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@shallow-blue saidI did but I assumed it was directed at dive.
You didn't un-hide my hidden remark, then.Anyway the halfwit has resigned
Wow, that's breaking news and no mistake!
What next, finally a general election where the real Englishman, not just the party member, gets a vote?
Nah, can't be allowed. The Party must prevail. Me, I'd vote for Nicola if I were allowed to.
The tories do like a December election especially when they are looking for a low turnout so I wouldn’t rule that out but the other option is to limp on until they are bound to hold an election in the hope that the nation gets distracted by WWIII or a complete climate meltdown where the Thames merges with the Mersey, the Tyne and the Clyde.
-Removed-Well - events have overtaken us! We'll soon see whether it will be Sunak after all. I would have said a few hours ago that I thought the party might rally around Jeremy Hunt, but he's ruled himself out.
I wonder if Mordaunt is more likely than Sunak, though. She's made fewer enemies.
Indeed, it's precisely because of what Sunak did during COVID that I think he's unlikely at this moment. When the last leadership contest took place, a Danish friend asked me if I thought the Conservative Party was hostile to him because he was a person of colour. I said I thought they were hostile to him because he was a Keynesian!
I also wonder if he might think it's a poisoned chalice right now. If the Tories lose in 2024, that could be his moment. He'll still be under 50 in 2029.
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@teinosuke saidThat’s the problem the Tory party is at least two possibly three distinct parties now. Like all parties there have always been well defined wings on the left and right but this has been complicated by hard Brexit and soft Brexit sub wings, one nation…. the list getting unmanageable.
Pretty obviously, that he spent public money and practised the kind of economic intervention that makes sense to most of us, but is anathema to Tory free marketeers.
The Brexit referendum was called because Cameron thought it would put the brexiteer cadre back in its box, the rest is history. But the question remains how much more instability and damage can they do before they devolve into their constituent parts and hand the tiller to a relatively less dysfunctional family.
