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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/01/when-museums-have-ugly-pasts/603133/
It was after 9pm on Monday when a takeaway was delivered to Portcullis House
The 20 or so senior MPs gathered to discuss more tactics than personalities
Most of those present were supporters of the former chancellor Rishi Sunak"
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11317373/Rebel-MPs-gather-takeaway-curries-seek-new-leader-avert-Tory-wipeout.html
Who's up next? Penny Mordaunt, Rishi Sunak, Larry the Cat?
https://twitter.com/Samfr/status/1580678940850810880
Chope is back on Newsnight but now criticising Truss. We are past the Chope Point where no one has ever ventured before. https://twitter.com/Samfr/status/1580678940850810880
Historians will look back and see a point of origin to the current madness, one that explains how a new prime minister could see her administration fall apart in a matter of weeks.. When the textbooks of the future come to the chapter we are living through, in the autumn of 2022, they will start with the summer of 2016: Brexit and the specific delusion that drove it.
That self-inflicted [economic] contraction helps explain why Britain felt international shocks – surging inflation, for example – harder than most.
Brexit [also] broke the link between governance and reason, between policy and evidence. Until Brexit, politicians only rarely got away with defying the empirical facts or elementary logic.
But there is a less obvious way in which Brexit made the current great unravelling a political death foretold…call it the sovereignty delusion. The three weeks since Kwarteng delivered his mini-budget have seen the shattering of that delusion. For Truss and her now ex-chancellor were given the rudest of reminders that in our interdependent world there is no such thing as pure, untrammelled sovereignty.
As several economists have noted, Truss was acting as if Britain were the US, issuer of the world’s reserve currency, with markets falling over themselves to lend it money. Like Anthony Eden before her, she could not accept that Britain’s place is not what it was: it can never be sovereign like a king in a fairytale, able to bend the world to his will. That kind of sovereignty was always a fantasy, one that both fed Brexit and was fed by it.
She is finished, a hollow husk of a prime minister. But this is bigger than that. The Brexit bubble has burst. The country has seen that the Tory hallucination of an island able to command the tides was no more than a fever dream, and a dangerous one at that. We can pronounce Trussonomics dead. Bring on the day we can say the same of the delusion that spawned it.
Changing economic course, at least to some degree, hives off some of the dissenters. Yes, a lot will still be worried about the utterly dreadful polling situation and Truss's ability to change that, but it prevents the discontented from forming a unified mass. She's bought herself some time, and the reaction to force things further tonight is the firmer opponents realising that the play for time may have worked and trying to prevent that.
Hunt is now chancellor and Truss has given one of the worst press conferences in the entire history of the genre, shortly after sending Kwarteng a letter “deeply respect[ing]” his decision to get knifed by her.
As for the people who got us here, I must say I think of them increasingly often – those 81,000 Conservative party members who voted for Truss, and who are out there somewhere, right now, keeping their little heads down. But they walk among us. Maybe one of them is at a water cooler or a Zoom meeting near you.
The thought of things happening in the same way again, ever, is simply too much. Ideally, these triennially calamitous Conservative leadership contests will henceforth be run like one of those international elections in a fledgling democracy, when voters’ fingers are dipped in indelible ink. That way when you’re having drinks after work and Steve from HR is feebly going, “Yeah, what a mess” but not quite meeting your eye, you can look down at his stained forefinger and deal with him accordingly.
Belarus has been shipping material out into Russia these last weeks.
https://twitter.com/MotolkoHelp/status/1580990412440731648?t=kOA-py48umoKRzfEkDiSHQ&s=19
Mobilising in Belarus is likely to be the end of Lukashenko, and the beginning of free Belarus
Tory MPs: form a new backbench Committe that is.
[Brady] said that after Theresa May won a no-confidence vote launched against her by a bigger margin, the committee did consider changing the rules but eventually decided against doing so.
“I’ve reflected quite a lot on this because of the amount of speculation [there] has been in the media,” Brady continued. “Of course, it is technically possible that laws can be changed in the future. And it’s possible that rules can be changed in the future. But I think it’s important we say the rule that is in place, and is likely to remain in place is that there is a year’s period of grace following a confidence vote.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jun/09/brady-wont-rule-out-another-no-confidence-vote-on-johnson-within-a-year
There was a lot of talk about elections to the Board of the 1922 being critical as 'change' candidates could permit a further challenge to Boris.
Is it possible to blackball someone at the Carlton once he's already a member?
Assuming here that Brady is a member.
Surely some Tory MPs must have a sense of humour!
The economy is falling apart.
Some people seem to think its just to keep the Ukrainians looking north and hold down some military resources from the south. But maybe they'll try to push forward?
I do like that it's not just a nickname, but that the party constitution defines the Conservative Private Members Committee to be referenced as the 1922 committee. Why even have it formally be called the former then?
https://www.politico.eu/article/liz-truss-prime-minister-uk-conservative-party-finished/
The 2022 committee
As if the EU would have us back after the bad blood created by May, Boris and the Tory Party.....
https://twitter.com/troovus/status/1580929494294007808?s=46&t=76VIMW4vJJbPX2vxqUFXwA
China because BMW doesn’t have a suitable electric platform for such a small car and Great Wall were happy to provide one
However, I do also think it is clear many of our institutions are rocking, our economy seems to be worse off than comparator nations too often for liking, and our government is increasingly unable to grasp what the problems are, or how to fix them, being prone to ideological distraction and self indulgence.
https://twitter.com/carlgardner/status/1110988069300256768
https://twitter.com/IsabelOakeshott/status/1581047561019760640
Moderates + Christian Democrats + Liberals minority government,
with C&S from the Sweden Democrats.
Law n Order
New nuclear power
But no weakening of generous unemployment schemes
It looks extremely shaky from Day One. The Liberals are the weakest link, in more ways than one.
A modest little pad on St-Jean-Cap- Ferrat once owned by Leopold the second.
They lived well the Belgiums.
Andrew Mitchell
Caroline Nokes
Charles Walker
Damian Green
Damian Hinds
David Davis
Desmond Swayne
Dominic Raab
George Eustice
George Freeman
Grant Shapps
Greg Hands
Julian Smith
Liam Fox
Mark Harper
Matt Hancock
Mel Stride
Michael Ellis
Michael Gove
Oliver Dowden
Peter Bottomley
Rob Halfon
Robert Jenrick
Stephen Crabb
Stephen Hammond
Steve Barclay
Steve Brine
Theresa Villiers
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ffqemZ-YOi7AvAw8HbxmMd0vIbsOXLZ7KpAmNQPD2r8/edit#gid=1717238762
Quite simply because I see no credible exit plan. Other than a snap general election.
I've already joined the union though, for the first time in my life. I've never had the opportunity before, well I'm sure I could have joined a union, but it wouldn't have had anything to do with my work or have helped me.
I don't think I feel any more socialist
Whilst Truss would I am sure love to point to her election by party members over any party establishment, has there been any influx of supporters? Or is it simply that her faction won?
What are we now? Our decline has been rapid, and even the Tories have forgotten Thatcher's words. They no longer believe that Britain has those sterling qualities. They no longer believe that this generation can match their grandfathers and great grandfathers in ability, in courage and in resolution.
Instead we're treated to a Tory Party at the end of their tether and Tory supporters believing that, because their party has not come to a solution, there are no solutions to be had. They are resigned to a shit future, because their party is shit. I believe that there are alternatives and that the UK can, once again, find a role in the world.
I actually think Starmer gets this and I think he can offer that alternative.
Also, I'm pretty drunk.
(I walked past her house a couple of times this evening. No lights on... guess she's in London or on the IoW.)
If IDS had been PM, would he have lasted longer than Truss?
At present I can forgive those who think we are neither progressing, or even managing our decline well.
The UK is a top 10 global economy, a G7 and G20 economy and a permanent member of the UN Security Council. We may not have an Empire or be a superpower anymore but we are not an impoverished, tiny backwater either!!
Freedland is a typical defeatist Remoaner of the worst kind
I walk eleven to twelve miles and climb, according to my phone, between sixty-four and eighty-six flights of stairs a day
There's a street called Kandahar (hence Himalayas) where every single house on the top side of the street has at least fifteen steps up to the front door. There's one house on the bottom side
The street before it again has big staircases on one side, followed by long uphill pathways, about 50 metres, up to each house
My legs should look great