Who should be the next leader of the Tory party?

[Mr Kobayashi]

She,almost certainly,will still be a shit prime minister.

Indeed. But how many who ran for the leadership election would be a good PM?

 

[bluethrunthru]

 

[mosssideblue]

She,almost certainly,will still be a shit prime minister.

No arguments there, but people knocking her for her reaction last night are looking for anything to criticise her with

 

[lust overlord]

Indeed. But how many who ran for the leadership election would be a good PM?

I think you know the answer to that ;)

 

[Shaelumstash]

Great piece by Robert Shrimsley in the FT. He's quite sarcastic and I was a bit non-plussed when I saw the headline but I think he nails it:

Liz Truss is the right choice for this Conservative party

The foreign secretary is the continuity candidate, promising more of Johnson’s ‘cakeism’ and avoiding economic trade-offs

www.ft.com

It has often been said that Boris Johnson was the only person who could hold the current Tory coalition together, a view entrenched by the nasty contest to succeed him. A core reason for this, though, was his capacity for selling political doublethink, or as he put it, being “pro having cake and pro eating it”.

Conservatives may have tired of Johnson’s personal failings there is less evidence they have tired of cakeism. They want investment in public services and help with energy bills but lower taxation; sound money but also higher borrowing, deregulation with interventionism; Brexit and higher growth; housebuilding but just not where they live. Today’s Conservative party dislikes hard choices. And this is a problem for Rishi Sunak, because the former chancellor has decided to make facing up to them his key pitch to succeed Johnson. The cakeist candidate is Liz Truss and the foreign secretary and frontrunner is prepared to go full gateau if it gets her to the top.

That's absolutely brillant

 

[mat]

Keir Starmer would piss it

 

[I'm no cynic but...]

Keir Starmer would piss it

He would if he was popular but he's not. Politics today in front of the watching public has nothing to do with rationality. More like Monty Python's Argument sketch.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

He would if he was popular but he's not. Politics today in front of the watching public has nothing to do with rationality. More like Monty Python's Argument sketch.

No it isn’t.

 

[meltonblue]

 

[Marlo]

Sunak: "I grew up in Southampton but I'm an MP for a rural Yorkshire community"

Right....... so strong links to your constituency then.