These numbers need to be substantially better for the Tories – politicalbetting.com
These numbers need to be substantially better for the Tories – politicalbetting.com
We will have to wait until after the Commons return next week before we can make an assessment of how much trouble LizY is in.
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SNP - 49 (+1)
Labour - 7 (+6)
Lib Dems - 3 (-1)
Tories lose all 6 Scottish Seats.
Labour is coming home
Perhaps they are so old they don't get out much and mix with their own base?
She comes across as hopelessly dire on BBC headline news.
Will that matter?
I think it will.
I would 100% rather a tax cutting PM who is prepared to stand up to NIMBYs, even if they lose the next election, than a tax rising NIMBY pandering one.
The "wrong, wrong, wrong" line is so badly timed and delivered that it is embarrassing.
What the f were the membership thinking?
Been reading more about the 1950s Stone of Destiny heist/repatriation- what an extraordinary story. Going to try to dig out the Robert Carlyle film.
Vous avez une girafe.
That's quite a low bar, surely
Chapeau.
I think we’re into a holding pattern now until the fiscal plan is announced .
Edit: in any case, 'of any significance' is weasel wording. The occupation had enormous political impact, and helped screw things up for the Stuarts for good.
Maybe she should try a Cameron and speak without one?
Just riff from memory.
However, if enough Russian soldiers are shipped home in black bags, or fed into mobile crematoria, or simply abandoned in the field for the Ukrainians to recover and dispose of, then it might eventually dawn on the Russian people that the war isn't a very good idea. I mean, they still won't think they've done anything wrong, but there might at least be a chance of them putting a few bullets in their dictator and throwing in the towel - before half the military age men in Russia either get converted into sunflower fertiliser or emigrate to Turkey.
"It.Is.A.Disgrace" was not a one off. This is how she presents.
He was also a great patron of science and the arts and tried to increase freedom of religion for Roman Catholics and dissenters
It is in interviews that she is awful and stilted. She cannot think on her feet, or understand anyone's views but her own. Not a great advert for Oxford.
That's how revolutions start.
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The Tories can use my song OLD ENGLAND to close their conference if they like. No charge.
Conversely, great charismatic public speaking only gets you so far if you don't have the right policies and your cabinet's full of lightweights and the party's falling apart.
It would be interesting to know how many people have heard her speak at any length (ie more than just a soundbite). I haven't, so inability to give a good speech or interview isn't playing into why I think she's a bad PM...
I wouldn't rush to give them guns either!
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/05/tory-party-drops-strategist-behind-boris-johnsons-2019-election-sweep
First out.....
I reckon people are sick of the divisive politics stuff that consists of "othering" groups, whether it be environmentalists, the BBC, lawyers, the civil service, people on benefits and so on. It's not going to work anymore. It had its heyday when Brexit was going on, but post-Covid it's passé.
The debt issue was a combination of Parliament being unwilling to raise enough money and no Bank of England. Resolved when the Bank was founded in 1694
The Bring Back Boris brigade are on the march.
The story will develop, because he is accused of having won large prizes by cheating (in online games), which is a crime.
A true royalist would say he was king for 36 years. He just wasn't able to exercise power in the kingdom at the time.
Ok, she was awkward and clearly telling them anything they wanted to hear, but I'm prepared to give the members this much credit, that they could hardly have predicted Truss would decide to open her premiership by detonating a landmine in her pocket at first opportunity.
The next election is all about the grey vote. If the Conservatives can consolidate that bloc then they can avoid a catastrophic defeat. If Labour can peel enough oldies off then it's goodnight Vienna.
One thing you can be sure of - if Truss attempts to ram real terms social security cuts through the Commons, whether by limiting the uprating to be in line with earnings or freezing benefits outright - is that the state pension will remain tied to the full rate of inflation. And I'm surprised that the abolition of IHT hasn't been proposed yet as well.
Quite why God has delegated this to the Westminster Parliament is something of a mystery.
We're used to God moving in mysterious ways of course, but his modern methods of procedural arcanery feel somewhat lacking in, ahem, majesty, compared to his early work.
Lest we forget, Fullbrook was part of the consultant team that flew to San Juan in 2020 to present a six-figure election campaign program to the (then) Governor of Puerto Rico (arrested by federal authorities last month) that was paid for by a massive but sadly, and allegedly, illegal campaign contribution.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/03/id-like-inheritance-tax-to-be-abolished-says-uk-treasury-minister
Do voters think Liz Truss is as economically right wing, as Jeremy Corbyn is left?
We asked voters to rank themselves & politicians from 0-10 (10 is 'very right wing')🤓
Both Sunak & Johnson were closer to Con voters than Truss
Starmer = 4, avg voter = 4.9👀
#Peston https://twitter.com/itvpeston/status/1577775320530386944/photo/1
Boris wasn't good either. But he had the hair, the phwoarr noises, the classical tags to cover the low quality of his speeches. (As Clive James once said to Gyles Brandreth, "love the jumpers, they're a neat alternative to an act.") But Truss doesn't even have that.
It is a meaningless rag-bag of people she doesn't like.
Of course, the return of full-scale pitched battles and vast numbers of people perishing horribly is not to be encouraged, so if someone thinks they have a better claim than the King then the matter could be decided by a duel with pugil sticks.
And yes, the Covid experience reminded us that there's more to life than me, the us is also important. Which might be why some on the right found the whole experience so traumatic.
Isaac Levido has been fired; he's a lucky guy. Not necessarily *the* Lucky guy.
My music has just selected Doves - Kingdom of Rust. Seems quite apposite....
If being pro-growth was as widely supported as it is claimed to be we wouldn't be where we are.