Liz Truss resigns as British PM

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vandermolen

October 20, 2022, 04:39:57 AM
Unprecedented political chaos over here!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news
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October 20, 2022, 04:45:11 AM
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October 20, 2022, 04:55:58 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on October 20, 2022, 04:39:57 AM
Unprecedented political chaos over here!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news

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DaveF

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October 20, 2022, 04:56:57 AM Last Edit: October 20, 2022, 05:02:03 AM by DaveF
I like the following from the BBC News website:

"The second shortest serving PM was George Canning, who served for 119 days after dying in 1827."

Hadn't anyone noticed?  Or perhaps that's the answer - at least a dead PM would have less ability to cause chaos.

Edit - they've now amended it to "before" - rotten spoilsports.
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October 20, 2022, 05:11:24 AM
Quote from: DaveF on October 20, 2022, 04:56:57 AM
I like the following from the BBC News website:

"The second shortest serving PM was George Canning, who served for 119 days after dying in 1827."

Hadn't anyone noticed?  Or perhaps that's the answer - at least a dead PM would have less ability to cause chaos.

Edit - they've now amended it to "before" - rotten spoilsports.

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Brian

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October 20, 2022, 05:25:06 AM
The Tories need to call an election as soon as possible so that they can slink off to a corner, figure out their position, and blame everything that happens on Labour for a while.

I saw the value of the pound shot up this morning.

The new erato

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October 20, 2022, 05:51:58 AM
Quote from: Brian on October 20, 2022, 05:25:06 AM
The Tories need to call an election as soon as possible so that they can slink off to a corner, figure out their position, and blame everything that happens on Labour for a while.

I saw the value of the pound shot up this morning.
Of course ir did. A defect PM is better than a functioning Tory one.

Mandryka

#8
October 20, 2022, 06:02:15 AM
Boris Johnson will stand.
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October 20, 2022, 07:04:05 AM
Quote from: Brian on October 20, 2022, 05:25:06 AM
The Tories need to call an election as soon as possible so that they can slink off to a corner, figure out their position, and blame everything that happens on Labour for a while.

I saw the value of the pound shot up this morning.

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vandermolen

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October 20, 2022, 07:17:00 AM
Quote from: DaveF on October 20, 2022, 04:56:57 AM
I like the following from the BBC News website:

"The second shortest serving PM was George Canning, who served for 119 days after dying in 1827."

Hadn't anyone noticed?  Or perhaps that's the answer - at least a dead PM would have less ability to cause chaos.

Edit - they've now amended it to "before" - rotten spoilsports.
Very funny!
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

71 dB

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October 20, 2022, 07:42:01 AM Last Edit: October 20, 2022, 07:44:35 AM by 71 dB
Quote from: vandermolen on October 20, 2022, 04:39:57 AM
Unprecedented political chaos over here!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news

It was clear from the start that she can't be the PM for long. She is power-hungry, but clueless, entitled, dumb and incompetent. She was worse option than Sunak who would have been also bad. At the moment there are only bad options for the UK. It is a limbo that will continue until the next election.   :(
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October 20, 2022, 07:57:12 AM
Too late,  the damage has been done,  it will take years to recover...   :blank:

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October 20, 2022, 08:04:21 AM
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on October 20, 2022, 07:57:12 AM
Too late,  the damage has been done,  it will take years to recover...   :blank:

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Somehow even we Americans cannot gloat, since the idea of a leader resigning when they fail is inconceivable in the USA.  :(

Todd

#15
October 20, 2022, 08:09:24 AM
So who will replace Ms Truss?  Given the trainwreck of BoJo and Truss this year, can things get worse?  Never, ever say things can't get worse.  See Liz Truss.
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JBS

#16
October 20, 2022, 08:20:33 AM
Is there any mechanism for forcing a general election? Or does the UK have to stumble through a chain of Tory politicians because the Tory MPs figure the party is already at rock bottom and the longer they can delay an election, the better for them.

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DaveF

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October 20, 2022, 09:40:23 AM
Quote from: JBS on October 20, 2022, 08:20:33 AM
Is there any mechanism for forcing a general election?

As I understand it, a government can only be ejected from office if it loses a vote of confidence in the Commons.  Given that the current government enjoys something like a 70-seat majority, as well as having the support of the Irish Unionist parties, this can't realistically happen, and has only worked in the past when minority administrations have been in place.
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Todd

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October 20, 2022, 10:14:30 AM
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LKB

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October 20, 2022, 10:45:48 AM
Quote from: Brian on October 20, 2022, 08:04:21 AM
Somehow even we Americans cannot gloat, since the idea of a leader resigning when they fail is inconceivable in the USA.  :(

Balls. Nixon resigned, l watched him do so on live TV in August 1974. ( Granted, his " failure " was in avoiding responsibility and he was far from contrite at the time. )

At least the UK have never endured a Donald Trump as PM. As embarrassing as Johnson may have been at times, he ultimately respected the succession process and hasn't been whining about it.

I don't know what's in store for the British, but l have no doubt they'll eventually attain normalcy.  ;)
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