like the queen this thread will never die: in which we ALL resign (ourselves to disgusting miseries to post-boris politics 2022)

that's from Terminator v Lion King: Hasta la Simba

vg+

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Mordaunt 105
Truss 113
Sunak 137

Rishi Sunak - 137 votes (+19)
Liz Truss - 113 votes (+27)

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Penny Mordaunt - 105 votes (+13)

On with the Motley...

The [undisclosed] MP suggested "nasty personal attacks" in the media had cut through and predicted a Rishi Sunak vs Liz Truss contest would damage both candidates and the Conservative Party.

Looking forward to Truss blundering about uncertainly as PM for a short while before losing a snap election to the Melt Pact

So, it's not all over for Nadine Dorries then?

Don't want to say I told you so but...

Give it a year and there will be clamour for Johnson's return as a threat to both floundering Sunak and Truss but especially Truss

Doubt Johnson will be an MP in a year.

given the choice between competent evil and incompetent evil, the latter is always preferable, and you don't get more incompetent evil than Liz.

Yes, I think Boris will be off. Also his seat is far from safe.

Thank you for putting your trust in me.

I’m ready to hit the ground from day one.

Yeah we know

No way Sunak is competent at anything.

obsessed with this liz truss photoshoot where they've styled her as if the joker started shopping in LK bennett pic.twitter.com/dpVqsdzUSN

— Róisín Lanigan (@rosielanners) July 20, 2022

i'm looking forward to the liberal narrative being "well at least she's not Johnson" and "hey maybe Johnson wasn't so bad" all at the same time

Cummings is loving it.

Totally on-brand for ERG to back a truly useless Remainer who did nothing in govt except gabble with hacks cos she’s reassuringly mad behind the eyes.
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— Dominic Cummings (@Dominic2306) July 20, 2022

I'm not sure about "mad", completely vacant yes.

Cummings is hilarious.

Cannot wait for either Sunak or Truss to destroy the state further, and for Reeves to do jack shit about it.

this seems right, I don't think it's even a conscious thing for a lot of these commentators, for them the Corbyn leadership was fundamentally, inherently illegitimate, so attempts to undermine it were legitimate, they're not just being disingenuous, they genuinely find it hard to understand why people would have a problem with it.

― soref, Wednesday, 20 July 2022 bookmarkflaglink

Forde report wouldn't get traction for that reason but also because the left is done. The enemy wasn't going to play fair and being 'vindicated' of this fact offers no comfort when the country has moved on to Truss or Sunak.

It's all to do with breaking the potential teacher, rail and nursing strikes this autumn, as well as containing unrest if Inflation doesn't come down.

the Truss Joker photoshoot looks like it was done by the same person who took all the photos on this thread this genre of promotional photographs employed by british comedians and light entertainment types

mordaunt short...

i think sunak believes the hype that happened when he was all of a sudden new to cabinet and giving away millions of pounds of furlough money. nobody even knew who he was before javid resigned (the first time)

has there ever been a battle of such lightweights?? it really is something

fucking kill me I hate this place

The Home Office has launched a new plan to punish recreational drug use, by forcing people to pay to attend “awareness courses” and confiscating their passports. I wrote a quick piece about why this is stupid and bad for @Dazed https://t.co/v4Nrx9l7L4

— James Greig (@jamesdgreig) July 20, 2022

We haven't even talked about this today.

Nothing surprises me after Grenfell but losing 40+ homes to wildfires in London should be one of those "stop everything, how do we reorganise the system" moments and the fact it isn't shows how screwed politics is.

— Daniel Trilling (@trillingual) July 20, 2022

It’s more “stop everything, let the bodies pile up” iirc

with this fucker and whatever fucker replaces him

look i remember the summer of 76

this morning Nick Robinson was interviewing someone whose house burnt down in Wennington. He was constantly talking over him and then abruptly cut him off when he brought up the overstretched London fire service yesterday fighting multiple fires, which might be a bit of a touchy subject for our government who've closed 40 + fire stations in the last decade.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-25640673

Firefighter Alex Badcock, who had worked at the station for 29 years, broke down in tears and said: "It's a sad, sad day. Boris Johnson [London's Mayor] doesn't know what he's doing."

I've just noticed that latter day wanker Paul Embery is quoted in the article saying, "Mayor Boris Johnson will have blood on his hands."

Just reading this piece. A final failure from Johnson.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/jul/20/empty-promise-the-fantasy-city-within-a-city-that-turned-into-a-ghost-town

> “Each cube is equipped with a multifunctional wall, including a coffee maker, a mini fridge and a day bed,” designed so that workers would never have to leave their 3m x 3m capsule.

student accommodation. or a prison.

Congratulations to @joannaccherry, who has been elected as the new Chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights. pic.twitter.com/DhBhHeIVvU

— UK Parliament Human Rights Committee (@HumanRightsCtte) July 20, 2022

fucking HELL

Joint Committee on *Some* Human Rights

first order of business: hearings on whether trans people are human

human rights for me, being kicked around as a political football for thee

"this was a crime, now it's law"

Today we changed the law to allow businesses impacted by strike action to hire skilled, temporary workers to mitigate disruption.

This was a criminal offence. Now it’s an option for business.

We will not let trade unions grind our economy to a halt.

👉🏾 https://t.co/cxsa02kLdg pic.twitter.com/W5xooxevt6

— Kwasi Kwarteng (@KwasiKwarteng) July 21, 2022

This was a criminal offence. Now it’s an option for business.

tfw the P&L approach to human resources is based, actually

p&o, fuck sake autocorrect

Means the BT strike, which is call centre work, could be fucked. Those jobs can be plausibly replaced at short notice.

At least Labour have their backs, phew

apart from owning the unions i'm not sure that there's much value in big companies bringing in rentascabs to cover odd days, be interesting to see if they bother

Xposts "Profit&Loss" still works in that sentence

btw im still proud of how deeply i fvcked up the title of this thread so everyone can bite me

There might soon be an opportunity for a new thread as predicted 6 months ago:

Fully expecting a future UK politics thread "Stoked for the madness: new Iron Lady - Tanks on the Lawn", covering the Liz Truss years, in due course.

― Luna Schlosser, Tuesday, 11 January 2022 12:34 (six months ago)

can a mod please change miseries to miniseries and see if anyone notices

Mods please rename this thread to: "This was a criminal offence. Now it's an option for business".