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

Fuck Keir Starmer. And I say that as someone who was initially inclined to cut him some slack. But if he can't come out now and say nurses' wages at the bare minimum should at least keep up with inflation - which would be a completely cost-free thing for him to say politically - then fuck him.

They should be, but they should be in a way where they have to thank him, that's all.

I'd vote for a party whose leader said "whatever pay rise union leaders ask for, that's what they should get". But no such party exists, sadly.

I am so, so sceptical of those who claim this would ruin things. Such people claim that this would mean that we would then massively increase the country's debt, ruining things for future generations.

Yet, hypocritically, those same people are still perfectly happy to continue to burn fossil fuels, and oppose environmental policies, in so doing, going down a route which would ruin things for future generations to a far greater degree than becoming indebted!

What we actually need is a Green/socialist coalition. I am no fan of London mayor Khan, who seems to have achieved very little. But I am totally on his side when he wants to extend the ULEZ, and put a bigger slice of London under the congestion charge, and totally against those numpty London MPs (Labour & Tory) who oppose such a move.

“I believe you have a funny story to tell us Kwasi. Is it true you were Chancellor of the Exchequer for about a month?” pic.twitter.com/gRJSmxhzkA

— Mo' (@mocent0) October 13, 2022

he's definitely going to beat Zahawi's record. It still makes me laugh that this wretched character that I thought was going haunt my mornings and noons for at least a few months was effectively finished after 3 days.

It's like the drum stool in Spinal Tap! Who next I wonder?

Kwarteng about to be sacked is the word on the street... according to some guy from the Times.

Am I so out of touch no it's the entryists who are real

MPs picked her as one of the two candidates and the Mail put its thumb on the scales for her. Are these people simply incapable of looking at the systems they’ve been covering for decades doing what they do, and not deciding the disasters must have been due to elves or aliens. pic.twitter.com/rKQ4kU3WCe

— Flying_Rodent (@flying_rodent) October 14, 2022

xp

EXCLUSIVE:

I'm told that Kwasi Kwarteng is being sacked as Chancellor as Liz Truss prepares to reverse the mini-Budget

Not clear who will be replacing him

Events moving very, very quickly this morning

No 10 not commentinghttps://t.co/LoUAVxD00N

— Steven Swinford (@Steven_Swinford) October 14, 2022

and yet at 8:07 this morning...

A No 10 source tell me the PM thinks the Chancellor is ‘doing an excellent job and they are in lockstep.’

When asked if Liz Truss wants Kwasi Kwarteng to continue in the job in the coming months, the source said ‘yes.’

More @BBCr4today in a mo https://t.co/pesmDwDjjd

— Chris Mason (@ChrisMasonBBC) October 14, 2022

Ooooh, nothing really mat-ters

taking too long to type out "schrodinger's kwarteng" here

Shortest serving chancellors post-war
1. Iain Macleod, 30 days (died in office)
2? Kwasi Kwarteng, 38 days
3. Nadhim Zahawi, 63 days (caretaker)
4. Sajid Javid, 204 days
5. Peter Thorneycroft, 358 days

— Henry Dyer (@Direthoughts) October 14, 2022

1. Iain MacLeod (died in office)
2. Kwasi Kwarteng (died on his arse)

the iain macleod story needs carmody to come back and explain butskellism to us

("one-nation toryism" also died in office after just 30 days)

The death of Macleod gave us... Cecil Parkinson MP.

This is very funny until you realise JRM might be next Chancellor

Interesting replies on why the rental market has gone to the dogs.

Any idea why London rents are going so crazy? My back of envelope numbers suggest at the conventional elasticity, something like 9% of the rental housing stock would have had to come off the market (or demand has gone up very sharply but I don't see why that would have happened)

— Dan Davies (@dsquareddigest) October 13, 2022

(xp) In that case he will smash Iain MacLeod's record because Truss will be gone before the end of the month, possibly long before it.

It's going to be Jeremy Hunt apparently xps

LONG GAME HUNT

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Chancellor of the Exchequer is the only Great Office Of State that Boris Johnson has never held. Appointing him to it would heal wounds in the parliamentary Conservative Party, and demonstrate a pragmatic, One Nation approach which would surely improve market sentiment.

— Dan Davies (@dsquareddigest) October 14, 2022

Is this what it feels like...when Doves cry" etc.

"We have been colleagues and friends for many years. In that time, I have seen your dedication and determination. I believe your vision is the right one. It has been an honour to serve as your first chancellor."

I, too, want the power to humiliate and fire my ex

— Jason Okundaye (@jasebyjason) October 14, 2022

38 day collar

Kwasi was Chancellor for five days less than David Blaine was in that box

— Ed Cumming (@edcumming) October 14, 2022

According to this No10 letter, chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng has been sacked by prime minister Kwasi Kwarteng pic.twitter.com/NpYTYs3Ex4

— Sebastian Payne (@SebastianEPayne) October 14, 2022

Just to add to the above 🤯

Liz Truss has signed off her response to Kwasi Kwarteng's resignation letter as "Kwasi Kwarteng" 🤔 pic.twitter.com/u1Dek7zRD6

— Jon Stone (@joncstone) October 14, 2022

On the positive side this may add a frisson of sadism to the relationship

ah, apparently the recipient at the bottom is a 10 downing street thing? i think i might even have been told that before

Swivel-eyed Jeremy Cunt as the new chancellor - now they're really messing with us

I'm just wondering why on earth you'd take that job, given Truss is unlikely to even make November

Sounds like a version of the tweet by Dan Davies. A thing to unite factions.

Long Game Hunt hoping for the top job when Truss gets the boot?

I guess it makes him de facto Prime Minister as Truss would be in no position to refuse him anything. But it's hardly a situation that's likely to last more than a few weeks, if not days

Long slow calculation going on with the Tories about whether they can replace her without a general election and my instinct is they don't think they can

Pragmatically of course they can but balance of damage is the underlying issue

More of a drive-by than a press conference, liked her style, giving the exact same answer to every question.

*Reeves fainting*

🚨Exclusive: Corporation Tax will **rise** to 25% from 19% this April, Liz Truss will announce at 2pm press conference today.

A huge climb down. Sticking to Rishi Sunak’s original plan. Removes central plank of her leadership bid. More here: https://t.co/tJvN01vDSd

— Ben Riley-Smith (@benrileysmith) October 14, 2022

who was the journalist shouting "aren't you going to say sorry?" as she walked our?

Not the only sacking today:

"A wider mini-reshuffle also saw Chris Philp, Kwarteng’s number two as chief secretary to the Treasury also sacked from the role and moved to the Cabinet Office to become paymaster general. In a direct job swap, Philp is replaced by Edward Argar."

I was going to say they'd have been better off moving Philp to cleaning the Commons' toilets but he'd have fucked that up too.

hunt has p legendary status as a lightning rod so

I was reading about the UK economy earlier and didn't understand it.

Then a friend texted me that KK had been fired.

I said "Perhaps he didn't understand it either", though realise this is not really true.

he obviously didn't agree with Bailey's "kindness of strangers" warning, no this is no ordinary economy he thought, this is the exceptionally great British economy.

who was the journalist shouting "aren't you going to say sorry?" as she walked our?

thought it sounded like a very-upset krishnan guru-murthy

xp edit

it wasn't Bailey, it was that vile man Carney who said it. But these creeps are all the same to me.

straight into my veins

Tory MPs already texting to say they think that Liz Truss's press conference has actually made things worse.

— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) October 14, 2022

profiles in courage

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

— William James (@WJames_Reuters) October 14, 2022

it's been an impressively fast hubris/downfall cycle. I knew she'd be a disaster but wasn't expecting it to happen this fast. She'd probably be gone already if it wasn't for that royal week off.

Yes. Kwarteng would have struggled to reach 4 weeks without that.

she's holding on so she can try to pull off a second regicide and get a killstreak bonus

Critical support