Somebody mentioned on TV there was strong support for Cruella in the party ... FIVE people he said! She also made me smile when she chastised Rishi for being an unelected Prime Minister ... seemingly forgetting it also meant she was an unelected Home Secretary.

Denial is not just a river in Egypt

I agree he is wrong, this is not showing leadership, this is showing weakness in the face of opposition from within his own party.

The nonsense is that the Labour Party position on a ceasefire is irrelevant other than pandering to the shouty voices from the SCG wing .

The issue of a ceasefire is not Starmer's problem, his problem is that he is going to flip flop by proxy based on a vote.

Many thousands would now be alive if Hamas had not committed the massacre on October 7th.

The Gaza Palestinians are suffering terribly under the oppression of Hamas.

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

I don't think many even noticed he had.

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

That’s both really funny and unfortunately true at the same time.

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Reading her letter for the first time was more than a little disconcerting, as it is so full of venom. On reflection less so. It fits with what has seemed obvious for a while, that she intends to lead the Tory right, has abandoned any pretence of accommodation with the centre, knows the next GE is lost and is preparing to try to lead the party in opposition.

I have little doubt what she says in her letter is broadly true and will be proved to be true. I can also see why it happened, once the context is recalled and why it has been ignored by Sunak.

Sunak was wanted by central office to become PM so the country could be stabilised by him and Hunt, after the disastrous fiasco of Truss. Truss, of course, being put into place after the previous disaster of Johnson, by the unelected members of the Tory Party. Such a disaster could not be allowed again so the process had to be managed via our elected representatives, the MPs.

So making a deal with enough of them to get Sunak over the line needed to be done, rather than allow a lengthy delay to make a bad situation even worse. Urgent action was needed, and was taken.

Her “demands” to secure her support were of a schoolchild level. The kind you might read here on occasions. They are impractical, naive and undeliverable, especially in the circumstances of a financial crisis when the only focus has to be on stabilising the economy. With the knock-on effects of that and the pandemic to cope with everything else takes a backseat. Unrealistic ideas as solutions for intractable problems got binned the moment Sunak was appointed. He had to reappoint Braverman to avoid too many waves at the time but the tensions were obvious.

Now it’s out in the open and the die has been cast. It’s about time and we will see where this ends.

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'Her “demands” to secure her support were of a schoolchild level. The kind you might read here on occasions. They are impractical, naive and undeliverable, especially in the circumstances of a financial crisis when the only focus has to be on stabilising the economy.'

Let's remember that when I posted that Sunak and Hunt had been flown in under pressure from the markets onto the Tory party this very same poster wrote a long post denying the same.

They are company men and pretty awful.

Edited by Stirlingsays (15 Nov 2023 10.53am)

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