It’s a complete mystery why any politician worth his/her salt would look at the way that Truss has treated Kwartang in a futile attempt to apportion blame anywhere other than her doorstep, and thought “I want a piece of the action”
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Given what a mess of temporary PM’s (here I mean May and Johnson, neither lasted the course) and car crash policies (everything from austerity onwards) this series of Tory governments has been hopeless. And now it has descended into farce. Worse than that actually.
And people declaim the European model of coalition governments as weak and unstable. The UK government looks banana republic right now. Bring on proportional representation and end this out of date, unrepresentative and failed first past the post system.
The turnover in cabinet ministers and prime ministers must be on a par with football mangers or energy oligarchs in Russia.
Based on the current turnover if you were to join any of the current political party’s as an apprentice post clerk you could be PM by spring next year if you avoid any sexual misconduct which seems to be par for the course.
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Just shows the mental capacity of those in the government they are literally queuing up to be thrown overboard to the sharks.
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Thing is Liz Truss campaigned to be PM with a set of views which she firmly seems to hold however instead of being in the shadow cabinet/back benches and able to state things with nothing coming of them she was able to wax literal on what she would do it seems her bluff was called and then made PM and so the house of cards fall. Sadly, we are all taking the consequences.
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Well, Ms baldrick Truss also had a cunning plan and that was
to take from the poor and give to the rich. Yet she has - so far,
kept her job…
Hmm.
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Take from the poor and give to rich - and then claim that there would be a trickle back to the poor. If I was not being physically sick at the sheer dumb hypocrisy of Truss & her cronies then I’d be laughing at the idiocy of her ideas.
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Well the reverse Robin Hood is in a blue funk today
whom can she blame now???
I’d love to know how the Tory members who put her in
No10, are feeling tonight…
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I really suspect they are in the mindset of don’t know and don’t care.
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It’s the trickle down effect. She trickled down some sh*te policies, and now everyone is reaping the rewards of them.
No feelings of regret at the mess they’ve helped make?
No realisation that they’ve been conned with pie-in-the-sky promises?
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Nope, no regrets and no realisation. The problem here, with Truss’ empty promises of jam tomorrow with nothing viable to deliver that jam, is the same as the Brexit promises. Those who liked the promise of jam still like the promise of jam. So are still happy how they voted.
Plus the Tory party members are typically asset rich so high interest rates are not a mortgage worry and of course are a savings benefit. So absolutely no regrets.
It’s been tricky, keeping the show going these last few years, hats off to anyone that has tried.
Oh, the show is going okay - but where - has anyone - including
the entire government - got a clue?
Kwasi Kwarteng and Liz Truss were the closest of political allies. In 2012, they helped write Britannia Unchained, a right-leaning, free market prospectus for economic growth. During the Conservative leadership campaign this summer, they worked together on an economic plan to be implemented if she won. They both agreed tweaks were not enough - that radical change was needed. The relationship between 10 and 11 Downing Street is often rocky but this would be different - it was “fully aligned”.
Mr Kwarteng saw his job simply as delivering the prime minister’s vision for a low tax economy. He was known to be politically stubborn; once he had made up his mind he would stick with the plan.
Within days, things began to fall apart. The markets reacted terribly, as did many Conservative MPs. Soon came open revolt, forcing Mr Kwarteng and Ms Truss into their first U-turn. Despite the sense of chaos, the chancellor’s allies insisted he was “very calm” and still working as one with the prime minister.
The mood among Conservative MPs remained mutinous and Ms Truss faced a skewering in a private meeting of the 1922 committee. So even when Mr Kwarteng insisted on Thursday that he was going nowhere, things had already started to change. It had become clear more U-turns were going to be needed. In a meeting with Ms Truss, his cabinet career was brought to a swift end.
By sacrificing her political bedfellow Ms Truss is hoping to save her own job but she may have to ultimately carry the can for the economic strategy she dreamt up with Mr Kwarteng - after just five weeks, lies in pieces. It is hard to think of a political gamble which has backfired more - or a political relationship which has collapsed so soon.
servivit et repulsus est
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Kamikaze Kwasi , crash and burn
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It looks as if she is adept at backstabbing if nothing else.
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Et tu, Caesar?
Shakespeare needs a rewrite.
13:02
Starmer seeks to get Truss to face questions from MPs with urgent question on sacking of Kwasi Kwarteng
The Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, has granted a Commons urgent question to Labour about the sacking of Kwasi Kwarteng. Keir Starmer has tabled the question, and he wants Liz Truss to attend in person to answer.
But there is no guarantee that Truss will appear. She may get another minister to answer on her behalf, like Nadhim Zahawi, the Cabinet Office minister, or Brendan Clarke-Smith, a more junior Cabinet Office minister.
The UQ will come at 3.30pm. Starmer will be speaking, regardless of who is responding for the government. Jeremy Hunt will deliver his statement afterwards, at around 4.30pm.1h ago
13:52
Penny Mordaunt, the leader of the Commons, will respond to the Labour urgent question for Liz Truss on the sacking of Kwasi Kwarteng (see 1.02pm), Tory sources have confirmed. Labour sources say this shows Truss is “frit” (a Lincolnshire word for frightened, used by Margaret Thatcher to taunt Michael Foot in 1983).
It is no surprise that Truss would rather not take questions from Starmer and other MPs on this, but it is not unusual for a prime minister to send someone else to answer an urgent question. It is what normally happens.
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Maybe, at PMQ this week, opposition MP’s ought to set themselves up to ask their questions as normal, but not actually ask anything, stating “your answer is an irrelevance” or similar.