OT - Going, going, gone? Jockstrap elastic has been known to perish

Truss to give a statement in Downing Street around 13:30 UK time today.

Is she U turning on her comment yesterday at PMQ that she's a fighter, not a quitter?

She's gone. New leadership contest to be completed inside a week, probably only open to MPs. Resigned as leader of the Toraidhe but staying on as PM until the new leader is announced.

Answer to my question in the OP is, yes, U turn. She's a quitter.

So Truss claims the record KK could only dream of, smashing Baillie Vass' record by a country mile.

It would be so funny to see BJ come back as a unifying force while a compromise candidate is found. Maybe Mr Bobby or Peppa Pig?

Amazing thing is, had she managed to stick around for another 16 days she would have qualified for the PM's pension of £115,000 a year for life.

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Originally Posted by Geoff Parkstone

It would be so funny to see BJ come back as a unifying force while a compromise candidate is found.

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Yep...it’d be hysterical...I mean the return of a disgraced PM who, as a proven liar with dreadful judgement, lost the support of 148 of his own MP’s, saw most of his Cabinet resign all of four months ago, and remains subject to enquiry...what could possibly go wrong?

Wouldn’t make the UK look a bigger laughing stock to the rest of the world at all would it?

I wonder if she will get a Blair? Elevation to the peerage as an ex PM. Seems like all former PMs automatically get one - so that's May, BoJo and Truss all lined up for snout-in-the-trough City. All of a sudden a mere lying warmongerer seems almost worthy

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Originally Posted by MadAmster

Amazing thing is, had she managed to stick around for another 16 days she would have qualified for the PM's pension of £115,000 a year for life.

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But with her economic policy it would be worthless in a couple of years unless index linked. Speaking of which, now would be a good time to scrap the index linking of public sector pensions.

Liking this quote from Iain Banks, ‘I’m not arguing there are no decent people in the Tory Party, but they’re like bits of sweet corn in a turd. Technically they’ve kept their integrity but they’re still embedded in sh1t.’

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Originally Posted by ramAnag

Liking this quote from Iain Banks, ‘I’m not arguing there are no decent people in the Tory Party, but they’re like bits of sweet corn in a turd. Technically they’ve kept their integrity but they’re still embedded in sh1t.’

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Actually Hoi says that to Paul in Iain Banks' final novel "The Quarry" that was written about 10 years ago, so hardly relevant to today's brood of incompetents. It is important to distinguish between the writer and the character when reading novels, as surely the ex English Master in you must recognise. Unless you really believe that all comments in books reflect the author's beliefs.

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Originally Posted by Geoff Parkstone

Actually Hoi says that to Paul in Iain Banks' final novel "The Quarry" that was written about 10 years ago, so hardly relevant to today's brood of incompetents. It is important to distinguish between the writer and the character when reading novels, as surely the ex English Master in you must recognise. Unless you really believe that all comments in books reflect the author's beliefs.

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I stand corrected. Iain Banks didn’t really feature heavily in the National Curriculum...not even my ‘adapted’ version, but I might read the book now so thanks for the clarification. I suspect that certain comments do indeed reflect the author’s beliefs and I have to respectfully disagree, I also think it’s particularly relevant to ‘today’s brood of incompetents’ and the situation we find ourselves in.