with me and some latitude for genuine errors should exist (as distinct from deliberate and planned tax evasion).