Where's Lizzy?

1966_and_all_that

1966_and_all_that

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So when the Leader of the Opposition raises an urgent question of the Prime Minister about the sacking of her Chancellor of the Exchequer why does she not see fit to turn up to the House to answer it?

According to the Leader of the House, Penny Mordaunt - who stood in for the PM - it was because the PM had urgent business to attend to.

What could this urgent business be? We find out subsequently that she was seeing Sir Graham Brady, Chair of the 1922 Committee. In other words, the urgent business was her trying to save her own neck.....self, self self!
 
I believe the 1922 Committee are meeting on Wednesday where I’m sure this will be on the agenda. Sir GB can’t ignore all the letters of no confidence that have apparently trapped in!
 
The 1922 committee will be waiting for the MPs to agree on a new leader... if ( and it’s a big if) they can agree... LT will be told to resign.... my money is on Ben Wallace.
 
Newholland said:
The 1922 committee will be waiting for the MPs to agree on a new leader... if ( and it’s a big if) they can agree... LT will be told to resign.... my money is on Ben Wallace.
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He didn’t want it enough in the last leadership contest.

I hadn’t realised but he has teenage kids and is separated from his missus. I can understand why you might not your private life scrutinised in those circumstances.

But I think he’d be a safe pair of hands. Pragmatic rather than ideological. Probably has the balls to tell the ERG to feck off and get back in their boxes.

But I’d still prefer a general election.
 
I can't see anyone wanting the job very much as it's a poisoned chalice - anyone serious about doing anything won't want to waste their chance of being PM on a doomed mission like this would appear to be.

They need a Tony Parkes (at t'rovers) type basically who'll do the job but without wanting to go beyond the end of the season.
 
td53 said:
I can't see anyone wanting the job very much as it's a poisoned chalice - anyone serious about doing anything won't want to waste their chance of being PM on a doomed mission like this would appear to be.

They need a Tony Parkes type basically.
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I think Keir Starmer might want the job.

Public service. Good of the country. And all that.

Let’s give it a whirl and see.
 
Mexboroseasider said:
I think Keir Starmer might want the job.

Public service. Good of the country. And all that.

Let’s give it a whirl and see.
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That's not going to happen anytime soon. They'll no more trigger a general election as they'll start singing the red flag and calling each other comrade.

It would've suicide to go into an election right now.

We're likely stuck with some kind of caretaker government for sometime yet.
 
Mexboroseasider said:
He didn’t want it enough in the last leadership contest.

I hadn’t realised but he has teenage kids and is separated from his missus. I can understand why you might not your private life scrutinised in those circumstances.

But I think he’d be a safe pair of hands. Pragmatic rather than ideological. Probably has the balls to tell the ERG to feck off and get back in their boxes.

But I’d still prefer a general election.
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Get that too ... as you say,safe pair of hands ... hold the line...party back him to the GE defeat ... gets his reward in the next phase...?
 
Commentators are saying that Mordaunt did a good job of covering. She seemed to spend most if her time saying, "wait to see what the Chancellor has to say." I can't help believing that Hunt and Mordaunt have taken over the asylum and have drugged Truss into a stupor.
 
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