It seems we’ve all been given a reprieve because Iain Duncan Smith [pictured] will not be interim Tory leader while that party looks for someone to fit the role permanently.
The BBC is reporting that Rishi Sunak has been persuaded to stay on as acting leader until a successor is appointed at the end of a three-month contest.
Why so long? This Writer can only guess that it’s to work out an election system that allows members to vote but doesn’t give them the opportunity to let loonies like Liz Truss have a go.
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Considering the list of possible candidates, this may be a challenge.
Potential candidates include former minister Mel Stride who said he was “considering” announcing his candidacy.
Others include former immigration minister Robert Jenrick, former home secretaries Suella Braverman and Dame Priti Patel, shadow home secretary James Cleverly, shadow security minister Tom Tugendhat and shadow communities secretary Kemi Badenoch.
All of them have black marks against their names – as This Writer has mentioned in the past:
If you think Tom Tugendhat is the straightest of them, think again. A former Territorial Army Lieutenant Colonel, he’s a sabre-rattler who has verbally attacked Iran and Russia while supporting similarly vicious regimes in Saudi Arabia and Israel. As prime minister, he may put the UK in danger of participating in a series of harmful foreign adventures.
Suella Braverman, on the other hand, is a confirmed swivel-eyed loony. She used to be chair of the hard-right hard-Brexiteer European Research Group of Tory MPs that was funded from members’ expenses claims – meaning you paid for it.
She supports plans to strip us of our human and work-related rights – a project made possible by Brexit – while hiding behind publicity campaigns about bringing back blue passports (which could have been done at any time).
She merrily planned to support breaches of the UK’s international treaty agreements with the Internal Market Bill, knowing that it would harm the fragile peace in Northern Ireland. This willingness to break international law prompted the Bar Council to point out to her that a crime which broke the law in a “specific and limited way” – the phrase used by the Northern Ireland secretary, Brandon Lewis, when he announced the move – was still a crime.
As Attorney General, she didn’t like the acquittal of the so-called “Colston 4” who toppled the statue of slaver Edward Colston in 2020, and considered referring the case to the Court of Appeal, thereby attacking the judgement of an independent jury, even though there was no question of there having been a mistrial. That should have been enough cause for her to be ejected from her job.
When the Metropolitan Police issued questionnaires to Downing Street staff and politicians in the wake of the Partygate scandal, Braverman was asked if fines would lead to resignations. Her response was to have an apparent breakdown in the Commons chamber:
She responded to a legitimate question with nonsense – and failed to answer the question itself.
Robert Jenrick?
He broke housing rules to save his mate Richard Desmond £50 million; he broke lockdown rules to visit his spare homes and see his family; he voted against safety procedures for tower blocks in the wake of the Grenfell Tragedy
… among many other misdemeanours.
Priti Patel? She was forced to resign from Theresa May’s cabinet after trying to run her own foreign policy in league with Israel. Returning as Home Secretary, she launched the Rwanda deportation policy that has proved to be a money pit and legislated to remove our right to protest against extremism by our political leaders – among a long list of offences.
James Cleverly? He was once described as “the Tories’ go-to eejit when they need someone to tweet absolute nonsense or defend the indefensible”. He recently got into hot water when it was alleged that he described Stockton as a sh*thole, and for saying he gave his wife Rohypnol to stop her from leaving him – among a similarly long list of offences.
Kemi Badenoch? One of the most right-wing Tory MPs.
And Mel Stride himself was the Work and Pensions Secretary who wanted to make it even more difficult for disabled people to claim benefits, and to create “bootcamps” to push people into jobs that might not pay enough for them to live.
It’s a real rogues’ gallery. One has to question the sanity of the voters who made it possible for these charmers to stand for the job, by putting them back into Parliament at all.
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Iain Duncan Smith will NOT be interim Tory leader
It seems we’ve all been given a reprieve because Iain Duncan Smith [pictured] will not be interim Tory leader while that party looks for someone to fit the role permanently.
The BBC is reporting that Rishi Sunak has been persuaded to stay on as acting leader until a successor is appointed at the end of a three-month contest.
Why so long? This Writer can only guess that it’s to work out an election system that allows members to vote but doesn’t give them the opportunity to let loonies like Liz Truss have a go.
Buy Cruel Britannia in print here. Buy the Cruel Britannia ebook here. Or just click on the image!
Considering the list of possible candidates, this may be a challenge.
All of them have black marks against their names – as This Writer has mentioned in the past:
Robert Jenrick?
… among many other misdemeanours.
Priti Patel? She was forced to resign from Theresa May’s cabinet after trying to run her own foreign policy in league with Israel. Returning as Home Secretary, she launched the Rwanda deportation policy that has proved to be a money pit and legislated to remove our right to protest against extremism by our political leaders – among a long list of offences.
James Cleverly? He was once described as “the Tories’ go-to eejit when they need someone to tweet absolute nonsense or defend the indefensible”. He recently got into hot water when it was alleged that he described Stockton as a sh*thole, and for saying he gave his wife Rohypnol to stop her from leaving him – among a similarly long list of offences.
Kemi Badenoch? One of the most right-wing Tory MPs.
And Mel Stride himself was the Work and Pensions Secretary who wanted to make it even more difficult for disabled people to claim benefits, and to create “bootcamps” to push people into jobs that might not pay enough for them to live.
It’s a real rogues’ gallery. One has to question the sanity of the voters who made it possible for these charmers to stand for the job, by putting them back into Parliament at all.
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