Has the Conservative Party lost all sense of competence

So the Conservative haven't built up a huge deficit by spending / borrowing?

Quite - Mogg as favourite to replace May? Duncan-Smith explaining why we need a hard Brexit.
Where are all the moderate Tories? In hiding?

No. We do not need a Labour government to end this austerity programme. All they would do is what they always do: spend, borrow, spend borrow, and then leave an even larger deficit.
And encourage the dependency culture.

whitewave,excellent question.

What I find absolutely incredible is that the majority in Parliament and the Lords feel so strongly that it is not in the national interest to pursue this disastrous policy, and yet all we hear are the loons. When will they actually put the country before party?

What we need is for at least some of the Tory Remainers to have the courage to vote for what they believe, even if it probably means an end to their careers as Conservative MPs.

In spite of everything they have been amazingly loyal and have gone against their better judgement (starting when they voted to trigger Article 50). Some of the more moderate ones might find a home in the Liberal Democrats.

But could Labour, SNP, Lib dems get together enough votes to carry a no confidence motion?
Possibly the DUP might be annoyed enough to abstain?

I would imagine that a General Election would reduce the amount of tory seats. No one seems think they are doing a good job at moment. Not even conservative voters. Cannot imagine how they think they will keep getting away with cuts to police, education, N.H.S. etc etc. Or is this a ploy to get out of government given the impending disasters?

In answer to the Post question: YES!
I've lost all confidence in their 'competence'

Perhaps it's time for a vote of no confidence in this shambolic Government.
And a general election.
Not sure if the numbers add up though.

I'm waiting for Conservative views on this

I don't see any one who has the capacity to unite the party. Additionally, if the party wanted to do as promised after saying they'd heard the electorate at the last election, the austerity programme would have changed. It hasn't.
We need a Labour Government to address the real worries about public services, sooner rather than later.

Apologies for repeating, but as no-one who is a Conservative supporter has replied, I will ask again:

Now for a serious question - should Mrs May step down, or be forced to step down - who, but who (who?) has te capacity to unite the party (never mind the UK) and negotiate effectively (as well as deal with all the other issues Brexit is hiding - NHS, education, housing, social services, etc, etc).

They can't even competently choose a leader, either.

www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2017/12/05/none-of-the-above/

I am surprised Anna Soubry is not on the list.

Yes, Granny23, and no university fees either.
Scotland looks after its young, instead of pretending to.

Burseries - Well done the Scottish Government again.

Who is going to sack Davis, though?

He was going to resign if Green was sacked, but he can't even stick to that as he's u-turning.

Well, it seems to be pretty clear that those 58 'in depth' impact studies either weren't 'in depth' at all or didn't actually exist

This series of tweets

start

Replying to @jessicaelgot
One senior peer: "You can't call it a Brexit impact assessment because it makes no assessment of the impact."

Jessica Elgot‏Verified account

Labour MP says all the information in Brexit impact analysis is stuff sourced to select committee hearings and press releases...

Adrian Farrell ??‏

I had it confirmed the other night by someone in Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy that the Brexit impact assessment did not exist at the time of parlaiments vote to release them

Adrian Farrell ??‏

Suffice to say it was a very busy 3 weeks. Interestingly they didn't think a charge of contempt of Parlaiment would be brought as no one really knows what that means and what it entails

Adrian Farrell ??‏

It was also the personal opinion of head of department Greg Clark that releasing a comprehensive and unredacted assessment would stop brexit

end

(poor guy can't spell Parliament)

And these which I'll link to:

twitter.com/Susannah4Europe/status/938129941073465344

Nurses bursaries?

www.independent.co.uk/news/health/nhs-nurse-bursary-england-number-first-year-support-fees-ucas-jeremy-hunt-rcn-a8091131.html

They can't say they weren't warned this would happen.

I have read today that she is going to do a sack me or back me a la Major. Just a Tory spokesman saying so, so probably fake news.

www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2017/12/05/the-eu-tax-haven-list-is-very-bad-news-for-jersey-guernsey-and-the-isle-of-man/

www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2017/12/05/the-eus-message-to-tax-havens-has-one-real-target-and-thats-the-uk/

Makes interesting reading.
Dare the government try and turn us into a tax haven for their mates?

I mean, can you imagine a Bojo, Gove and Rees Mogg trio getting the job (sssssss) done?

Now for a serious question - should Mrs May step down, or be forced to step down - who, but who (who?) has te capacity to unite the party (never mind the UK) and negotiate effectively (as well as deal with all the other issues Brexit is hiding - NHS, education, housing, social services, etc, etc).

infacts.org/public-want-final-say-brexit-deal/

Incompetence in knowing what the public want.

I wouldn't be surprised if the talks with the DUP were just about the size of the bribe the British taxpayers would have to pay for them to prop up TM's weak and unstable government.

If it becomes clear that no talks were held with the DUP before the talks about the Irish issue - it simply underlines the incompetence of the wretched government,

I guess paying for treatment has become more and more common - many of us use private dentistry without thinking as the NHS dental service in our area is non existent or doesn't provide the treatments we would like , ditto opticians, osteopaths, non urgent operations such a hysterectomy which otherwise they would have to wait months in pain on a waiting list, so savings are used up . Its become more and more a two-tier system.