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Moggy (JRM) has resigned. Yayy...

Sunak of course. Inflation is projected to peak before Christmas then rapidly drops to around 5% in March/April. Gas price drops rapidly now. Government support for energy will be targetted to the poorest from April for 6 more months, Pound will quickly rise. Sunak will narrow the deficit...

BJ is OK in good times, like London winning the Olympics and our athletes won a record number of medals. He never will be up to the task in bad times. That's not why his hero is remembered. There was a clip on the BBC the other day. BJ was then foreign secretary. The view of the interviewee was...

Boston University researchers combined the Washington strain of the virulent Wuhan-1 SARS-COV2 with the spikes of Omicron. The recombinant virus has killed 8 test mice out of 10. The original Washington strain killed 6 mice out of 6 and the Omicron strain killed none. The newly created virus is...

He certainly can. There are plenty in the Conservative party who think Sunak isn't British. He may not win though. Brexit isn't going well.

FTSE goes up, gilt yield down. Relief is all round. The best proof that people want to invest in this country is the stock market. Time to get rid of Moggy.

Under PM Starmer or Sunak, when interest rate is high, those who buy treasury bonds call the shots. Put yourself in the shoes of someone who offer up a 30 year fixed rate loan to our government. Truss and Kwarteng wanted to bypass the BoE and the OBR. See how well that did. the economic...

that is true of the tories. None of the opposition parties is broken at the moment. That's why recent polls gave the tories only 14% of the potential votes, just 3 points above the LibDems. That's probably what Johnson thought when he decided not to run. For once, he would be correct.

Remember the tortoise and the hare? The tories could not sort themselves out in the last year. That says clearly that putting one's house in order is actuually a very difficult task. Starmer did this brilliantly, so don't put him down just yet.

Those interrupted loadings of images are not necessarily caused by the server. They can come from CDNs, routers between your virgin media routers and the server, google code caches or more likely browser cache keeping corrupted compressed images. I noticed for example that the quality of my VOIP...

it was JC who gave a thumping majority to BJ who later supported Truss to replace him. Starmer succeeded in making Labour a credible alternative in just 2 years. Not a bad result.

There was a time when a buffoon like Johnson could not do much harm to the economy but that time is gone. Sunak has good presentation skills and a sharp brain plus traditional economics instincts.

Starmer would have an easier win with Johnson as PM.

The bookies has sunak on 1/3. It is pretty much in the bag unless he says something stupid on TV.

Sunak currently has 50 more supportive MPs than BJ (122/72). That's a lot of gap. I can't see BJ making a plausible come back.

He does not have to. Our system implies that the person he asks to form the next government is already mandated by/have the confidence of parliament. At the moment, the conservatives try to elect their leader, we still have a PM until their new leader emerges. Charles does not have to do anything.

they can't go against the constitution of the conservative party. The way the 1922 committee devised this October election is about the best they can do, they will give the best chance for the last two candidates to do a deal. Sunak knows that the idiotic membership will vote for Johnson...

Patel, Dorries, Jenkyns, Bone, JRM, Leigh, Travelyan etc, all the extremists have nowhere else to go to. If BJ were to form a new government, he can't borrow and spend his way out to buy votes like he did before, his magic money tree has gone for years to come. Back in 2008, just before the...

Sunak is going to win the indicative vote Monday evening. The question is then will he be opposed? I think not. The polls suggest that Sunak is best placed to reduce the damage to conservative votes.

the BJ threat seems to recede as his tally does not grow as fast as Sunak's. The Pound and FTSE100 rose a little bit. I was trying to delay paying the Chinese until Monday but got cold feet and bought USD before BJ lost his early lead so lost a bit on the exchange.