And in certain eyes any party like that will be tagged as far right for some reason!

He was one of the bullies with the crying mp forced in to the no lobby-looks worried as an inquiry will happen.

Rumours lizzy dripping fired the chief whip in the division lobby.

Having watched Farage this evening getting excited about today's events and drawing his convoluted opinions about where we are and where we are going, I heard many echoes of the ideas from the right which are being posted here.

Whilst much of it was predictable "liberal" bashing, he is though right about something, even if his choice of words isn't.

This isn't a "coup". Coups happen in one move. It is though a rejection of the failed policies of the right of the Tory party and of those who decided to push them hard at an extremely inappropriate time, without any sense of fiscal responsibility because of blind ideology. This wing of the Tory party, and their sympathisers elsewhere, like Farage, have been shown to be as unrealistic as many of us always thought they were.

The ERG are gradually being removed from positions of power and influence and replaced by seasoned professionals with safe hands. In a moment of crisis we need safe hands, ears that hear and minds that reflect before acting.

As this group includes most of those joined at the hip to Brexit because of ideology, and Brexit's failure is also being laid bare at this time of crisis, Farage is also right about something else. We will soon be making our peace with the EU. Not yet actually re-joining, but reducing the rhetoric, offering compromises and building bridges rather than knocking them down.

We are in a very deep hole, which is going to cause most of us pain, and some of us a great deal of pain. The government will get the blame, even for those things it had no control over, and even if the people actually responsible for those they were responsible for, have been replaced.

For those reasons everyone, Farage included, expects a Labour victory at the next GE. I so hope they are wrong and the replacement government which is now being assembled manages to distance itself from the right sufficiently to save the Party and retain power, even if in a coalition. I fear those hopes will be dashed and that the Tories will split. If that happens then my next hope is that the realignment in UK politics I have longed for will finally happen.

Interesting, if difficult, times lie ahead.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

I will NOT be silenced, my students deserve better mods!

This is quite extraordinary.

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For a Tory MP to be speaking in this manner...people saying it is 50-50 whether Truss is still in office by the morning.

But I still struggle around this implosion. All for cutting taxes? And whilst we might think things are mayhem here in the UK, over in France they have some massive problems with fuel shortages (the Guardian was quoting 28% of garage forecourts with no fuel) due to industrial action along with mass protests.

That does not excuse what we are seeing here but the UK is relatively stable. Unemployment at an all time low, last quarters economic growth showed a slight increase. Yes, inflation is just plain daft but that is not uncommon at the moment.

This entire 'crisis' seems manufactured to me but I also concede, that could just be me being me. Enough self-awareness to admit that.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.