I thought the MPs chose 2 candidates that the membership get to vote on via elimination. MPs don't get sole say anymore and there wasn't another way of choosing.bjn wrote: ↑Wed Oct 05, 2022 11:02 amAFAIUI They'll need to change the rules to boot her before 12 months and to have the MPs appoint the leader, not the membership. If it goes back to the members it'll be another crazy.monkey wrote: ↑Tue Oct 04, 2022 10:33 pmThey don't need to change the rules. They didn't to give Johnson the boot, there was talk of that so they could do a 2nd confidence vote in him*, but they didn't and he is still no longer PM.bjn wrote: ↑Tue Oct 04, 2022 9:04 pmRoute forward for the Tories. 1922 Committee rewrites the leadership rules, Truss gets it in the neck, Saint Rishi gets appointed instead. Bounce in the polls because we’ve gone from absolutely f.cking crazy and evil to plain competent evil. Rishi still f.cks the average Brit but stabilises gilts and sterling. They win in 2024 having “learnt their lesson”.
They just need to make Truss' ministry unworkable, such as lots of backbenchers rebelling or mass resignations of ministers. They just can't make it too unworkable, otherwise they might accidently end up having an election, which would be Bad For Them.
Agree with the rest. Might not be Sunak, but I bet they do their best to have only one candidate left before it goes to the membership.
*I wasn't sure what the right grammar was here, but I like it this way. Implies something messy happens.
But if there's only 1 candidate, or all but one drop out, there won't be a membership election. That sort of thing *should* be able to be arranged in the back rooms of Westminster. Theresa May won that way after Leadsom withdrew.