Tories lining up for leadership are an idiot, a warmonger and a crook(?)
It seems the Tories lining up for leadership are an idiot, a warmonger and a crook.
First to throw his hat into the ring was James Cleverly, who has been nicknamed ‘Stupidly’ because of his ineptitude.
I recently wrote of him that 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.
Next up was Tom Tugendhat, about whom I have said, “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.”
And now Robert Jenrick has joined the contest. Of him, I wrote, “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.”
I believe the term for the choice facing Conservatives at the moment is “trilemma”, meaning all three options are bad.
Personally, I would invite any Tory backbencher who has either not been in Parliament before July 5 or not served in any of the disastrous governments of the last 14 years to have a go – because they’re not tainted by involvement in anything that has already happened. Who knows? They might even have a few innovative or useful ideas.
Anyway, they have until Monday (July 29) to get their nominations in, and with a limit of 10 MPs and only three having applied so far, there appear to be plenty of slots to fill.
After that, there’s a long wait until September, when MPs get to vote on which four candidates they want to shortlist.
Then there’s another wait for the Conservative Party Conference. That’s between September 29 and October 2, when the four candidates make their final pitches and MPs select the two from whom they will ask the party membership to choose a leader.
Party members then get to vote in an online ballot that runs until the end of October.
The new leader will be named on November 2.
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The Tories are about to enter a period of at least two terms in opposition. Not because the Labour Party have anything to offer but rather it’ll take that long for the electorate to forget their crimes. Therefore their leader is irrelevant. Unless, of course, they are EXCEPTIONALLY good or bad. With any sense the membership will choose a boring leader who can string a sentence together without being racist – come to think on it, quite a tall order..
sounds like contenders to replace Starmer!
It is always interesting to visit the Conservative Home website.
And a recent article by Nigel Gardner really caught my eye.
Here is an extract:
“When I lost in Harpenden and Berkhamsted (and Tring) on 4 July, I garnered 16,574 votes. Now, new research suggests over 2,800 of those who voted for me earlier this month will not vote Tory at the next general election. Not because of any policy or scandal – but because they will be dead.
In a sobering statistic for Conservative survivors, some 17 per cent of those who voted Tory this time will have died by the time MPs face the electorate again, according to analysis from Focaldata. That is 1.2 million fewer Tory voters lost purely as a result of demography, one in six of the total Tory vote will no longer with us by 2029.
Meanwhile, Labour will gain around 300,000 votes as another cohort of young people turn 18. Ceteris paribus, that means the Conservative Party will lose another 34 seats at the next election, taking it down to well below a hundred MPs…”
Don’t forget Jenrick’s attempt (with Jake Berry) to subvert Town’s Fund monies by signing off each others applications for which there was no validity. And this is what we actually know about!
It’s going to be a long five years for the Tories, an awful lot has to go wrong for Labour for them to reduce the term. Why would any prospective Tory leader taint his/her reputation from day one. Cleverley, Tugendhat and Jenrick may, just may, have the ability to bury the Tories forever. Let’s hope so!