In Liz We Truss
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william_kent
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sufi
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the destruction of the tories could be the only brexit benefit, the sunny dappled uplands turned to scorched earth
. . . unless they're replaced by something worse. There are a lot of angry right wingers out there who don't feel represented.
shakahislop
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i don't think there's even a remote chance of the tories being destroyed and another party taking their place as one of the two parties with a chance of being the government. they'll realign internally, particularly if they have a period out of power, but the electoral system makes it pretty much impossible for either labour or the tories to lose their seat at the table.
shakahislop
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the tory PM would have to call it, and they would be nuts to call an election now, because they would get absolutely smashed. right now is probably the only time you could call an election in the last 12 years where labour would stand a chance of winning enough seats to form a majority government. apart from in the last month or so, when people talk about labour winning, what they mean is that a labour-SNP coalition could win.
Mr. Tea
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Yet a majority of the public support policies that are well to the left of what the Tories are offering or ever would offer, and probably to the left of a lot of Labour's current policies, come to that.
Support for the Tories has collapsed, true, but it's all gone to Labour. Reform or UKIP2.0 or I Can't Believe It's Not The BNP or whatever they're called now are chugging along on 2-5% of the projected popular vote.
Economically, yes.
There was some polling done recently that had the public to the left economically and to the right socially and the social trumping the economic when it came to voting Tory. That's why they're always hammering the culture war stuff. It fires people up in a way economics doesn't.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
I understand, on an intellectual level, that for a general election to happen early, the current government has to call for one. I meant it more in the rhetorical sense of "How can this bunch of clowns, who clearly can't stand each other and are despised even by most of the people who voted for them three years ago, carry on like this when they clearly have no popular mandate or any real legitimacy?"
Leo
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icing on the cake
www.nytimes.com
Liz Truss is eligible for a taxpayer-funded allowance of $129,000 a year for life. (Published 2022)
The departing British leader would be the sixth prime minister to receive the reimbursement for her expenses after leaving office.
Leo
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Liz Truss' "Out Of The Blue" Exit Puts Her Biographers In A Fix. Here's Why
The biographers of Britain's outgoing Prime Minister Liz Truss have suddenly found themselves in strange territory after she announced her resignation yesterday.
www.ndtv.com
