Sunday 24 July 2022

Tory Leadership Contest Into Next Phase

Always annoys me that politicians, once out of the job, come out and say that they never agreed with the policies that they enforced while in power and so we have the two Conservative Contenders for the job of Prime Minister coming out and saying things like we can do better and  how bad things are as if they have forgotten, or rather hoping that we had forgotten, that they have been in power for the past 12 years, them.
Rishi Sunak has come out and said that one of his first acts if he gets power (which he won't) is that he would put the country on a crisis footing due to the state of the NHS, migration and the economy, an economy that as Chancellor, he has been directly running for the past three years and landed us with 9% inflation, the worst economic crisis in the G20 and the highest tax since the 1940's so that's like asking George Best to look after your drink while you pop to the toilet.
Frankie Boyle had a great line that Rishi Sunak put out a promotional video in black and white in the hope that the 200,000 Tory members who will vote didn't notice that he was brown because if there is one group of white, old people ranting about Britain not being white enough, it's the Conservative Party members but he shouldn't be put off by the latest poll which shows he has 32% to Liz Truss's 68% amongst them, or maybe he should and spare us the next 6 weeks.
Liz Truss has come out to say that her record shows that she 'get's things done' and cites Brexit and backing the Ukraine as examples but if your main accomplishments are making Britain financially poorer and creating an employment crisis because all of the foreign workers have gone back home then you may not want to shout it too loudly.   
We are now in the part of the contest where previously they were saying things to get the support of their other 354 Conservative MP's, now they have to say the right things to get the nod from the 200,000 Conservative Party members and as these members are 97% white, 70% aged 60 and above and 75% Brexit voting, it's inane right-wing bashing migrants and foreign workers and talking about how wonderful Brexit can be.    
It is hard to believe that anyone can do a worse job than Boris Johnson, easily the worst Prime Minister in my lifetime, but with it hard to anyone but Liz Truss and her strange facial reaction to questions while her brain buffers, receiving the keys to Number 10 so her talk about being tougher on migrants, reducing Government and changing the tax laws which almost every economist has said would make everyone but the richest worse off, her words suddenly seems very scary indeed.

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