Another excellent article. There's a tsunami approaching this country bringing a crisis in living conditions that few alive today will have seen. Businesses by their 100's will go to the wall. Schools, hospitals and care homes will be teetering on the brink unless something is done to address this energy crisis. Buying a kettle won't be enough!
From the hustings Sunak has shown some awareness of the gravity of it but Truss may as well be on another planet,in fact I think she is, for all the ideas she's managed to come up with.
I'm very,very lucky in the fact I can take the hit but I've children and an elderly mother and can only say I'm frightened for them,though I can help,and frightened for the country.
Truss's tax cuts won't help closed businesses or unemployed workers and the loss of tax receipts will be crippling. Tory MP's will panic and I wouldn't be surprised if this time next year she isn't gone.
I wonder if the 1922 Committee will now take the opportunity to re-write the leadership election process to by-pass the unrepresentative membership? There would be squeals but they might take the view that in a modern election campaign, having local members to deliver leaflets and knock on doors is ever less likely to swing an election than before - so who needs the members' loyalty anyway, some may say. So I would not rule out a Truss ejection in 2023 followed by installation of a 'safe pair of hands' to minimize damage in a General Election, following the example of Howard in 2005. After all, the Tories have got most of their money from a small number of big Brexit-minded donors for years; 70-somethings cancelling their memberships in Haywards Heath isn't going to bankrupt the party. Of course, all of this may be pre-empted by an unimaginable crisis winter of unpayable heating and food bills, 20% inflation, widespread strikes, a plummeting currency and power/gas rationing as the UK is unlikely to be able to obtain imports from EU countries as readily as it has as a cooperative EU member.
Yes, they really do need to rethink the leadership process...Truss will be attempting to govern as the choice of less than a third of Tory MPs and with precious little broad-based support....in thrall to the ERG at a time when the PM needs substantial room for manoeuvre.
Another excellent article. There's a tsunami approaching this country bringing a crisis in living conditions that few alive today will have seen. Businesses by their 100's will go to the wall. Schools, hospitals and care homes will be teetering on the brink unless something is done to address this energy crisis. Buying a kettle won't be enough!
From the hustings Sunak has shown some awareness of the gravity of it but Truss may as well be on another planet,in fact I think she is, for all the ideas she's managed to come up with.
I'm very,very lucky in the fact I can take the hit but I've children and an elderly mother and can only say I'm frightened for them,though I can help,and frightened for the country.
Truss's tax cuts won't help closed businesses or unemployed workers and the loss of tax receipts will be crippling. Tory MP's will panic and I wouldn't be surprised if this time next year she isn't gone.
Good analysis
Excellent piece, thank you.
Thank you. I fear Truss is s sad reflection on the state of a nation that has lost its way
I wonder if the 1922 Committee will now take the opportunity to re-write the leadership election process to by-pass the unrepresentative membership? There would be squeals but they might take the view that in a modern election campaign, having local members to deliver leaflets and knock on doors is ever less likely to swing an election than before - so who needs the members' loyalty anyway, some may say. So I would not rule out a Truss ejection in 2023 followed by installation of a 'safe pair of hands' to minimize damage in a General Election, following the example of Howard in 2005. After all, the Tories have got most of their money from a small number of big Brexit-minded donors for years; 70-somethings cancelling their memberships in Haywards Heath isn't going to bankrupt the party. Of course, all of this may be pre-empted by an unimaginable crisis winter of unpayable heating and food bills, 20% inflation, widespread strikes, a plummeting currency and power/gas rationing as the UK is unlikely to be able to obtain imports from EU countries as readily as it has as a cooperative EU member.
Yes, they really do need to rethink the leadership process...Truss will be attempting to govern as the choice of less than a third of Tory MPs and with precious little broad-based support....in thrall to the ERG at a time when the PM needs substantial room for manoeuvre.
Thanks a good summary. Truss is likely to be a disastrous leader... just what a country facing such a tough outlook cannot afford.
Sadly, I fear you are right..