UK General Discussion: Rishecession

[jojoju1998]

Yes, but a competent PM could slow the spread of the poison just enough to make the Tories' path back to power easier. There is a difference between 250 seats at a general and 300.

At the moment a recovery in the polls would get them nowhere near 250. Maybe 150. There is an odd cognitive dissonance at the moment where people are at once recognising the hole the Tories are in, but not at all realising the reality of what that would mean electorally under FPTP in a pretty unpartisan polity.

If there was an election tomorrow the Conservatives could quite credibly end up with 0 seats. Certainly there is a well above 50% chance they would come out behind both the Lib Dems and the SNP.

So basically Liz Truss killed the Queen, the UK Economy, and her party.

[jojoju1998]

Liz Truss is one of the few Prime Ministers that I genuinely believe was an empty-headed person lacking in brain cells. She wasn't robotic like Theresa May because of a mere social awkwardness but because there simply wasn't any extra level of thought beyond the pathetic soundbites.

Absolutely. It's been known for decades but she kept inexplicably being elevated.

The country is reeling from dubious Cameron era selection processes.

She somehow graduated from Oxford with a degree in PPE.

Even from America you could tell during the summer leadership campaign that she didn't seem like the sharpest tool in the shed. It's unusual that she got this far because normally women in politics are held to a much higher standard than men and women who seem incompetent can't get anywhere. I don't understand how she kept moving up, but anyway the new Home Secretary is probably evidence that whatever Conservative Party processes led to Prime Minister Liz Truss have not been changed.

[jojoju1998]

https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1594762181060476928
Hardly surprising, given his wealth/vibe/etc, but plays right into Labour's messaging. I mean, Starmer's wife literally works in the NHS, while Sunak refuses to participate in a single Health Service queue, at a time when the Service is creaking.

Like Truss before him, it's starting to feel like Sunak is writing the opposition's next election campaign adverts himself. The "out of touch" lines, the NHS privatisation attacks, the "too rich to understand the cost-of-living crisis" stuff, it all gets a bit of ammunition out of this.

Didn't the Conservatives call Starmer a out of touch elitist in 2020 ?