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After sacking her Chancellor the money goes on a 2022 Truss exit – politicalbetting.com

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  • stodge said:

    The problem is now there is no policy and the markets have tasted blood. Having undermined and destroyed one Chancellor's policies, they might feel they can do the same with another.

    I wonder what assurances Truss has given Hunt in terms of the relationship between Nos 10 and 11 going forward.
    Hunt will be dominant and she'll have to be submissive.
  • Ishmael_ZIshmael_Z Posts: 8,981

    I take the view that Truss is a bit more secure now than this morning.

    Hunt is deft and competent.

    He'll reassure the markets.

    Bond yields up since Hunt appointmnet, £:$ rose a bit but fell back, ftse100 level on the day.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,063
    DougSeal said:

    How is this Hunt as de facto PM thing going to work? Is Truss going to be wearing an earpiece at PMQs? Will Hunt stand behind her at heads of Government meetings? Who’ll meet the King every week? It’s bonkers.

    I think the idea is a bit overegged to be honest. Yes, May has been forced into a u-turn, of sorts, but it's not like Hunt was proposing his own economic platform, and even if he was he's still nominally aligned to much of what Truss was proposing.

    She's weak, and his stock has just risen as hers has fallen, but I see that as meaning she is vulnerable to every Cabinet Member with their own agenda to backbencher with an axe to grind, not that Hunt will now be able to drive the agenda.

    She's a puppet, but without a puppeteer.
  • ydoethur said:

    Perhaps they thought it was just Bunter?
    It was quite common in nineteenth century fiction, particularly the lower end stuff. Got a feeling it appears in Trilby, but could be wrong.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 75,287

    You can’t judge someone’s Christianity by their actions. We are all sinners in the eyes of the Lord
    Matthew 7:20 suggests otherwise - but then again, 7:1 says don’t do it anyway.
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 54,202
    edited October 2022
    kle4 said:

    Yes, May has been forced into a u-turn, of sorts...

    That's a Freudian slip.

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  • Evening all,

    Strayed awfully close to @Leon territory by going to London Zoo to watch the three young tiger cubs.

    But have I missed much today? :lol:
  • Ishmael_ZIshmael_Z Posts: 8,981
    This thread has

    walked offstage without taking a question from Beth Rigby, and boy is she pissed.

  • nico679nico679 Posts: 6,277
    Even if things improve with Hunt as COE at the end of the day Liz Truss is still PM and will be the focal point at any future GE .

  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,792
    Royale voncing Lizzie would be a jolly jape indeed. Why not? Would be hugely amusing to see Tory MPs voting confidence in her, as TimS says.

    P.S. I quite like Liz on a personal level. She seems quite sweet. But she is so far out of her depth it’s cruel to continue.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,063

    That's a Freudian slip.

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    Nah, I've been copy pasting my posts for years, this is just the first time someone has noticed.
  • NEW THREAD
  • The post-2016 period shows the failure of the settlement that was created beforehand, and that goes back to Tony Blair:

    - Depoliticised governance -> leading to a disconnect between the views of the electorate and the implementation of policy
    - Asymmetric devolution -> boosting the independence movement but leading to a constitutional stalemate
    - Allowing the Euro to proceed without us -> accelerating our political estrangement from the EU project

    Cameron came along and failed to deal with any of them, instead trying to gamble that the status quo would hold and having no answers when it blew up in his face.
    Sure. The list of culprits is endless. May as well include ourselves whilst at it.
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,792
    Foxy said:

    A lot of churches do not accept that episcopal hierarchy as legitimate, so are intrinsically suspicious of that sort of leadership.
    It’s amazing the Church manages to limp on, given how many silly rules and internecine spats it indulges in.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 126,333
    edited October 2022

    It’s amazing the Church manages to limp on, given how many silly rules and internecine spats it indulges in.
    Which Church are you talking about? The Roman Catholic, Pentecostal, Presbyterian and Anglican churches are completely separate denominations and churches
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