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I'll also admit I could have been clearer that I wasn't being entirely serious.

I know, I'm just beyond being prepared to give them any credit at this point.

I'm not sure we can look at Truss appointing an absolute moron as home secretary as idiocy, and Sunak appointing the same absolute moron as a clever strategy.

He was chancellor for over 2 years, it's not like we don't know anything about him. The Conservatives have been in power on their own for 7 years. I'm not falling for that "we're a totally new government here to sort out this mess" shit that they always try and pull whenever they change leader.

It occurred to me that it read strangely, and I decided that it amused me.

Some people might have concerns over the majority being crowded out of opportunities by people who've been given an artificial leg up, and the consequences of that in terms of group think at the top of industries and institutions.

Unless you're planning on having elections every time we have a budget, that's just a fact of life. Any government can change their policies once they're in power, whether for good reasons like a changing economic climate, or bad reasons like the chancellor being sacked and replaced with a...

I've not mentioned Cooper once on this thread, to be clear. I think she's fine. Rayner has never stood for the Labour leadership.

It's absurd in principle. There are deeper questions about why so few women who are deemed to be credible candidates have stood for the leadership over the years in the first place (I was quite fond of Lisa Nandy in 2020 as it happens, but there we go).

The PM is whoever has the confidence of the commons. I don't like the current Conservative party but their MPs are entirely within their rights to select whoever they like as their leader. Let's see how they cock up next :facepalm::shootself

Strictly speaking, Liz Truss was the first woman to be elected by the Conservative membership. The election for Theresa May didn't go past the MPs, and the election for Margaret Thatcher was only between MPs. As far as Labour's concerned, it's absurd that a woman's never been elected and I'm not...

That's two words. But yes, you're right. It's both dangerous and undermines the whole system if people aren't engaging in good faith.

My grandmother would always describe herself as a lifelong Labour supporter. Further questioning would reveal that she had not, at any point in her life, ever voted for a Labour candidate in a general election.

356 Conservative MPs for them to choose from, and they're considering the bloke who was kicked out in disgrace about 3months ago, is under investigation for misleading parliament and has been on holiday for the duration of the current crisis. It does raise the question of why they think we...