The government of Liz Truss

This might sound like hyperbole, but that is one of the worst political performances I have ever seen, and that is saying A LOT considering the liar just ousted from office. Even to call her a fifth or sixth rate politician would be generous. I genuinely don't think Truss will make it to Christmas. If she carries on like this, she may not make it to the weekend.

What is the fallout of this do we think? If she does less interviews, it creates a chasm where the PM should be communicating with the electorate. If she continues like this, the incompetence gets worse and worse. They MUST vote her out surely?

YouGov have just released a poll that gives Labour a 33 point lead over the Tories. 54% (+9) vs. 21% (-7%).

That's crazy.

I would say she has no empathy and therefore is incapable of having an understanding of the situation...

Well the data is out there. For example, if one looks at the data for the YouGov poll "There are three key factors in Labour's lead. First, the proportion of 2019 Conservative voters who now say they will vote Labour has risen to a sizeable 17%, doubling from 8% in our poll published on Monday. Only 37% of those who backed the Conservatives in the previous election currently intend to stick with the party."

That really does suggest that it's not just the Tory vote that has collapsed, people are actually switching.
yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2022/09/29/voting-intention-con-21-lab-54-28-29-sep-2022

Certainly it was true previously that a lot of the Labour lead was down to a shift to don't no from Tory voters but as mentioned above that appears to be changing and Labour are now ahead on pretty much every policy area including the economy which is always their weak point. Starmer also now has more solid leads on the best PM question.

If the Tories had an actual answer to the hardship this mini budget announcement is causing they wouldn't be trying to push the narrative that this is a global issue (not entirely untrue but the more intense crisis we are facing is down to the Tories own policies) or somehow fear of a incoming Labour government.

I didn't but I'm shocked to hear she didn't discuss the mini budget with the whole cabinet. WTF

As David says it's a bit of a mix, but it is fair to say that it would be reckless to think that current headline polling could be repeated at an actual general election. News cycles move on to other things, newspapers that might occasionally challenge very unpopular policies go back to championing the party that benefits their owners, MPs who want to be re-elected rally around their leader and a lot of people inevitably revert to voting how they always vote. 

Tempting as it is to blame this all on Truss, this is a lot of chickens coming home to roost, and people who have given the benefit of the doubt or hoped that something better would be around the corner, finally realising it's not happening with this batch of the Conservatives. Simply changing the PM is not enough to undo the damage or lick them into shape. It's been coming for years, but Johnson's love of Yes men and women, including his purge of some of the saner, independent thinking MPs in 2019 was a tipping point.

Normally party conferences are the time of year when a party can present itself on its own terms, and that comes with an associated boost in the polls. The LibDems had to cancel theirs because it clashed with the Queen's funeral, while Labour had excellent timing for theirs. But it seems to be more than that. It looks like Starmer has earned the trust of a lot of people who have voted Conservative in the past, and it's that trust that will let him and the Labour party convince floating voters to give their policies the benefit of the doubt.

Meanwhile, this Tory conference will serve to remind people how awful they are. 

I think they've all gone karloscar. Even if they were generally team players, you could rely on someone like Ken Clarke to say when he thought something was a terrible idea, and other leaders could handle it, but under Johnson he had the whip withdrawn. He may well have retired anyway, but he and many more of his mould were essentially deselected in 2019, while the likes of Anna Soubry defected. The new intake seem to be nothing more than lobby fodder.

Gove was critical of Truss this morning, but it was still measured and he's never going to admit that a lot of the problems are down to the hard Brexit he is partially responsible for.

I've never seen anything to support either of those ideas.