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

Once again, there is no bigger prize in world football than being the first team to play Rangers after she goes. https://t.co/eD3e7qdFkh

— Evan (@EvanMcFarlane) September 2, 2022

my current energy bill for my tiny 22 cover restaurant is £2,928 a year. This is my new quote. Unsure what to actually do next but as a business that cost would now be more than I pay in rent and more than I take some months. I simply don’t have the money for this. pic.twitter.com/D8zPbOBNQI

— James Allcock (@jrmallcock) September 2, 2022

"The waiting is almost over. Conservative party members have made their choice. This week a new prime minister will be installed in Downing Street at the most testing time imaginable. Even February 1974, when Harold Wilson came to power and ended Britain’s three-day week, doesn’t really match up to the omni-crisis with which Boris Johnson’s successor has to grapple. Arguably, it is the grimmest inheritance since Winston Churchill’s in May 1940."

Lol @ Liz Truss taking over at this moment.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/04/uk-economic-war-footing-coming-recession

UK Pol twitter losing their minds over this btw.

A surprise applause for Liz Truss from Joe Lycett on #Kuenssberg 😂 pic.twitter.com/3bxX52QP0h

— Charlie Watts (@knowlewester) September 4, 2022

as a comedic performance I found it nauseating, but it's very funny that it fucked up the show and the outraged ukpol response is a good laugh. They were happy to invite comedians like Norcott and Forde to talk garbage on politics shows, but this one went wrong for them, lol.

i've got no previous with Joe Lycett but i think it's going over so well because he's actually mocking the sham of the format rather than doing standard liberal shtick, and that's why they're so radge because you just don't go on TV and call out the Emperor's lack of clothes

Apparently Liz is going to announce Kemi Badenoch as the new education minister.

At this point it could be anyone in any role for all the difference it'll make

oh I dunno, she seems capable and willing to push through a new Section 28 with extra transphobia, for most of the candidates their incompetence & laziness would likely prove more of a barrier.

Kemi Badenoch would be dangerous whatever cabinet job she was given.

busy and ambitious right-wing nutjobs who are out to make a name for themselves are always more dangerous than plodding career pols.

accidentally seeing two young Tories on the BBC discussing the leadership candidates, I don't have the strength for a murderous rampage so I think I just wanna die, which they seem keen to facilitate

Kemi Badenoch would be dangerous whatever cabinet job she was given.

― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Sunday, 4 September 2022 bookmarkflaglink

Nothing special. The attack on education and humanities will carry on whoever is in charge. Britannia Unchained are now in charge.

Looks like Rees-Mogg will also be given a cabinet post.

Or we could burn...stuff...to generate heat.

Martin Lewis’s face when she brings out the fucking tin foil pic.twitter.com/NGW8qou5r9

— James Felton (@JimMFelton) September 5, 2022

Screaming at this Liz Truss sculpture pic.twitter.com/2JKoc1nYob

— Stephen Leng (@steveleng) September 4, 2022

surely that's DomCum in a wig

dunno if that was closer than expected

anyway, here's to the sweet embrace of the apocalypse

I wonder which one of these diabolical freaks the Putin's bot army section of the Tory membership voted for

It was closer than expected.

Closer than the Chilean referendum but less close than Indyref1.

This Morning have started offering to cover people’s energy bills for the next four months on the Spin To Win feature. pic.twitter.com/lEIEKhwGe6

— David Chipakupaku 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇿🇲 (@David_Chippa) September 5, 2022

seeing as just about anyone in the world with money to donate could join the party and vote in this leadership election, then perhaps the Con Home polling was never going to be that accurate

zero mandate. lowest ever margin, never gone through a general.

I heard someone making a Corbyn comparison the other day, as in she's detested by most of the party and popular with the membership. And they also said there will be letters of no confidence in as early as next week.

Melt media dragging Truss's unpopularity, presumably they haven't noticed any of the opinion polls on the public's view of Kieth

Yeah, at least one Tory politician was saying that people had been coming up to him in the street and asking what happened to that nice Boris Johnson, we trust him, he'd see us through this crisis!

It would at least be funny to see him implored to return after a confidence vote and having to explain that he's really sorry but the Shakespeare biography's at quite a delicate stage right now...

was going to put this on the Real England thread but too depressing

#ThisMorning has turned completely dystopian and Black Mirror by offering to pay energy bills as a competition prize. pic.twitter.com/hs1DD6NXbo

— Scott Bryan (@scottygb) September 5, 2022

This was pretty much exactly the result I expected. She was never going to win new supporters on the campaign trail lol, but she had such a formidable advantage to start with there was no pissing it away. Maybe if it had gone on for another three months.

posted at 12.47pm

Who will replace Liz Truss as the next Conservative Party leader?

Kemi Badenoch & Kwasi Kwarteng open as joint favourites.https://t.co/yVRtYvsLMO pic.twitter.com/UNzERL50eE

— Ladbrokes Politics (@LadPolitics) September 5, 2022

Media class watching Boris go pic.twitter.com/MAGRhZXjrC

— Peter G (@pgofton) September 5, 2022

This is a tad premature.

Anyway, this is deffo the Queen’s final Prime Minister

— Jason Okundaye (@jasebyjason) September 5, 2022

its like he didnt even glance at the thread title

or a tad late depending how you look at it

Ok but who is replacing her.

BREAKING: Priti Patel is quitting as Home Secretary and returning to the backbenches

— Sam Lister (@sam_lister_) September 5, 2022

surprise peerage for Eddie Dempsey

rumour is suella braverman for home secretary

lol we’re all gonna die

This news won’t make Back to School headlines today, but it ought to be everywhere: Under this gov, a child born on 5th September 2006 can, if taken into care tonight, be placed in a hostel, caravan/barge with no guaranteed adult supervision. And their 15-year classmate, who is

— Rebekah Pierre (@RebekahPierre92) September 5, 2022

"Same Old Tories" from a rag that will tell you to vote for Kieth.

The Thing (dir: John Carpenter, 1982) pic.twitter.com/GhKzPRF9nb

— Richard Littler (@richard_littler) September 5, 2022

This is just crazy

2/Energy companies would take out government guaranteed loans to bridge the gap between the wholesale price in the market and the fixed price they are charging customers. Those loans would be repaid over the next 10-20 years through supplements to customer bills...

— Simon Jack (@BBCSimonJack) September 6, 2022

I think ILX should start a new UK politics thread today.

why? nothing much has changed.

i think we should await until they own up to the Queen being dead, pace mark s and the ascencion

THIS THREAD is our TRUE QUEEN and can NEVER DIE

maybe the next DCMS minister won't be someone who publically admits to leeching someone else's netflix account. parliament's loss is literature's, er, gain?

Lol was a single hospital built?

Fucksake, Guto. pic.twitter.com/UV0tY59kol

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) September 6, 2022

Start a new thread when we get a new hospital.

I always admired the way he addressed social care issues and built new hospitals in such a very modest + quiet under-the-radar manner, that nobody actually noticed he'd done this.

lol we're all going to dye

Every now and the NY times publishes a voice that cannot be done so over here.

Has anyone come up with an explanation.

Nobody:
Absolutely nobody at all:
The New York Times: Well obviously the only possible inspiration for Liz Truss's policies is Enoch Powell pic.twitter.com/2uXBz7HYO2

— Robert Colvile (@rcolvile) September 6, 2022

this fucking guy

The people at the NYT really are obsessed with denigrating the UK for some unfathomable reason. Any ideas?

— Alan Lyons (@alanlyons33) September 6, 2022