Current Affairs

[Kendhni]

Could be the next chancellor

Sunak?????

That would be an interesting possibility ... although Truss will probably want someone that she can control.
At the current rate I think every tory member will have had the opportunity to be a chancellor before the next election ... 4 chancellors in a year.

[Kendhni]

Simon Clark??

[Mervyn and Trish]

Good to see some plain talking honesty without ifs and buts from some members, thank you Barney and Bensham.

Whether or not I agree with you I can respect a clear view. Better than waiting till the outcome and then moaning as has become the norm from some.

Including Sir H, but he does seem to have come up with a few policies since "Not Boris" was no longer enough.

I'm intrigued to see what financial proposals he might come up with though, given he was quoted as saying he would support most of the budget. It was mostly the 45% tax issue he disagreed with and that's gone.

As a floating voter my cross at the next election remains undecided. He still has more to do to convince me.

[Onelife]

Back to the same old, same old fiscal policies that have led us to where we are now? I’ve heard the saying “be careful what you wish for” cast in my direction on several occasions so I will turn that around and just say this…. If we carry on trying to tweak fiscal policy in the direction that political analysts/media think it should go we really should be careful what we wish for.

[Kendhni]

Back to the same old, same old fiscal policies that have led us to where we are now? I’ve heard the saying “be careful what you wish for” cast in my direction on several occasions so I will turn that around and just say this…. If we carry on trying to tweak fiscal policy in the direction that political analysts/media think it should go we really should be careful what we wish for.

Very possible, but is now the right time for major changes? I agree that significant change is needed but that has to wait until the economy has the room to manoeuvre. Maybe slow and steady is better for the current climate ... but start bringing in those big ideas at the earliest?

Anyway it appears that a bottle of Fairy Liquid lasts longer than 3 tory chancellors.

[Onelife]

Looks like I was wrong about Kwarteng being toast by the end of the day. I should have said by the end of lunch!

But he was implementing Truss’s policy, they were in it together. Surely, she should go as well

I do
He’s playing a blinder at the moment and has put together a half decent shadow cabinet.

He’s certainly got some talented people in his shadow cabinet.

I’ll take your word for that Gill but he also has a lot of dead wood which will be looking for top positions…. just think of it… Angela Raynor as Chancellor with Emily Thornbury as home secretary

[Onelife]

So, it’s Hunt for Chancellor with Rishi not far behind him I suspect?

[barney]

Good to see some plain talking honesty without ifs and buts from some members, thank you Barney and Bensham.

Whether or not I agree with you I can respect a clear view. Better than waiting till the outcome and then moaning as has become the norm from some.

Including Sir H, but he does seem to have come up with a few policies since "Not Boris" was no longer enough.

I'm intrigued to see what financial proposals he might come up with though, given he was quoted as saying he would support most of the budget. It was mostly the 45% tax issue he disagreed with and that's gone.

As a floating voter my cross at the next election remains undecided. He still has more to do to convince me.

I actually feel quite sorry for my local MP Selaine Saxby because she is a good, honest local person who has the best interest of her constituents at heart.
I emailed her when Johnson was in charge imploring her to distance herself from the lying toad because of guilt by association.
She sent be a very nice but somewhat cryptic personal reply.
I’ve spoken with her many times during the beach clean but have always avoided politics.
Not the time and not the place.
She will probably lose her job through no fault of her own.
That’s the game I suppose.

[barney]

Looks like I was wrong about Kwarteng being toast by the end of the day. I should have said by the end of lunch!

But he was implementing Truss’s policy, they were in it together. Surely, she should go as well

I do
He’s playing a blinder at the moment and has put together a half decent shadow cabinet.

He’s certainly got some talented people in his shadow cabinet.

I’ll take your word for that Gill but he also has a lot of dead wood which will be looking for top positions…. just think of it… Angela Raynor as Chancellor with Emily Thornbury as home secretary

That won’t happen mate.
Raynor is an elected role by the Party without portfolio and Thornbury will be Attorney General at best.
Starmer can clearly read the room.

[Onelife]

Back to the same old, same old fiscal policies that have led us to where we are now? I’ve heard the saying “be careful what you wish for” cast in my direction on several occasions so I will turn that around and just say this…. If we carry on trying to tweak fiscal policy in the direction that political analysts/media think it should go we really should be careful what we wish for.

Very possible, but is now the right time for major changes? I agree that significant change is needed but that has to wait until the economy has the room to manoeuvre. Maybe slow and steady is better for the current climate ... but start bringing in those big ideas at the earliest?

Anyway it appears that a bottle of Fairy Liquid lasts longer than 3 tory chancellors.

Turn back the clock three weeks and I would say yes, but clearly there was a timing issue with how they went about it.

[Ray B]

So, did she finish her statement Q&A because of the quality of questions as no one asked how the economy is, etc, and what effect she is making on it.

[barney]

So, did she finish her statement Q&A because of the quality of questions as no one asked how the economy is, etc, and what effect she is making on it.

She was well advised Ray.

Less said the better .

I did take enjoyment from how she totally ignored Beth Rigby from Sky News

[Mervyn and Trish]

I liked the way she emphasised Robert Peston's name. Very definitely Pest-on.

[Gill W]

That was a shockingly bad press conference. You could hear her going 'ummmm' as she scanned the room, desperately looking for someone who wouldn't ask a question that was too difficult (which was why she ignored Beth Rigby. If she can't deal with a reporter, how are we to believe that she would deal with Putin.

I don't see how Truss survives this

[Onelife]

I liked the way she emphasised Robert Peston's name. Very definitely Pest-on.

She was certainly on the right track because he definitely Pests-me-off

[Onelife]

That was a shockingly bad press conference. You could hear her going 'ummmm' as she scanned the room, desperately looking for someone who wouldn't ask a question that was too difficult (which was why she ignored Beth Rigby. If she can't deal with a reporter, how are we to believe that she would deal with Putin.

I don't see how Truss survives this

Best avoid rabid hounds who’s only interest is to prise out headline stories in order that they can move on to their next political victim.

[Mervyn and Trish]

Not being in the room I have no idea who she did or didn't ignore. Others clearly had a better view.

However the questions asked were the usual inane rubbish designed to score points rather than elicit any useful information. I don't know why they bothered. Could the dreadful Rigby have been any worse? Actually don't answer that. Among pitiful hacks she's one of the worst.

[Kendhni]

That was a shockingly bad press conference. You could hear her going 'ummmm' as she scanned the room, desperately looking for someone who wouldn't ask a question that was too difficult (which was why she ignored Beth Rigby. If she can't deal with a reporter, how are we to believe that she would deal with Putin.

I like Rigby, she asks the tough questions that weaker journalists avoid ... if that annoys tribal light weights then that is even better.
Truss is no match for Putain ... so let's hope she does not have to square up to him.

I don't see how Truss survives this

She is no Johnson, so she cannot rely on gullibility and bluster.

[Gill W]

Not being in the room I have no idea who she did or didn't ignore. Others clearly had a better view.

However the questions asked were the usual inane rubbish designed to score points rather than elicit any useful information. I don't know why they bothered. Could the dreadful Rigby have been any worse? Actually don't answer that. Among pitiful hacks she's one of the worst.

You didn't miss much. The press conference lasted 8 minutes and Truss took 4 questions before she scuttled off

For a major policy U turn and a sacking of a chancellor, it might be expected that there was more substance.

That's why I think she can't survive this.

Can't believe that people find Beth Rigby to be more of a talking point !

[Kendhni]

… Angela Raynor as Chancellor with Emily Thornbury as home secretary

I dunno, the current lot have set the bar so low that a snail could hurdle over it.

[david63]

Let's hope Hunt does a better job at the Treasury than he did with the NHS

[Mervyn and Trish]

Not being in the room I have no idea who she did or didn't ignore. Others clearly had a better view.

However the questions asked were the usual inane rubbish designed to score points rather than elicit any useful information. I don't know why they bothered. Could the dreadful Rigby have been any worse? Actually don't answer that. Among pitiful hacks she's one of the worst.

You didn't miss much. The press conference lasted 8 minutes and Truss took 4 questions before she scuttled off

For a major policy U turn and a sacking of a chancellor, it might be expected that there was more substance.

That's why I think she can't survive this.

Can't believe that people find Beth Rigby to be more of a talking point !

Sorry, I meant I only saw it on TV, not present personally. My view didn't include Beth Rigby.

[Mervyn and Trish]

Let's hope Hunt does a better job at the Treasury than he did with the NHS

Quite. I wouldn't trust him with my grandchildren's pocket money.

Bring back Boris and Rishi.

[Mervyn and Trish]

Oddly the BBC are saying she took questions from 3 journalists, rather than the 4 we heard.

Sounds like their arithmetic is worse than hers!

[Kendhni]

Let's hope Hunt does a better job at the Treasury than he did with the NHS

Let's see what he has to say first ... it's like chancellors have become more disposable than diapers ... just less environmentally friendly
I wonder what the odds are of u-turn betty making it to Christmas?