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...^ should have been a warning about Truss. She just can't help herself.

But I do wonder how the UK is going to pick itself back up when there's so many detractors in parliament itching for their own me too moment.

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"her time is up"

'Your time is up'.

That's the phrase Bill Clinton gave to Haiti's junta before the Sept. 19, 1994 invasion.

The honeymoon and QE2 mourning period is over and Truss already has botched bigtime, backpeddling on the promises that got her elected.

Maybe the Brits are going to say, 'Don't Trust the Truss!'.

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The debate about the worst PM in UK history may soon stop becoming a worthwhile debate.

Like most, I was pretty sure she wasn’t PM material, but I didn’t think she’d burn the house down in her first few weeks.

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London bridge falling , falling down,my fair lady

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She isn't toast. She isn't even nuclear waste.

She is Trump-level cooked.

The ONLY way this could get worse for he is if she were in the dock as "less intelligent Voldemort" is likely to be soon.

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Some saying bring back Boris, at least more entertaining. Or the lace-faced Rees-Moggy. Jacob to save the Tory Party and restore a sense of something. Lis misTruss hanging by a thread.

It's what happens when less than 200 voters decide who is the Prime Minister. her election was a Rishi Sunak

snub.

Can she be ousted?

misTruss resigns.

Her cabinet fires her.

Party vote of confidence.

Change of rule

"The 1922 Committee of Conservative lawmakers, which sets the rules for selecting and changing a leader, could remove that restriction if there were sufficient pressure from within the party."

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misTruss has one historical honour. Last PM appointed by QEII.

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Appointed by one monarch resignation accepted by another.

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What is so weird here, is that Truss was honest about what she was going to do if she won the leadership contest - Sunak pointing out that it was economic madness. Yet they went ahead and voted her in. She did it. It was, inevitably, a complete disaster. And now they are blaming her. They need to look in the mirror. The Tories really appear to not know what they are doing.

Labour are in an interesting position. Truss is more likely to be a disaster in power than some alternatives, so keeping her there may be a plan. But there might not be much left to govern when they do get her out. Implementing an IMF bailout is no fun at all. If the Tories can find someone competent, they could start to claw back a bit of Labour's huge lead, and they might have two years to do it - a long time in politics.

The Tories are skating on much thinner ice. They know that they cannot trigger a general election, as they would be wiped out. I'm not sure there is much of a precedent for changing PMs this often. The system was designed on the basis that no party could mess up this much, and so feel the need to do it. As a party they really don't have any credibility any more, which is usually the point at which a general election is inescapable. This might be what the word omnishambles was coined for.

The biggest problem they face is scouring the party for someone to clean up the mess they have made, but it might not be possible to do more than firefight the damage, and the Tory talent puddle may simply be too small. Even dragging ex-ministers back into cabinet posts isn't a particularly good solution - most are ex-ministers for a reason. Traditionally, PMs do not return in the UK, once they have left office, but we are in unexplored territory now. I can't recall a sitting regime being this shambolic before.

To some extent it is mission creep from Brexit. Truss, like Boris with Brexit, had policies that were going to be an economic and political disaster. But Boris's Brexit had already taken Sterling down so far, and damaged so much, that the effects are clearly evident to all with inflation, higher interest rates, staff shortages, shortages of goods, and strikes. Blaming everything on Covid and Putin just isn't working. Throwing more fuel on the fire and pretending it will work out fine is no longer a viable option. The reality - the consequences - have hit home. The crazy policies are now visibly discredited in the everyday experiences of the electorate. But those are the policies that, after several purges, now define the Tory party.

The damage to the UK is inescapable, and it is difficult to see the Tories find a way back from the consequences of their own actions. This is the hard right Tory Brexit camp finally hitting reality. You can sell a crazy policy to gullible people, but that doesn't stop it being crazy. Once the inevitable consequences hit home, you are stuffed. And the Tories are really stuffed.

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misTruss has one historical honour. Last PM appointed by QEII

Could be a good pub quiz question in the future.

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Another good quiz question.

"Will there still be pubs?"

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That big red, “X”, positioned there, from the folded flag, is interesting.

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Is the UK becoming a new Italy or Greece?

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The revolving door of the Tory party leadership.

Ring a ring of roses....

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Ah, the good old british tratition of the annual ousting of the Prime Minister

The monthly change of Chancellor is a new one.

Hope this tradition doesn’t take hold.

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The country/nation has reached a point that the removal/resignation/toppling of PM Truss, take your pick, is the option that will not return stability, confidence, the nation’s trust.

The appointment of economic delinquent, Jeremy Hunt.

Never in a month of Sundays, Jeremy Hunt was never ever considered to be capable of managing such a portfolio. Not even considered to grace any short list.

Review Hunts performance/tenure as a former health secretary!

Jeremy Hunt: New chancellor is the man who ruined the NHS           

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/jeremy-hunt-tory-leadership-boris-johnson-nhs-junior-doctors/

A fair/balanced appraisal of Hunt from Caroline Molloy…

 I spent much of Hunt’s health secretary tenure running openDemocracy’s OurNHS section, investigating what he was really up to. I soon discovered that when you looked past his press releases, you found a very different story – one of missed targets, lengthening waits, crumbling hospitals, missed opportunities, false solutions, funding boosts that vanished under scrutiny, and blaming everyone but himself. This is that story, which was first published on openDemocracy on 13 July 2019.

Please read, because Jeremy Hunt should be locked in a broom cupboard and the key thrown away.

Yet here we are, Hunt is tasked with steering UK economy through a world of woe. This is the best Truss cabinet could come up with.

On Monday when the UK market open, this government is going to find out if BOE intervention is going to steady the ship.

Look, the mini budget opened a can of worms, possibly Pandora box.

This could require cross party solutions, not rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

And yes at some point a general election.   

I rather have a mandated accountable government than a bunch of useless appointees.

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One down, one to go.

Oct. 3  01:19 pm JST Posted in: British PM Truss sticks by economic plan as her party worries  

I think both she and her Chancellor can look forward to having a quiet Xmas at home without the responsibilities of government weighing on their minds.

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It was the Tory MPs who voted for her.

misTruss 57%. Rishi Sunak 43%.

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Why is Britain comparing its prime minister to a lettuce?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/why-is-britain-comparing-its-prime-minister-to-a-lettuce/ar-AA12ZFmL

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I get the feeling that rules be damned (and Wallace is correct, they cannot kick her out for a year under existing rules) she’s gone one way or another.

Letting her run the country would be akin to political mass suicide on a Jonestown scale.

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Truss, who won the Conservative Party leadership last month after promising to slash taxes, is fighting for her political survival after ditching key parts of the program.

The interesting thing is that the UK markets didn’t hit the fan until the mini budget was announced.

But the tax changes were a known thing, weren’t they?

What wasn’t perhaps known was that they would also spending loads of money the UK doesn’t have?

Is it not the spending plans that are the real problem?

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Funny thing I the daily star newspaper

"Will Liz Truss last longer than this head of fresh lettuce "

Should have been a cabbage

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Labour should be careful what they wish for if they are seriously asking for a GE right now - they would almost certainly win it, but it's a poisoned chalice - things aren't going to get any better in the UK for a few years, whoever is in charge. If Labour gets in now, they'll face the cop for a lot of problems that the Tories have caused. Truss's idea of giving more money to the rich was the most idiotic idea at this time - she tried to copy Margaret Thatcher's cure but she's treating a completely different disease! It's not a cost-of-living crisis that the UK faces, it's a crisis of inequality that has got massively worse since 2020 - giving more to the rich won't help in this case because they won't invest in new businesses when the masses have no money to spend in those businesses. Most of the money that has been printed by the government over the last few years has filtered into the hands of the ultra-rich - it is not money that they have earned by hard work, creating jobs and investing in the economy etc. and therefore there should be no complaints if the government does what needs to be done right now - find a way to take that back money from the wealthiest and use it to invest in jobs, health, education and public services. That might come across as "communist" to some, but it isn't meant to be - it is simply to correct the fact that money created by the government has not ended up being distributed fairly.

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@Wallace

It was the conservative party members who voted for her, not the MPs, with a total of 141,725 votes cast (not 200 as you claimed).

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Let's call out the foolish, gullible English electorate that fell for the right-wing bait of Brexit, proving once again that we're the only animal that trips over the same stone twice. Trussy is just the cherry on the Eton Mess. Only the EU can now save the broken-down Brexitannia from sinking beneath the waves of mediocrity and sheer incompetence.

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Hunt on live tv gutting every part of Liz’s “growth” plan (the only growth seemed to be in the use of the word “growth”) by tossing all the tax cuts in the bin (where they belong.)

So remind me, what’s her reason for being PM again, other than to remind us of what level of damage an incompetent Buffon is capable of reaping?

Truss-o-mimics is deader than a recently deceased monarch.

I guess we can see who is actually in charge.

Lizz is along for the ride. She could go on holiday on the SS Titanic and nobody would notice her absence.

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Chancellor Jeremy Hunt reverses 'almost all' mini-Budget tax cuts.... 45 mins ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jRCYNZb7m8

Back to square one........

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Also energy bills support will be reviewed April 2023

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The Tory government have lost control of their ship and will become another Titanic.

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Hunt like a talking head, reciting parrot fashion off a list. What is in store when Hunt is due to face questions from MPs on his fuller statement expected at 3.30pm.

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I would not be shocked if she’s gone by the time we wake in the morning.

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Which Spain would block though.

While Spain has been a little vague at times, they have said they wouldn't oppose Scotland rejoining the EU.

"Spain would have no objection to Scotland rejoining the European Union as an independent nation, as long as the secession process from the United Kingdom was legally binding" (Spanish foreign minister, 2018)

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GBR48

What is so weird here, is that Truss was honest about what she was going to do if she won the leadership contest - Sunak pointing out that it was economic madness. Yet they went ahead and voted her in. She did it. It was, inevitably, a complete disaster. And now they are blaming her. They need to look in the mirror. The Tories really appear to not know what they are doing.

Very true. And as soon as the mini-budget was announced, many were cheering it on as an excellent budget.

That was before the market saw that the emperor had no clothes and in fact tax cuts in the current economic climate was madness. The market isn't always right, but they can know blind folly when they see it.

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Revolving door with prime ministers. Good Gawd, you're looking more like Japan. King Charles will be busy with new PMs queuing up to meet him.

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Truss resigns.

Like I said earlier this month:

I think both she and her Chancellor can look forward to having a quiet Xmas at home without the responsibilities of government weighing on their minds.

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