Next Conservative leader

I really thought we had reached rock bottom when we had Boris the unbelievable but Truss I'll do it my may or maybe not beats him into a tin hat. If this is British leadership at its best we are doomed. Ignoring the credentials of Sunak supporters, bearing in mind he got the majority of support in phase one of the leadership contest, is just total nonsense. Cabinet means collective responsibility & without it your are sunk. Cabinet ministers openly canvassing opinions on policies which are yet to be agreed should be a sackable offence but it seems anything goes with Liz whose authority was never up for debate - she never had any. 

I seriously doubt it because they will have such a small chance of winning. He's more likely to switch to labour! I'm actually quite amazed we're seeing what we are because the rebellious "ethical" tories and pig-headed Truss, take your pick, each know exactly how this infighting comes across. Fine by me if they cripple the party for the next GE as I think they contain this hard-right/UKIP/ERG faction, likely a minority, that are disastrous for the UK because of their selfish greed, cronyism and corruption.

Did anyone see HIGNFY, which I don't even find funny anymore but see as an alternative to the crap BBC politics programmes, and that clip of Sunak saying exactly what would happen in the disastrous Truss plan? He was absolutely spot-on. Yet the Conservative Party members still voted for it. Let that sink in: they want the majority of the UK to be worse off. There's no other conclusion I can draw, just watch all the scapegoats now being made by Truss et al: unions, those on benefits, the poor, the woke, the EU, it just goes on and on.

A party replacing a PM half way through their term and imposing upon the electorate a different manifesto should simply not be allowed. There should be an automatic GE the moment a PM leaves. This farce now means that a boris return is in fact possible. Lets face it the tories know he is the only one who would have a hope in a GE

BOJO is currently being investigated by the parliamentary standards committee for the ‘possibly deliberate misleading of parliament’ over partygate, unfortunately for him the investigation is being led by a labour peer, so hopefully he’ll get what he deserves and will then face being banned from politics.

Should he get away with it though, I still don’t think it will be that straight forward.  

He lost the support of a majority of his MPs, was told to stand aside as PM, if they decide to u-turn and support him then they will face ridicule for yet another u-turn within the Tory party.  Also, the inquiry into the government’s handling of the pandemic has now started, and I’m expecting a lot of negativity over the handling (inc the reluctance to lockdown earlier, to send the elderly into nursing homes without being tested) the dishing out of dodgy PPE contracts to Tory supports and family/friends.  The people of the UK will not forget the pandemic easily.

Will bump this back into the conversation - judging by Fridays 9 minute press conference - another coward at the helm. 

Love them or loathe them Thatcher and Blair had the courage to make arguments for and defend their positions on policy. That’s why they each led the country for a decade. 

If our politicians are too scared to face a few questions from political journalists about their policies or why they sacked their chancellor then they simply don’t deserve to govern us.

She’s resigned for 2 errors of judgement with regards to government documents/email accounts, some would argue that her biggest error was to become a Tory MP and to agree to serve in Truss’ parliament.

I believe that the likelihood is that her reasons for resigning are not the real ones - it’s more likely to do with her recent comments about dreaming of seeing plane loads of refugees being sent to Ruanda and her outburst in parliament yesterday about protestors and striking.

She now holds the unenviable  record of being the shortest serving Home Secretary in history.  Kamiquazi Kuarteng was the second shortest serving chancellor, beaten only by a chancellor who sadly died in office.  The Tory party is re-writing the history books and breaking every unenviable records they possibly can.