New Tory leader

[IanDavies]

It is my understanding that voting closed at 5pm, 11 minutes ago, and the result will be announced at 12.30pm on Monday (6th September).

But the betting goes on – 1.04 Truss, 22 Sunak.

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[He Didnt Like Ground]

She,s already started on forming her cabinet ….usual failed faces

[moehat]

Coffey as Health secretary from what I’ve heard. Sums up this government nicely.

[Gladiateur]

That’s quite brilliant, Moe. 😂

[He Didnt Like Ground]

Now is the winter of our discontent ….wonder if she,ll do a Sunny Jim and tell us there,s no crisis

[IanDavies]

“Coffey as Health secretary”

A less healthy-looking Health Secretary it would be hard to imagine.

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[Gladiateur]

“wonder if she,ll do a Sunny Jim”

Given that all the Conservative party has had to offer the average voter for the last sixty years is unfounded optimism, I’d say that the odds are pretty short.

[IanDavies]

If Truss wins – as she surely will – it’s hard to see how the parliamentary party can credibly unite behind her.

She seems the preferred option of the members, but she clearly wasn’t at Westminster among her fellow Tory MPs.

She got just 64 votes in the first ballot – 64 out of 331 votes cast!

Then 71, then 86 and she only hit three figures (113) in the final vote.

242 wanted Sunak or Mordaunt instead.

I’m really hoping she does a Johnson and packs out her Cabinet with a blend of Johnson supporters, talentless sycophants who won’t challenge her and right wing dinosaurs like John Redwood.

It’s the Cabinet I’d pick for her if I was Starmer.

And cutting taxes to help poor people who don’t pay tax – extreme ideology, whether left or right – has its limits and, after 43 years of moving to the right since 1979, I’d say this is evidence the bit of elastic being stretched further and further to the right is about to snap.

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[Gladiateur]

Both Truss and Sunak have been on BBC One’s new politics programme this morning.

I’d encourage everyone to catch it on iPlayer; it beggars belief that someone as clueless as Truss is about to become Prime Minister.

When shown a chart that shows that tax cuts would benefit the poorest in society by £7 and the richest by nearly £2,000 she actually said that that is fair. 😳

[IanDavies]

1.03 Truss, 27 Sunak – I’d hazard a guess the vote counting isn’t going too well for Sunak.

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[He Didnt Like Ground]

Glad she,s a Tory ….the rich are her vote , you also need to remember there,s no Brexit to tempt over the undecided or floating voter in the next election , when Truss makes a total balls up of this ….and she will , Starmer just has to make Labour as voteable as possible …. Reading Patel critizing the Met this morn is another example of Tory pot kettle black …please God she,s gone this week

[IanDavies]

1.02 Truss (shortest so far), 38 Sunak.

Far from being “Ready For Rishi,” it doesn’t look like they’ve counted a single vote for him today.

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[BigG]

If your aim was to turn the NHS over to the private sector, I couldn’t imagine a
more suitable appointment.

[IanDavies]

Evens each of two for most seats next Election.

If a moderate like Starmer can’t beat a right-wing PM like Truss for most seats after a Pandemic, a War and a cost of living crisis the answer to which apparently is to cut taxes, leaving the poorest (who don’t even pay taxes) no better off, it’s game over, really.

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[Gladiateur]

“a Pandemic, a War and a cost of living crisis…”

None of which, the Tories will argue, were their fault.

[IanDavies]

Well, tbh, they weren’t – but the fall-out from how they dealt with this torrid trio of events is arguably a different story.

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[Gladiateur]

They could have done a lot more to prevent the cost of living crisis in the first place and the way they’ve dealt with it has been shambolic.

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