General Election Date

Many are calling for a General Election now, but it won't happen.

• If one were to be called now, the government would fall and Tory MPs in Parliament would be decimated.
• Call one nearer the 23rd January 2025 deadline, after Truss has been replaced, and there's a small, but much increased possibility of a larger number of Tory MPs retaining their seats.

On the basis of the above options, there's no shadow of a doubt that the 2nd option will be chosen.

There's also no shadow of a doubt that allowing Tory MPs to select their leader, without reference to the wider Party, is infinitely more democratic than giving the choice to 80,000 odd, unelected party members with no mandate whatsoever - and not to mention an abysmal record of choosing a suitable leader.

In order to avoid referring to the wider Party members, all the MPs have to do is to ensure their final choice (providing they can change the 12 month challenge rule) is unopposed and it's then entirely within the rules that a vote by the wider Party can be circumvented.

The current crisis is due to an internal coup by the extreme, libertarian ERG, who we taxpayers have funded. Tory MPs who are ERG members recoup their £2k p.a. ERG subscriptions by claiming them as expenses, which are funded by us. They used to be declared as ERG subscriptions, but more recently they've been hidden as general expenses.

Both Truss and Hunt are insisting that Truss will lead the Conservatives into the next GE. That is possible, if she threatens Tory MPs with an immediate GE if there are moves to remove her, but that puts her own interests before those of the country and her MPs.