The Tory Chief Whip Hasresigned...can Truss Carry On?

[sp1814]

https://www.itv.com/news/2022-10-19/conservative-chief-whip-resigns-in-further-blow-to-pm-liz-truss

[Old_Geezer]

Chief and deputy.
Talk about a falling government.

[tiggerblue10]

Good grief! I wonder who else will resign before the week is out.

[jno]

there seems to be some suggestion that Tory MPs were physically dragged into the chamber to vote against a fracking ban, which wouldn't reflect too well on a chief whip. But it's just as contentious a topic among Tories as among Labour; country landowners don't want their land subjected to constant tremors.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/19/fracking-caused-daily-earthquakes-at-uks-only-active-site

It's one of those votes with no winners. I'd not be surprised if the whips had had enough.

[drmorgans]

Week? Day, possibly hour.

[Peter Pedant]

o god this is like a prolonged suicide attempt

[Tilly2]

It's getting boring now.

[jno]

oooh you are so blase, Tilly. The show is only beginning. Later tonight Mr Gove will demonstrate, ten summersets he'll undertake on solid ground. Having been some days in preparation, a splendid time is guaranteed for all.

[jim360]

And tonight Ms Truss is dropping the ball!

[jno]

nice one

[Paigntonian]

Dreadful. Embarrassing.

[jno]

ah, they've de-resigned, Paigntonian, though quite where that will get them or their party is hard to say. To this outsider it just looks more chaotic then ever.

[douglas9401]

Boris Johnson may be reclassified as a gateway drug.

[FatticusInch]

Charles Walker sums up the mood of the country, not just his Parliamentary Party.

https://metro.co.uk/video/tory-mp-charles-walker-deems-government-chaos-absolute-disgrace-2798545/

Truss won’t make it to Friday, even if she does the letters to Brady over the weekend will look like an explosion in a confetti factory.

[JimF]

Lynne loved Runrig. This is for her. I miss her.

[JimF]

Wrong thread. Sorry.

[archibaldy]

They are painfully stringing it out, exactly like the two months it took to get her in.

[ichkeria]

"
Wrong thread. Sorry. "

And yet somehow apt :-) Didn't Runrig do a song that started "It's all over now ..." ? (The Precious Years)

[Gromit]

I have never seen a party so unelectable.
The next 20 months will be like watching someone die of an incurable disease.

[naomi24]

I honestly don't think it can go on for another 20 months, Gromit. It's gone too far.

[Peter Pedant]

let me clarify in the grandest AB manner
today he has unresigned hasnt he

erm a case of never was.... we are told