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Now the TV hustings are over, where does that leave us?

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winterwhite Mon 18-Jul-22 11:17:30

I thought that Sunak did well last night. Came across as the most even-tempered and the most competent.

Truss was slightly more impressive than Mordaunt this time. Her only verb seems to be 'deliver' - tho she hasn't done, much. But nor has Mordaunt, whose only adverb seems to be 'incredibly'.

Tugendhat sadly didn't do himself justice, and for some reason he has had an unfair press over the weekend. But he deserves a good ministerial post and will surely get one.

Do not know what to make of Badenoch. She was gratuitously snubbing to Tugendhat, a mistake that showed. I'd never heard of her until she threw her hat in this ring, yet she claims to have sat round every decision-making table and now thinks those decisions were all wrong and she alone knows how to cut through the country's problems. Is she bigging up her previous roles? Anyway I thought her rather an unpleasant woman.

Interesting that none of them wanted the challenge of an early GE.

It was a pity that the presenter told them to challenge one another and then did such a poor job of controlling the discussion.

If I were a tory voter I'd be in despair.

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Dickens Tue 19-Jul-22 18:39:08

... where does that leave us?

Well I think those who are struggling will still be struggling, and those who are just about managing will continue to just about manage (maybe some won't).

Those more fortunate with savings, will eat into them. And the very wealthy will continue to remain so.

Johnson has coined the mantra of "delivering", so whoever is the winner will continue to "deliver", though I'm not sure what it is they are delivering.

We've got our sovereignty back (not that I was aware we'd lost it - although we did have to comply with the rules of the club we'd joined, as you do with any club) and we've taken back control - well, kind of).

As far as I can determine, jobs and growth are created by investors investing, and the most attractive attribute for an investor is a flexible, low-wage, low tax economy, with a government dedicated to small-state, free-market libertarian ideology..

Which is exactly what we had under Johnson and probably exactly what we'll continue with. If you're happy for the NHS and social care to be whittled down by these services "doing more with less" (can't remember who said that, but it's another mantra they all believe in), then it probably won't matter much who becomes the next PM, it's win-win for you.

For the rest of us it will be just more of the same. So, I don't actually care who wins the race.

... and I hear there's a move among MPs to re-instate Johnson - so he will definitely be in with a chance, he's popular with many of the electorate which is why the move was instituted.

So we might end up going out the same door we came in (but don't ask Truss for directions).

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Riverwalk Tue 19-Jul-22 18:39:58

Whitewavemark2

Truss the bookies favourite for next PM???

Bring it on! grin

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RichmondPark1 Tue 19-Jul-22 22:03:28

"I hear there's a move among MPs to re-instate Johnson - so he will definitely be in with a chance, he's popular with many of the electorate which is why the move was instituted."

If I couple this with the fact that he didn't actually say he was resigning I get a sick, ominous feeling in my stomach.

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RichmondPark1 Tue 19-Jul-22 22:06:07

Liz Truss's finest moments.
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