Would the Tories dare to hoist yet another prime minister onto the country?

Dorries reckons

‘I’m calling it now.
The plan is to install David Cameron as next leader of the party following defeat in the GE.’

I think that’s against her own party’s rules, but the Tories are in such chaos, maybe none of them will notice.

Hoist?

FOIST

Katie59

They won’t sack Sunak before GE for better or worse he will stay, the only uncertainty is how badly they will do. I’m expecting a hung parliament with Starmer as PM, unless something changes I don’t think he is strong enough to win a decent majority.
A marginal majority will see his extremists plaguing him with compromises, so although the Tories will be out it won’t be easy.

I’m not expecting the Tories to gain more than the 170ish seats being predicted, if there is a hung parliament it will be because people have voted for other parties, not just for Labour.

If Sunak sees a call for his resignation coming surely he just has to threaten to call an election.

Katie59

They won’t sack Sunak before GE for better or worse he will stay, the only uncertainty is how badly they will do. I’m expecting a hung parliament with Starmer as PM, unless something changes I don’t think he is strong enough to win a decent majority.
A marginal majority will see his extremists plaguing him with compromises, so although the Tories will be out it won’t be easy.

Why do you think Starmer isn’t strong? Look how he’s united the Labour Party. Just read what Jess Phillips wrote about him when she recently resigned from the shadow cabinet. No nastiness when she resigned, knows he still has a place for her in government. Think she said she’s only seen him lose his temper once ( I can’t remember what it was over, or she might have said she’s never seen him lose his temper). I’ll try to find the article.

They won’t sack Sunak before GE for better or worse he will stay, the only uncertainty is how badly they will do. I’m expecting a hung parliament with Starmer as PM, unless something changes I don’t think he is strong enough to win a decent majority.
A marginal majority will see his extremists plaguing him with compromises, so although the Tories will be out it won’t be easy.

I don't feel sorry for him Winterwhite, or anyone in his party. They have presided over huge excess deaths in covid, excess deaths from the way they have run the NHS down, obscene amounts of our money paid to big businesses often owned by their friends, benefit cuts that have put families on low incomes into poverty. I can't wait to vote them out

@winterwhite Why on Earth would you feel sorry for Sunak?! He's a Tory through and through and they're all awful (though Jeff Norcott did make me chuckle A LOT on the News Quiz!). He has no integrity, is only in it for himself (and his wife) and the sooner they're all out of the Commons the better. And don't think for one minute I'm a Starmer fan because I'm really not.

I’d say yet another change of prime minister is unthinkable. If Sunak falls there’d have to be a general election. I feel sorry for him. A decent man with all the cards stacked against him by his own party.

I heard the Tories described as a ‘circular firing squad’ this afternoon. Very apt.

Not sure if Sunak can survive this. But he needs to hold the centre of his party (the biggest faction) or it will all come undone.

What a mess.

I despair at the Tory party, I cannot believe how they have managed both themselves and the country during their period in power. The mishandling and corruption beggars belief, the best thing they can do is clear off and call a general election but I can't see that happening, so I suppose I'll have to take some enjoyment in watching them fight like rats in a sack. I suppose getting rid of Sunak means they could say 'we're a different party now, all back to usual' but people aren't going to forgive the lack of access to medication, botched Brexit arrangement, lies about money going to the NHS on a bus, struggles to pay bills, lack of GP access, no longer any NHS dentist, I could go on, it wasn't any one MP responsible for this, but all the Tories

I listen to the radio more than watching the tv/political programs due to work. I've noticed they play more of David Cameron talking or making statements rather than Rishi and I admit in my new year/I hate January haze, I have been