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Truss Told: The Game Is Up
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By the first Tory MP to publicly do so.
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/'The game is up': First Tory publicly says PM should go
Crispin Blunt, the Conservative MP for Reigate, has become the first to publicly state Prime Minister Liz Truss should step aside, saying: "The game is up".
He told Channel 4's Andrew Neil Show that he does not think Ms Truss, who has been in Number 10 for little over a month, can survive the current crisis.
"I think the game is up and it's now a question as to how the succession is managed," he said.
Asked how the party will get rid of her, he said: "If there is such a weight of opinion in the parliamentary party that we have to have a change, then it will be effected.
"Exactly how it is done and exactly under what mechanism... but it will happen."/
Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.
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/'The game is up': First Tory publicly says PM should go
Crispin Blunt, the Conservative MP for Reigate, has become the first to publicly state Prime Minister Liz Truss should step aside, saying: "The game is up".
He told Channel 4's Andrew Neil Show that he does not think Ms Truss, who has been in Number 10 for little over a month, can survive the current crisis.
"I think the game is up and it's now a question as to how the succession is managed," he said.
Asked how the party will get rid of her, he said: "If there is such a weight of opinion in the parliamentary party that we have to have a change, then it will be effected.
"Exactly how it is done and exactly under what mechanism... but it will happen."/
Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.
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Davebro,
//Now, Sunak, the man who was thrust into the limelight as the Covid pandemic hit, has himself quit in exasperation at both the PM’s approach to standards in public life and his tendency to mislead when caught out. It’s a double resignation that is even more of a double whammy than the twin by-election defeats of a week ago.//
Ah, so they resigned for ethical and moral reasons then?
I guess those traits were alien to Johnson?
Dress it up however you like, Johnson caused his own downfall, him alone, his previous behaviour, character and demeanour meant it was always going to end one of two ways: Lies of adultery, the two common denominators throughout his life and career.
Your hero won’t be coming back, ever, best get used to the idea.
The Tories will be out for 10 years, Johnson will quit as an MP shortly anyway, more money and far less work in the after-dinner circuit.
//Now, Sunak, the man who was thrust into the limelight as the Covid pandemic hit, has himself quit in exasperation at both the PM’s approach to standards in public life and his tendency to mislead when caught out. It’s a double resignation that is even more of a double whammy than the twin by-election defeats of a week ago.//
Ah, so they resigned for ethical and moral reasons then?
I guess those traits were alien to Johnson?
Dress it up however you like, Johnson caused his own downfall, him alone, his previous behaviour, character and demeanour meant it was always going to end one of two ways: Lies of adultery, the two common denominators throughout his life and career.
Your hero won’t be coming back, ever, best get used to the idea.
The Tories will be out for 10 years, Johnson will quit as an MP shortly anyway, more money and far less work in the after-dinner circuit.
Latest from the BBC:
//This is a hand to mouth government, living hour by hour.
This is the second yanking forward of this statement - or at least parts of it. Originally it was in the diary for November. Then Halloween. Now today.
To be clear, there still will be a statement in a fortnight’s time, alongside those numbers about the state of the economy from the Office for Budget Responsibility.
If you pick up the hint of panic in the air, you’re right too. Make that a stench.
There’ll even be a statement to camera from the chancellor this morning, so nervous are they of the markets that they dare not leave it until mid-afternoon when he’ll stand up in the Commons.//
Won’t the next major statement be from Sir Graham Brady?
His postbox must look like Harry Styles’s on Valentines Day! Lol
//This is a hand to mouth government, living hour by hour.
This is the second yanking forward of this statement - or at least parts of it. Originally it was in the diary for November. Then Halloween. Now today.
To be clear, there still will be a statement in a fortnight’s time, alongside those numbers about the state of the economy from the Office for Budget Responsibility.
If you pick up the hint of panic in the air, you’re right too. Make that a stench.
There’ll even be a statement to camera from the chancellor this morning, so nervous are they of the markets that they dare not leave it until mid-afternoon when he’ll stand up in the Commons.//
Won’t the next major statement be from Sir Graham Brady?
His postbox must look like Harry Styles’s on Valentines Day! Lol
Almost as damning as this one, Jno:
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// racism... (cut)... chose Truss and not Sunak //
Sunak categorically denied this was a factor.
// racism, the Conservative Party is rife with it //
Yet, well over 100 years ago, the first ethnic Conservative MP to be elected British PM was infact Benjamin Disraeli.
Since the findings of unlawful acts of antisemitism committed within the party, one wonders to what extent this may dent Labour's chances to be elected back into government?
Sunak categorically denied this was a factor.
// racism, the Conservative Party is rife with it //
Yet, well over 100 years ago, the first ethnic Conservative MP to be elected British PM was infact Benjamin Disraeli.
Since the findings of unlawful acts of antisemitism committed within the party, one wonders to what extent this may dent Labour's chances to be elected back into government?
Forgot to add, yes he was Jewish but apart from some Italian ancestry I’m not sure why you would describe him as ‘ethnic’?
Maybe you can elaborate?
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/Published: 31 March 2021
Was Benjamin Disraeli Britain’s first BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) Prime Minister? Clearly not. British Jews are not understood to be BAMEs, in spite of being ethnic minorities and comprising less than 0.5% of the British population. British Jews are some of the largest individual contributors to UK’s GDP, having become prominent in law, politics, business, entertainment and academe.
This paradox is also evident when one identifies Rishi Sunak, Priti Patel, and Suella Braverman as BAMEs. As British Indians, they too are ethnic minorities, constituting just over 2% of the British population, but they don’t exactly constitute a portrait of economic or social deprivation./
Maybe you can elaborate?
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/Published: 31 March 2021
Was Benjamin Disraeli Britain’s first BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) Prime Minister? Clearly not. British Jews are not understood to be BAMEs, in spite of being ethnic minorities and comprising less than 0.5% of the British population. British Jews are some of the largest individual contributors to UK’s GDP, having become prominent in law, politics, business, entertainment and academe.
This paradox is also evident when one identifies Rishi Sunak, Priti Patel, and Suella Braverman as BAMEs. As British Indians, they too are ethnic minorities, constituting just over 2% of the British population, but they don’t exactly constitute a portrait of economic or social deprivation./
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