Yes, it is.
Liz Truss, we hardly knew ye.
No, really.
Man, Frankie Boyle called it…
The cabbage is still crispy!
Does she cry alone, in the shower? I can’t tell. Someone important had to come to her house to explain “nobody likes you and you’re bad at everything, now fuck off” and if she doesn’t cry in the shower that’s not a normal thing. But I can’t tell.
I was just catching up on most of this thread this morning. Was at post 311 when I got a news alert pop up on my phone that Liz Truss had just resigned and thought, “well, that’s not surprising!”
A week to find a successor! It took them all summer to find Liz. They must have someone lined up, surely. Because they can’t take two candidates to the members, it has to be a coronation. So they’ve got a week to bang teh heads of Braverman, Mordaunt, Sunak and anyone else who is looking at this shitshow and thinking “Yes, this is my moment”.
(Or, you know, call an election. But they won’t do that.)
So, is it going to be a new “Sunak tries to lead the UK” thread? Or “Hunt tries to lead the UK”? “Gove tries to lead the UK?”…who else? Think we can get the full set by Xmas?
45 days in office!
So who next? Apparently it will be decided in just one week. Interesting times.
They should just go with Larry the Cat.
A lot of that time was because they had to take in votes from the wider party (I think postal votes) and Liz and Rishi had to tour the country doing local hustings.
This leadership election is only for the Parliamentary party, which means they should be able to do it pretty quickly because they’re all in the same place. It only took a week or so for the Westminster party to whittle the last lot down the final two before it went to the wider membership.
From her resignation speech:
“This will ensure we remain on a path to deliver our fiscal plans”
They just won’t fucking well be told, will they?
wow! that was quite the wake up alarm. things are going to be a bit wild in england.
shortest serving prime minister!
I’m sure he’s too smart to take this particular poison chalice.
BRADY: So, we’re all agreed.
MORDAUNT: Yes
SUNAK: Yes
SHAPPS: Yes
BRAVERMAN: Tofu-eating wokerati!
BRADY: Sorry?
SUNAK: She means “yes”
BRADY: Good, so for the sake of unity, to try and knit our ruptured party back together, to give us a chance of not being completely wiped out at the next election and also, I suppose, to actually govern this country, all but one of you will pledge your support to the sole candidate.
ALL: …
BRADY: Well, come on, who’s first?
ALL…
ALL:…
BRADY:… Oh, for fuck’s sake.
He’s got more seniority at No. 10 than anyone else, after all.
I don’t know what their fiscal plans are, and neither do they.
Apparently Hunt has said it’s not going to be him in the barrel.
So has Gove (!) and Tom Tugendhat.
The problem is going to be that anyone who wants to take over this circus by definition either underestimates the scale of the crisis or overestimates their own ability to deal with it.