General British politics discussion thread

I know we've seen it before, but this Ben (Walter Mitty) Wallace?

He is a safe looking white guy with a military record so is held up every once in a while as a fix all.

He is essentially the David O'Leary/Reid/Hoolahan Eamonn Dunphy type savior of the Tory party.

Nothing in the real world to actually suggest he is any bit more qualified that the last 3 clowns.

Nobody is ever qualified to be PM.

You need to learn on the job, with the advice of experienced people around you.

Truss hadn't the basic sense to take a breath and consider all the consequences and take soundings from all sides. In that way, she made herself look a complete amateur and a fool.

Wallace is a safe pair of hands, an acknowledged tactician. But, he refused to stand the last time and that shows he's no fool either. Its such a sh1t show now, I suspect he's even less likely to go forward, even if offered a coronation.

Also, the Tories won't get away with another change of leader anyway. Either way, this ends with a General Election and quite soon.

Could come down to the King taking a view to bring this dysfunctional and paralysed Parliament to an end.

Good leaders and therefore good PMs can be seen a mile off.

Politics aside Obama, Cameron, Blair, Macron, Merkel were all good leaders and we're spotted as such before taking power.

Practically everyone unbiased called called May, Johnson and Truss out as jokes and it has come to pass that they were.

The Ben Wallace "safe pair of hands" narrative is just desperation same as the Jeremy €unt narrative.

It’s irritating how both Hunt and Sunak are constantly talked about now as “safe pairs of hands”. Hunt destroyed the NHS, and Sunak claims to be pro-growth but is also avidly pro-Brexit. Two absolute cretins, and that they are held up as wise statesmen now just shows how far the party has sunk.

They are only called 'safe pair of hands' in relation to the alternatives. Always, one needs to consider where the UK finds itself. They have lost all credibility, both internationally and domestically, so this 'safe pair of hands' is more about trying to sell a narrative to calm everything that reality.

If Hunt really is this great asset, why was he not only overlooked for the CX originally, but not even deemed worthy of a seat in the cabinet? Not even a secretary of state? Nothing. And now he gets balled up from the back benches to the second-highest job in the government, some would say that Truss is so damaged that it is really the top job at this point.

I would disagree that Brits do not want growth. They do, they just don't know what it really means, or what needs to be done to get it. It's straight back to the Brexit thinking. Control, laws, and money. But having no actual plan or idea of what it needs.

Has anybody seen Truss’s deputy PM and ally. Has she also gone to ground?

Therese "poor people are richer than you think" Coffey is a disgusting human being, shes a health secretary who has proudly admitted she gave left over antibiotics to a friend..... she doesn't understand a basic fvcking tenet of antibiotics medication not to mention its against the law.

Ive never done it, its absolute stupidity and plain ignorance about how antibiotics work to do it.

I never have and I do not know anyone who has admitted to doing this

More hand waving..... not sharing antibiotics has nothing to do with being perfect, its simply understanding the seriousness of that sharing them is just helping to bring forward the day that they will no longer be effective and we will be without them.