UK General Discussion: Rishecession

[afleitch]

[brucejoel99]

Motion to rename the megathread "UK General Discussion: The Hunt for Red October"?

[Torrain]

Truss speech is... very Truss. Full five minutes of "growing up in Leeds made me a libertarian, and I've got a mandate to cut all of the taxes", before she swerved into the u-turn.

[Torrain]

First three questions - from the Telegraph, Sun, and BBC, all asking whether Truss will resign, with BBC's Chris Mason directly asking whether she has any remaining credibility. Followed up by Peston quoting former Conservative chancellors who've said she's 'trashed the party's reputation' on the economy.

Truss hasn't given a straight answer, or admitted any real culpability to any of the issues. She then ran away, having only taken four questions.

[EastAnglianLefty]

Complete with weird looking around before picking out the Telegraph and Sun journos, neither of whom asked particularly helpful questions. Would be an embarrassing performance from a council candidate in an unwinnable ward.

Incidentally, not only is Hunt a poor administrator, but none of his previous ministerial roles have had any connection with the Treasury so he's likely to have a steep learning curve ahead of him.

[Cassius]

[TheTide]

https://twitter.com/AlexofBrown/status/1580919543106482176?s=20&t=ktTc29Uas3...

[Torrain]

https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1580920454713573376

[Blair]

She’s done.

It was awful

[brucejoel99]

https://twitter.com/sofeeeee/status/1580881543819456514

[Mike88]

All of this is just too embarrassing.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I wonder if she'll try to be a limpet now.

[If my soul was made of stone]

https://twitter.com/sofeeeee/status/1580881543819456514

Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

[Blair]

Something that I think speaks to the utter lack of gravitas in Parliament these days compared to in temps jadis is that Hunt is thought of as a party grandee, a greybeard, etc. despite being fifty-five years old and in Parliament since 2005. I've posted in the past about the much shorter Commons tenures of recent PMs, but the fact that he's also younger than Kamala Harris, Mads Mikkelsen, Enrico Letta, and at least a few bikini models really drives the point home.

Yes very much this!

Hunt really should have been sacked for his role in BskyB and his record as health secretary was pretty bad despite a weird revisionist view in Westminster that claimed he was actually a good cabinet minister.

He only really became a thing when he was the last Cameronite standing in 2019 and became the ‘one-nation’ candidate- his flop this summer shows how much MPs think of him.

Its a holding pattern appointment rather than one that would radically reshape the political outlook.

[Torrain]

In order to avoid speaking to reporters as he arrived home Jeremy Hunt briefly shut his wife out of the house.

[Boobs]

Something that I think speaks to the utter lack of gravitas in Parliament these days compared to in temps jadis is that Hunt is thought of as a party grandee, a greybeard, etc. despite being fifty-five years old and in Parliament since 2005. I've posted in the past about the much shorter Commons tenures of recent PMs, but the fact that he's also younger than Kamala Harris, Mads Mikkelsen, Enrico Letta, and at least a few bikini models really drives the point home.

He’s not a grandee, he’s a f—king blandee

[CumbrianLefty]

If the reports that he has missed out on the rumoured peerage are correct, it hasn't been the best ever 24 hours for Paul "AT LAST A REAL TORY BUDGET!" Dacre has it?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

If the reports that he has missed out on the rumoured peerage are correct, it hasn't been the best ever 24 hours for Paul "AT LAST A REAL TORY BUDGET!" Dacre has it?

Obviously the scandal makes giving him a Peerage politically impossible by this point, but, yes, lol.

[All Along The Watchtower]

https://twitter.com/ed_miliband/status/1580931307185401856?s=46&t=YHSGup5mOz...

[Antonio the Sixth]

Jeremy Hunt? Seriously??

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

https://twitter.com/ed_miliband/status/1580931307185401856?s=46&t=YHSGup5mOz...

If this post that I am making right now gets an arbitrary medium-to-high number of recommendations I will change my display name to "Ed Miliband Revenge Tour".

[brucejoel99]

If the subtitle of the first megathread under the next Labour government isn't "Chaos, now (finally!) featuring Ed Miliband", Talk Elections has failed as a community.

[afleitch]

The butterfly effect from eating a bacon sandwich was really something wasn't it.

[Zinneke]

The butterfly effect from eating a bacon sandwich was really something wasn't it.

I know this is a joke, but I would contest the theory that this specific to David Cameron winning and then launching the Brexit debacle...this is a massive structural problem that starts with the way British elites are formed. If the next Labour government doesn't do electoral reform and massively gut the Oxbridge mafia that run Britain, its just going to be the same sociopaths with red rosets who see the Thick of It as a training manual rather than satire.

[brucejoel99]

The butterfly effect from eating a bacon sandwich was really something wasn't it.

One wonders how sooner all of this could've come to an end if the guy who Red Ed told to run for Leader in 2015, one Sir Keith, had taken his advice.