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

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

Her face in the commons as they announced the 45p thing was amazing; she so thought she'd owned the libs for good. That it got wiped off so quickly is a total peach.

The Bank's Independence cost Kwarteng his job. I wonder if they'll make an U-turn on QE though. The pound did fall further after that conference and there is no confidence in the govt as a whole.

But as that Ed Conway thread showed the markets have had cheap money for a long time and weaning them off it is difficult, especially in a recessionary period.

Dead on arrival

Oh MATE imagine the copies you’re going to have in your loft pic.twitter.com/YjQLaxXA80

— Disappointed Optimist (@disappoptimism) October 13, 2022

anyone who has a book published risks this -- the times pulling the rug while yr in production -- but this is extremely funny and i'm glad it happened to him

no solidarity!

he couldn't hide his bitterness at press conf today, even if she lasted till Christmas that's getting pulped so soon

i guess "the times" has a double meaning! i meant events-dear-boy-events rather than murdoch but lol it's both

fuck you harry cole i hope yr dick falls off!

"astonishing rise to power" there is nothing astonishing about factional vote splitting giving it to the biggest idiot in the room.

I like the idea of turbulent times thwarting the relevance of the book A HIDDEN LANDSCAPE ONCE A WEEK before it made it to the presses.

Harry Cole? He's the guy who gave up his girlfriend to Boris for the sake of the Tory Party? Say no fucking more.

As ever, reminder that Harry Cole is 36.

I never post in this thread, since I am supremely unqualified to offer comment, but I have to say this is making me laugh today. So far, the Truss government appears to be a Mel Brooks level farce. Carry on.

Oh it totally is, you might appreciate this
https://i.postimg.cc/sDfD285N/51207145-0-F37-4-D25-B8-D2-5-FD1-D436-EFCA.jpg

Good morning Miriam Margolyes. pic.twitter.com/dbjl57QvVf

— Jim Waterson (@jimwaterson) October 15, 2022

"Who was the shortest serving post-war chancellor, not to die in office"
BZZZZTTT
"Kwarteng, Cambridge"
"Correct" pic.twitter.com/b8C0cpvizu

— Jon de Plume (@MrJonDePlume) October 14, 2022

"Trussterfuck"

Belgium's De Morgen going with 'Trussterfuck' https://t.co/AVJMrbwyJd

— Karl Mathiesen (@KarlMathiesen) October 15, 2022

"Trussterfuck"

Belgium's De Morgen going with 'Trussterfuck' https://t.co/AVJMrbwyJd

— Karl Mathiesen (@KarlMathiesen) October 15, 2022

This is truly the most powerful how it started/how it's going meme in history pic.twitter.com/bvbVFaiYsN

— Chris Terry (@CJTerry) October 14, 2022

gnnnnnngggghhhhhhhhh

Thérèse Coffey, friend of pathogenic multiresistant bacteria, trying to accelerate the end of the antibiotic era here. pic.twitter.com/whEtziRBJW

— Dr Philip Lee (@drphiliplee1) October 15, 2022

wtffff

degenerates

My partner’s entire job is working on ways to combat antibiotic resistance. She literally doesn’t have a fucking clue.