How long for Truss?

Its a cluster muck for sure but can't see a change.

Who wants the job apart from another weasel, are the Tory members to be rusted with voting for Mordant or Sunak this time around if they do even want to stand?

I read that the Greek PM was offering to guide us through communications with the IMF.

So, has the ideological right wing of the party been given a boot then?

They should have a word with the Labour Party, they've probably still got a dusty old phone connected to a hotline to the IMF from the 70s. 

Yeah. It’ll be like one of those Michael Spicer videos.

I think she will be gone by the end of the month, her career in tatters. Even when she was foreign secretary she said some things that were poorly thought out and potentially dangerous. As PM she was visibly drowning under the weight of responsibility and the need to make reasoned judgement. I reckon an internal revolution could see here replaced without a selection process.

If this debacle has taught the political parties anything, it is that the choosing of the leader should be left to the MP's, not the membership. 

I hear there are calls for an early GE to ratify any new change of PM but given the damage done, I can't see any Tory MPs, apart from those looking to retire, who would want to vote for such a thing. God knows what mess we will get in to with a new Labour Government though because there are still lots of Corbyn supporters and they have a borrowing agenda too - just exactly the same agenda as got us in to this current mess. I have also read Nicola Sturgeon's statements about the economic policy for an independent Scotland and they just fill me with fear: the current spending on Social care, public services and pensions in Scotland is higher than the tax take, so exactly how is that circle going to be squared? 

She is 'meeting with Cabinet colleagues' this evening. I rather expect Sir Graham Brady will have handed her the pearl handled revolver this afternoon and the meeting will be to agree upon a damage limitation way forward.

I would expect a coronation of Sunak as PM, Hunt to remain as Chancellor and Mordaunt to get a very senior role.

I will be surprised if she lasts until Monday 24th October. She is completely toast.

In my opinion, he only reason she is probably still in the job is because the Parliamentary Conservative Party hasn't yet worked out how to appoint a new leader completely unopposed. Once the Parliamentary Party has agreed upon their successor as leader, Liz Truss will be told to resign.

Agreed.

As I said in the other thread, the Conservatives may be hopeless right now, but nobody else has any better ideas. Labour are still trading on the fact that the rich can pay for everything and Sturgeon that the English will continue to pay for everything even post independence. 

She’s pretty much a modern day Lady Jane Grey. One assumes it will only be her career that is executed.

The polls amongst the Tory members showed that Mordant would have beaten Sunak if those two had made the run off.  (Mind you, the polls showed Truss would beat Sunak and look how that turned out.)

Which I imagine is an argument that Mordant will use when the inevitable happens and a new leader has to be found without consulting the members. 

I see that Ben Wallace is also being touted as the unity candidate.  

They've got a hard on for him due to him being former military.

Same as they got aroused at Mordaunt's naval past despite it apparently being pretty much a membership of some body rather than anything even remotely active (not in the active duty sense, rather active as in doing something, anything around ships).

Whether he'd be any good or not I have no idea - he's hardly high profile on TV or radio every day. But he is (I think) the only person who has kept "clean" in all the goings on, plus he's been a minister in every government since the coalition in 2010. So it's pretty hard for any wing of the party to be against him.  

He also has a good CV in other ways - retired as a Captain in the Scots Guards (people like an ex military man it seems), was a member of the Scottish Parliament before being elected to his Lancashire seat as an MP (so with that and the Scots Guards he can hardly be accused of being a hated Sassenach). 

I voted Con for a mix of local reasons and the state of the Labour party but after this debacle who is now the least worst option? I still can not bring myself to contemplate voting Labour but I do think that unless there are a series of minor miracles they're a certainty to win a walkover victory. A Rishi (or anyone like him) govt may be what the establishment and markets want until they're annihilated at the next election but my God... IMO... What a choice.