UK General Discussion: Rishecession

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You'd think they would at least make an effort to poll higher than 200 seats at the next election...

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From this evening's audience:
Truss: Your majesty, it's lovely to see you again.
Charles: So you've come back again
Truss: It's a great pleasure.
Charles: Dear oh dear. Anyway...

https://twitter.com/chrisshipitv/status/1580264025648431105

To think his mother got Churchill as her first Prime Minister and, out of all the flawed mediocrities that have been PM's recently, he gets Truss out of all people. On the bright side, he gets to be the charming one for however short those audiences last.

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Propping up a corpse PM is insane and self-defeating for a number of reasons, but it could well be that Hunt and company don't trust the party's ability to coalesce behind a single, decent replacement (not with Mordaunt and Sunak refusing to budge on who gets to be N°1, and Wallace being on maneuvers), and would certainly not trust the party membership - if it comes to them - being able to excercise caution for five minutes and not elect Braverman in a landslide. If anything, it's certainly not the most delusional of schemes that Conservatives have floated this year alone.

(Can't believe I'm hoping for a Labour government as soon as possible, if only to spare Britain from such a circus)

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Forget leaking, that Cabinet is going to be daily oil spills one after another.

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What's the record for most living former PMs?  Surely we're currently living in it?

1964 - after the General Election - comes to mind as coming somewhat close, as you had Atlee and four consecutive Tory PMs (Churchill, Eden, Macmillan and a recently beaten Douglas Home), but that's still only five.

Though I wouldn't be surprised if there was a higher number at some point c. 1800-1830 due to a number of short-serving (but long-lived) Prime Ministers.

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1992 comparisons are made more absurd by the fact that Sunak is no John Major, whose personal appeal at the time was a plus (and even at the lowest point later on, he still polled better than his party and would-be successors). I mean, can anyone imagine Sunak campaigning in the soapbox?

It also doesn't help that Starmer, unlike Kinnock, is not damaged goods - not yet anyway, and likely not by the time of the election - on account of having been LOTO for too long or having the tabloids mercilessly tear him apart on a regular basis.

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What surprises me is that, until a few months ago, the SNP seemed to be bolstered by a reputation, or at least a perception (however misguided) of ruthlessness and some degree of efficiency/unity, Salmond notwithstanding. And they've suddenly started to run like headless chickens, senior members are risking prison, and the First Minister is in a crusade to piss off as many people as he can in the shortest possible timespan.

The contrast, to me at least, is really jarring to see. Was it always a house of cards and Sturgeon was just that good in masking vulnerabilities?

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Petition to rename thread to "Return of the Pigdiddler".

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Mounting speculation over a snap election (again).

Probably won't amount to anything, but Number 10 isn't ruling it out and ministers are cutting trips short.