Torkies vote to postpone Christmas!
First draft 12oct22 16:30
Pragmatism is the only sane option for the Conservative Party at this point. Like so much else in UK business, the job of PM has been outsourced to talent from the Sub Continent.
The hideously white Labour Party is in a curious place, where it is absurd amounts ahead in the opinion polls, yet the Party leader and his shadow cabinet are regarded with very little enthusiasm. Indeed, they seem to be regarded as at least as much of a clown show as the Tories have been recently!
Boris has probably achieved all he could have hoped for at this point. He stepped aside in the interests of stability and unity - and avoid the privileges hassle and the inevitable market convulsions.
He will have the satisfaction that the world will
know he would have won the members' vote had he wanted to. And he will
be able to charge even more on the rubber chicken speaker circuit.
Let us not forget that Boris is basically still too woke and lefty, with an unnervingly mad wife promoting irrational green nonsense; and by now we expect that whatever happens, Boris will always have the chutzpah to be a very naughty boy. He got away with it magnificently as Mayor of "melting pot" London - but failed to realize that the job of PM was a rather more challenging one - especially where the silent majority that is the backbone of Tory support has become the silenced majority at the behest of woke media and activist millennials twittering in the marketing industry.
BUT...
Somewhat ironically, the simple pragmatic reality (financial jitters)
of the situation has reunified the majority of the turkey lobby fodder
behind the Sunak snake. A different story in the country and with the
members, of course.
So the task now is to get the Sunak government moving forward with some
engaging and thoughtful policies, so that Boris has a shot when he
returns in glory for the 2024 GE. Sunak can be eased out and undone at
any time by a Richie Rishi themed campaign. Since he has no need of the
money, he might even be persuaded to go quietly at the perfect time -
having prepared the way for Boris to come back and campaign in 2024...
The
sheer indifference towards Starmer displayed in all the Vox pops we saw last week,
was very surprising. Starmer is still balanced on a knife-edge in terms
of KormaGate and the all round poor quality of his troops. Not to
mention his knee-taking fiasco alongside the ginger growler...
However depressed Conservative MPs might be when looking at opinion polling results, they can take great comfort by recalling that their enemy may have an even bigger death wish...
And this is the Labour chairman of the Parliamentary Privileges committee that is due to "try" BJ for misleading the Commons ...
