We can only hope. I’m slowly making my way through the news section of todays Times, not what I would describe as an anti Tory paper. It’s incredible. A detailed breakdown of the appalling radio performances. The likelihood that £5bn of the massive budget gap will be clawed back through real terms cuts to benefits, a return to Osborne austerity style cuts, while the richest get a £2bn tax cut. The links between Kwarteng and Odey, who continues to bet against the £ and British government debt. Tory MPs giving Truss until November or December. The Germans are launching their own €200bn price cap for energy and explicitly talking up why it’s different to what the British government is doing and why it won’t impact their creditworthiness.
What would happen should there be a GE? Frankly, I don’t care, Goldie. I will never vote Tory again because of the lockdowns etc. and I will never vote Labour or the Nambies. If there’s a noble local issue candidate with nice hair I might give them my X.
I hope they mean the 1st November! It took months to get her into position and a country without a leader; still a country without a leader; then months ahead without one! What a total mess! Oh no, I mean hysteria!
You could start the Good Hair Party, comb the country for candidates and hope they don't get the brush off on the doorstep.
I've come to the same conclusion. Truss is proving to be a complete disaster. Let's have an election and give a proper mandate to the winners. That may restore some confidence in the all powerful money markets. I'm certainly not so opposed to Labour now that the Corbyn factor has been removed, although I don't think it's far beneath the surface. Still can't see me voting for any of them.
I'm a bit of an elections geek and like to check out this website every now and then.... 2025 General Election Polls - Election Polling In just the last week the prediction has gone from a hung parliament with Labour 6 seats short, to a Labour majority of 72!. Polls will move back the other way of course, but a Labour majority looks a real prospect. Where's @ELLERS ?
It’ll make a change the Tories losing an election on their management (ahem!) of the economy and Labour having to sort it out. Part of me awaits with interest to see whether there’s actually any talent amid the Red Ranks… not that there appears to be any in the Blue corner. P.S. I loathe the Nambies. Bloomin’ geography teachers and people that still fill in coupons in magazines (like they did when they were kids, even though there’ll never cut them out and send them off) because it makes them feel important.
Just looked up the shadow cabinet and a lot are unknown quantities. There are some strong performers, though - Yvette Cooper, Ed Miliband, Lisa Nandy, Wes Streeting, Emily Thornberry, Jonathan Ashworth. I'm not convinced by Angela Rayner or Rachel Reeves and most of the others I've never heard of.
Did Stroller really include Thornberry, Cooper and Miliband in a list of strong performers? Here’s my list of QPR achievers: Bosingwa, Cousins and Washington.
I have no idea by what measure one would reach that conclusion other than political bias… but strong performers? Rather amusing.
