Mad Nads eventually resigns.

[Workingman]

With a majority touching 25,000 this will be squeaky bum time for the Cons given her parting shot to Sunak:

"Since you took office a year ago, the country is run by a zombie parliament where nothing meaningful has happened.

"You have no mandate from the people and the government is adrift. You have squandered the goodwill of the nation, for what?

"Your actions have left some 200 or more of my MP colleagues to face an electoral tsunami and the loss of their livelihoods, because in your impatience to become prime minister you put your personal ambition above the stability of the country and our economy.

"Bewildered, we look in vain for the grand political vision for the people of this great country to hold on to, that would make all this disruption and subsequent inertia worthwhile, and we find absolutely nothing."

When one of your own highest-profile pals says such things... However, the electorate agree, both with her resignation and her words.

We will find out how it all goes in about five weeks.

[medsec222]

I think 'Mad Nad' may have got it right.

[Workingman]

Here is her resignation letter in full.

She doesn't hold back, and a lot of what she says will chime with what many of us, Conservative or not, are thinking.

When the incumbent PM makes two former PMs, the Johnson and a head of lettuce, look competent the country must know it's in trouble.

[cromwell]

She is right though, what has Sunak done? Nothing. And his campaign website (ready for Rishi) was registerd in the USA six months before Johnson was forced out. Him and his chums were plotting to stick the knife in for months, deny it though they may.

ETA - Just read the letter - wow! She doesn't hold back, does she?

[Workingman]

I never had any time for Johnson, and even less for Truss, but when Sunak came along I had this sixth sense... He was too good to be true, too smarmy, and there was a false air of bonhomie about him that I did not like.

Nad's timing was also spot-on. Resign on a bank holiday weekend leaving the media more than a few days to play with the news; and also do it while parliament is not sitting and so unable to react. A neat pincer move, one that looks to have been designed to hurt the Conservatives.

And so things have come to pass.

[Suff]

A competent politician will eviscerate enemies.

The Tory party now needs to face the people in the same shape as the Major/Blair competition.

Apparently that level of MP bloodletting is required to make them understand that they are a party and not a bunch of individuals looking to feather their nests.

I have been totally consistent here, it never mattered who replaced BoJo, the party would never give them the mandate to govern and that is the problem with the Tories today.

Meanwhile Labour sets out the middle ground to give Tory voters somewhere to go. No EU, no punitive taxes and no screwing business.

Just like Blair.

[Workingman]

The mandate always comes from the party. We, the electorate, never get to vote for a Prime Minister, we vote for MPs. It is the leader of the party with most MPs who gets to be PM.

Some parties pick wisely e.g. Thatcher and Blair, but then they screw things up... Foot, Miliband, Corbyn, Cameron, Johnson, Truss, Sunak.

If only there was another way.

[Suff]

If only there was another way.

Sweet dreams.