Next Conservative leader

Ellwood has called for the UK to rejoin the single market, something wildly unpopular among the conservative members, so I don’t think he has a chance. What I do hope is that the next leader is from the ‘One Nation’ group of Tories. As much as I don’t particularly like any group of Tories they are so much better than having someone like Truss or one of the other nutters the ERG would back as leader. 

I knew that Ellwood was a remainer but I thought he was on record as saying that we should not go back on that decision. 

How very dare they !

I have personal, recent experience of trying to help our elderly neighbours who are reaching the stage where they cannot safely look after themselves. My wife met one of the social services team & explained what help we were giving them with hygiene, medication & meals which we felt should be supplied by a social care system to be told that not a lot was available due to lack of staff/resources. people all over the country are waiting hours for ambulances to arrive, thousands are being given urgent A&E treatment in ambulances in car parks which contributes to the wait for other vulnerable people & all the while we have two tory MP's who are arguing about when is the right time to cut taxes and reduce the cost of the State. 

FFS wake up and see the reality of where being one of the top 5 richest countries in the World has got us to - rampant inflation, NHS & social care system broken almost beyond repair, food bank usage at his highest level ever & we have muppets in our government who tell us we have never had it so good!!!!!

We need a government in waiting to stand up and give us some real levelling up policies at the same time spelling out the terrible truth that you cannot have World class education, NHS & social care in a society where people are living longer without paying for it. Rant over!!!!!!

Truss comes across as someone who will say or promise just about anything to get noticed or to gain votes (bit like BOJO).  She seems happy to fire bullets at others and to stoke up tensions with other people in high office, just what you don’t need during a global cost of living crisis.

Her negotiation skills as the trade secretary weren’t up to much - pork markets with the Middle East and a deal with Australia over another meat product - both worthless, undermining the farming industry which lost so much funding as a result of brexit, and both embarrassing when you consider the Tory parties pledge to become carbon neutral by 2050.

It’s interesting see that BOJO appears to be through all his weight behind anyone but Sunak (As he had the cheek to resign, and has now started taking swipes at the treasury - the very department that he’s championed for “keeping the economy going throughout the pandemic “.

I too am a little worried that he may try and run again for leader in the future.  He, like Trump, just believes that he has a god given right to hold high office and to trash the standards and establishments that have stood for hundreds of years, on the back of the delusion that people have given them a mandate to do so.

Hopefully the parliamentary standards commission will find that he did mislead parliament (probably easier to do now that he’s no longer leader and hence no longer judge and jury), that would then mean that he would have to resign as an MP, and hopefully be banned from running again.