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The latest Truss exit date betting – politicalbetting.com
The latest Truss exit date betting – politicalbetting.com
Well what can you say after such a crazy day when when the the Chancellor of the Exchequer of just 5-weeks was sacked and now all the focus is on Liz Truss’s survival..
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Or rather, given the amount of money I lkost on similar Bojo markets, not disappointed.
The funny thing about that Nick Watt tweet from earlier is it could be read a number of ways. Maybe the senior figures are loyalists of Kwasi Kwarteng who've been enraged by his sacking?
Strayed awfully close to @Leon territory by going to London Zoo to watch the three young tiger cubs.
But have I missed much today?
If Tory MPs want rid of her they need to act now .
Lay the arse off Sunak.
With no likely successor its going to take a while for Conservative MPs to do anything. Plus no one knows how she'll even be removed.
With Christmas approaching it seems like if its it not done by late November its not going to happen till January. So with1.5months left I believe she'll make it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63253948
That surely tells you more about ConHome than who should be PM.
It is not for nothing that miscreants on this site are sent there as a punishment.
She’s just had to sack KK and put in Hunt, who backed Sunak.
Hunt is being now described as the de facto PM in some quarters.
So everything she was chosen for has been proven bollocks.
She has no power in the party.
She isn’t a ring-master like Boris who can get the crowd going whilst the other circus acts actually have a skill.
What is she there for?
@KemiBadenoch
To say it’s been a difficult day would be an understatement. We knew the scale of the challenge this autumn given multiple global headwinds would be unprecedented. Our Prime Minister is working flat out to get the country through these turbulent times. She has my full support.
https://twitter.com/KemiBadenoch/status/1580992999965982720
Some of us are able to peak repeatedly.
All I can think of is that there is a revolt in the grassroots after the coronation of the next leader and Boris 'rides to the rescue.'
There really shouldn't be a fight among rivals of Mordaunt and Sunak. Why not do a vote behind closed doors to see who has most support among MPs and then coalesce around that candidate.
She had a decent record under several Tory PMs going all the way back to Cameron.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/3688602-pentagon-confirms-us-in-talks-with-musks-company-over-funding-ukraines-starlink/
Common sense prevails.
Personally I thought she was a high risk choice, but not in my wildest dreams did I imagine this.
Tony Blair +65
Theresa May +35
David Cameron +31
Gordon Brown +20
John Major +15
Margaret Thatcher +2
Boris Johnson -18
Liz Truss -51
Ipsos-MORI
https://twitter.com/GoodwinMJ/status/1580894324786532353
Golly
Promise the earth, then crash and burn within a month .
https://twitter.com/thehistoryguy/status/1580669653655117824
Personally, I suspect the latter: Truss was the darling of the conservative press & the party membership has been reduced (like most UK political parties) to a rump of dedicated obsessives. Neither of these constituencies were really interested in the quality of the candidates, only in whether they were sufficiently commited to a particular ideological line of thought. Truss had a clear message on that front & therefore won easily.
The left shouldn’t crow about this though: Corbyn was only a few years ago after all. Somehow we need to get back to the point where the parties believe that sense in a politician matters as much or more than ideology. Ideological purity without sense leads to disaster, regardless of which end of the political spectrum we’re talking about.
Its terms might be summarised as: Play nice, or the government will take your toys away from you.
The problem was the 1922 Committee arranged a ten week campaign but sent ballot papers out at the start and encouraged members to vote immediately. This meant that most votes were cast before the campaign was anywhere near finished.
But that is OK because the 1922 had devised a way of letting members alter their votes if they changed their minds during the campaign. But this facility never went live for security reasons.
So basically, the 1922 Committee stuffed things up, and not for the first time.
The price has to be above cost. Which, given Starlink is in expansion phase is greater than subscription costs.
I recall him as being rather dull, and politics back then was relatively dull. It was widely and I think correctly thought that in substance there was little ideological difference between Labour and the Conservatives.
Wilson is rarely viewed as a great PM, although of late history has tended to be kind to him. Kept us out of 'Nam if nothing else.
Firstly. She has managed to somehow become personally responsible for rising mortgage rates. Which have been climbing for a fair while. And would be doing so whatever anyone did.
Secondly. She has managed to implement a huge energy bailout without anyone really noticing, let alone giving her any credit.
Takes rare political skill.
Governor's executive order would allow election supervisors to set up super voting centers.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis used his emergency powers on Thursday to waive state election laws for counties hard hit by Hurricane Ian that are grappling with widespread damages and disruptions.
DeSantis agreed to set aside state laws so election officials in Charlotte, Lee and Sarasota — all of which are Republican strongholds — can consolidate polling places, extend early voting days and make it easier to send mail in ballots to voters to an address that is not listed in voting records.
“Those are, I think, reasonable accommodations that ensure everybody has an opportunity to participate in this November’s election,” said DeSantis during a mid-afternoon press conference in Cape Coral in southwest Florida.
The hurricane slammed into the state two weeks ago, causing catastrophic damage to some areas and leaving more than 100 people dead. The hurricane also destroyed polling places, disrupted mail delivery and forced both voters and poll workers from their homes in counties directly hit by the historic storm.
Many of the steps authorized by DeSantis mirror those that were taken in Florida’s Panhandle in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael in 2018. But they could draw additional scrutiny from those who have made baseless allegations about widespread voter fraud marring the 2020 elections. Some of those who have pushed these allegations, including the conservative group Defend Florida, maintained that people who were voting didn’t live at their listed addresses. . . .
The three counties covered by DeSantis’s executive order are home to more than 1 million active registered voters, with more than 450,000 of them registered as Republicans. Lee County provided a 62,000-vote margin to DeSantis in the 2018 election when he barely edged Democratic nominee Andrew Gillum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GChuKqgvJ5E
Stodge said:
'Kwarteng isn't the first Chancellor to be sacked - Lamont, Howe, Lawson and Sunak were all fired, to name but four.'
Not so. Of those listed only Lamont was sacked - and he was offered the Environmen Dept by Major.
Howe was Chancellor 1979 - 1983 when he became Foreign Secretary post 1983 GE.
Lawson resigned in Autumn 1989 when Thatcher refused to get rid of Alan Walters as her Economic Adviser.
Sunak certainly resigne last July from Johnson's Government within a few minutes of Sajid Javid.
The last genuine dismissal of a Chancellor was by Macmillan in Summer 1962 when he removed Selwyn Lloyd.
If the conservative MPs can't get rid of her now, I do not see that they would before the next general election.
As things are bad, they will wait the longest possible before calling the election, so January 2025 here we come!
And welcome.
They are man-eaters. Don't touch women or children.
The Wilson government shifted us culturally and socially more to the liberal left than any post war government, even if the Attlee government shifted us more left economically
The more obvious link that is staring you in the face is that the only 2 PMs in negative territory, and seriously negative territory at that, have been the 2 foisted upon us by the "Get Brexit Done" election.
I had forgotten that Johnson had been that unpopular a month into his short attempt at running the country.
I wonder if Truss is the only new leader to fail to get any sort of bounce or honeymoon period
The First Minister did try to warn them.
- Scottish first minister said Truss ‘looked a little bit as if she’d swallowed a wasp’ when she told her she had been in Vogue twice
“I remember it because there we were at the world’s biggest climate change conference in Glasgow, world leaders about to arrive. That was the main topic of conversation she was interested in pursuing. And once we’d exhausted that it kind of dried up.”
“I’m sure we’ll have many more conversations about many more substantive things,” she added. “I’m sure she’ll be in Vogue before too long.”
The Guardian has approached Vogue for comment on whether Truss is to appear in a future issue.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/aug/10/nicola-sturgeon-says-liz-truss-asked-her-how-to-get-into-vogue
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172yk6dg2x0bbd
She keeps saying that her main aim in politics is to 'go for growth'. But this is essentially a platitude. And her plan for growth has just failed, before it even got started.
There was no real acknowledgement of the fact she had sacked the chancellor or explanation of the reasons why.
And then she just fell back on robotic answers in the Q and A session.
This is all very annoying for people who are looking to politicians for answers about the cost of living problems. I don't think she can go on for very long, even as a zombie prime minister.