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Rishi Sunak will be next UK prime minister – as Vox Political predicted

Rishi Sunak will be crowned as the next Conservative leader and prime minister after Penny Mordaunt dropped out of the leadership contest at the last minute – and This Site predicted it last week.

1922 Committee chairman Graham Brady said: “We have received one valid nomination. Rishi Sunak is therefore elected as leader of the Conservative Party.”

There was thunderous applause:

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Judicial review demanded on Tory way of electing leaders

After concerns were raised about the apparent ‘open door’ policy of the Conservative Party that seems to mean foreign powers could influence who becomes our prime minister if the choice goes to party members, an application for a judicial review has been launched.

As it happens, the current leadership contest may not go to an election by members, so for now the question may be academic.

But that doesn’t mean Tory rules don’t need to be tightened – and the best time is always now.

Here are the details:

“We registered Archie, our pet tortoise, as a member; a couple of foreign nationals; then Margaret Roberts, the maiden name of the late Lady Thatcher. The Conservative Party took the £25 membership fee. We got membership numbers and were invited to hustings.”

Damning.

Let’s hope the courts allow the judicial review.

We should look forward to learning the result.

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Did you know: anyone from anywhere in the world can become a Tory and choose our PM?

It seems anybody, living anywhere in the world, can become a Conservative Party member and choose our new prime minister – if they pay a low membership fee.

This means, as George Monbiot suggests, that a foreign state could set up thousands of memberships in order to meddle with the result.

Is this open invitation for foreign governments to mess with our politics a form of treason?

Consider:

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Are Tories so desperate they’re looking to corrupt crooked clown Boris Johnson for salvation?

Boris Johnson: here he is pictured as millions see him in the UK and across the world.

This morning I woke up to find this stuff all over my Twitter feed:

What a lot of rubbish!

Boris Johnson was a corrupt crook who partied when there was work to be done and let the country down shockingly. He appointed deeply questionable people into positions of power and it was one of those appointments that finally brought him down. He belongs nowhere near the corridors of power.

Furthermore, he is the subject of an investigation that could lead to his expulsion from Parliament. This Writer mentioned yesterday that it would hardly be a good look for the Tory Party if its latest choice of prime minister is booted out for previous misdemeanours.

And the backlash has been strong:

Look at some of the replies to the tweets above:

That’s about the size of it – right?

Johnson is reportedly returning to the UK from the Caribbean holiday mentioned above:

The video commentators are all over this, their words running from ridicule…

… to reasoned analysis…

… to the deranged:

Meanwhile, there’s a moderate groundswell for This Site’s predicted winner, Rishi Sunak:

… and a moderate groundswell against him:

Some people are even getting behind “nasty” Penny Mordaunt, who turned many against her by denying that Liz Truss was “hiding under a table”:

None of them do!

Commentators are calling the new Tory leadership campaign a return to the “Boris Johnson psychodrama” – and that is a problem in itself.

If he campaigns to be leader again, the UK will be sucked back into the vortex of his lies, corruption and incompetence. We’ll have another two years of misery while he raves it up at the public expense.

That in itself should be reason for him to be rejected.

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Vox Political predicts the results of the Tory leadership election

Tory twisters: it seems to This Writer that they are now trying to cheat their own party membership out of electing the candidate they want.

It seems the plan at the moment is to hold a hustings on Monday, with three candidates participating. These characters must have managed to accumulate at least 100 nominations from among Conservative MPs. That’s a five-fold increase from the 20 they had to get in the summer leadership campaign.

Of these, two will be presented to the wider membership of the Conservative Party – if two remain in the race. Remember when Theresa May became leader? The other candidate dropped out and she had a coronation instead of an election.

Boris Johnson seems unlikely to get onto the ballot paper – despite a large campaign for him among Tory members and supporters. He’s unlikely to get the 100 votes he would need. And besides, there’s an investigation hanging over his head that may possibly see him ejected from Parliament altogether.

How ridiculous would the government look if their new leader was subsequently expelled for prior misdemeanours?

As Professor Tim Wilson suggests (below), it is likely that party chairman Jake Berry and 1922 Committee chairman Graham Brady are hoping the Parliamentary party will coalesce behind a single candidate, thereby depriving party members of the opportunity to select another clunker like Liz Truss. Watch:

This theory – that a single candidate should be chosen – seems corroborated in this Sky News item:

Who does This Writer think will be crowned next week?

Rishi Sunak.

Other commentators have already commented on his silence throughout the disasters of Liz Truss’s leadership – suggesting that someone in a grey suit may have had a word with him, to sit tight and stay quiet, and he’ll get something nice further down the line.

Also, he was the runner-up in the last leadership race, so some of the Tory grandees might think it’s only fair. And he’s continuity Johnson…

Is he the right man for the job? Absolutely not.

The UK needs a general election – that much is abundantly clear. Confidence in the Tories has nose-dived; they have binned the manifesto on which they won the 2019 election and therefore they have no mandate to continue.

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The status quo – that Liz Truss said was ‘not an option’ – funded her Tory leadership campaign

Money: Liz Truss had half a million pounds in funding for her Tory leadership campaign – almost twice the permitted amount. It came from hedge fund bosses, bankers and business leaders – the “status quo” that she warned against in her two-faced Conservative Party conference speech.

Remember this, from Liz Truss’s keynote speech at the Conservative Party conference, only yesterday?

Today we discover that, not only is it an option for her, but it was her first option when seeking funding for her campaign to be leader of the Conservative Party – and prime minister by default:

These are people who will now consider it their right to make demands of the UK’s prime minister, ensuring that she does what they tell her – because she owes them her job.

Crucially:

The prime minister, who has made a virtue of being pro-business and cutting taxes, saw a further round of donations declared on the register of MPs’ interests on Wednesday.

The second tranche of donations takes the amount she has received to more than £500,000 – way above the campaign spending limit of £300,000.

So she broke the campaign’s rules.

Doesn’t that make her candidacy invalid? Shouldn’t she be resigning right about now, rather than jetsetting around the world on a prime ministerial jolly?

Source: Liz Truss raised £500,000 for bid to be leader, register of interests reveals | Politics | The Guardian

Who will replace Liz Truss if her time is already up?

The argument is very clear: Liz Truss’s government reckons none of the disasters that have befallen the UK since Kwasi Kwarteng’s ‘fiscal event’ last Friday have had anything to do with what he said and, faced with that ignorance, her own party should ditch her.

Sure, she’s got another 49 weeks to go (technically) before she can be challenged according to the rules – but the rules can be changed.

The problem is: who can replace her?

Boris Johnson put himself in a position where the Tories thought anybody would be better – and have now been proved wrong.

But after Truss, anybody really would be better. And who’s the favourite to replace her?

Boris Johnson.

Here’s a more in-depth analysis:

Only one thing is sure in this situation.

The UK is teetering on the brink of a political apocalypse – and our future is in the hands of a gang of imbeciles.

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Liz Truss will be the UK’s new prime minister. Good luck, everybody!

Triumph for her – tragedy for us: Liz Truss.

Well, that’s that, then. The UK is doomed.

Liz Truss is the new leader of the Conservative Party – and prime minister of the country.

Tory members have replaced a liar with a fool. Prepare for a barrage of daft policy announcements – with nothing for you.

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How will Rishi Sunak be ‘much tougher’ on benefits’? Doesn’t he know they’re MURDEROUS already?

Rishi Sunak: attacking benefit claimants is a classic Tory ploy – and another ‘divide-and-rule’ tactic.

I sense desperation – an attempt to play to the Tory benefit-bashing gallery.

Rishi Sunak has said he will be “much tougher” on how the UK’s benefits system operates if he becomes prime minister as he suggested he would force claimants to take jobs when they become available.

How does he plan to do that? By forcing people with long-term illnesses and disabilities into jobs that will kill them faster than the current fashion to simply knock them off the books for no good reason?

Remember, in 2015 I forced the then-Coalition government to admit that, between 2011 and 2014, 2,400 people had lost their lives within two weeks after being told they were too fit to be on sickness benefits. It seems clear that such claims were false.

The government of the day said it was impossible to say how many (thousands?) of people had died after that two-week period because it does not keep such statistics. We know that many have died, though, because we have seen many news stories of such cases.

Alternatively, is he planning to force able-bodied claimants into work – people who, evidence shows, generally try to get out of the system as soon as possible in any case?

Most people, who are able to work, in fact do their level best to get it.

In any case, the matter may be taken out of his hands: firstly, the UK has just recorded its highest intake of foreign workers since Brexit – mostly from beyond the European Union.

The rise has been welcomed by the Bank of England, whose economists had feared that a shortage of people available to work would push up wages and aggravate the recent jump in inflation.

This suggests that everybody from the UK, who is available to work, is already doing so.

However:

Secondly, the dire economic situation the Tories have created means economists are also predicting a recession lasting at least a year, that will trigger many job losses.

The employment opportunities Sunak envisages simply won’t be available.

Still, one can hardly accuse Sunak of making sense on the subject.

At a leadership hustings in Belfast, he said: “Right now, there are more people claiming unemployment benefit than there are job vacancies in the economy. Just think about that for a second. And that is happening under a Conservative government. That is clearly not right, something has gone wrong.

“If there are hours to do, if there is a job going, people should have to take the job as opposed to just being able to stay on benefits.”

But if there are more people unemployed than there are job vacancies, then there aren’t hours to do; there isn’t a job going!

I wonder how many of the Conservative Party’s paltry 130,000-160,000 membership have the critical faculties to realise that he’s talking absolute pish?

Too few, I fear.

Source: Tory leadership hustings: Rishi Sunak vows to be ‘much tougher’ with welfare system to ‘get people off benefits’

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Neither Sunak nor Truss have anything to offer the working class | Beastrabban\’s Weblog

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss: they may be grinning like idiots in this image, but the UK electorate will be the fools if we allow either of them to govern beyond a future generation – that cannot come soon enough (and 2024 is far too far away).

This is an opinion piece but it is well worth reading.

In it, my brother the Beast analyses the Tory leadership contest, its participants, its commentators, and the significance for the rest of us – and finds in it a terrifying prospect for the future of the UK.

You need to read it:

This is a leadership contest in which everyone but a small fraction of the population are just spectators. Which one of them becomes Tory leader is a matter for the Tory party, not the general public, and so while the leadership debates give the general public the chance to see what the candidates stand for, or claim they stand for, and give the media political pundits an opportunity to speculate about what this all means, this mass coverage doesn’t actually affect the public very much.

The usual process now seems to be that instead of having a general election to decide whether a new party leader should be PM, the prime ministerial successor is inserted into office during the term of his immediate predecessor and an election held later to decide whether he or she should continue to rule. Meanwhile the party continues to govern. Thus have the Tories clung on to power over the past ten years, despite prime ministers entering and leaving 10 Downing Street as if through a revolving door.

It’s all done to avoid the perils of a proper general election involving both the head of the party and the party itself, when both may find themselves out of power and sitting on the opposition benches. Thus is democracy in Britain manipulated to the ruling party’s advantage.

As for Sunak and Truss, neither of them has anything really to offer working people. Sunak says he’ll cut inflation, which would help admittedly, but not as much as is needed by people on very low pay, benefits or absolutely zilch, thanks to benefit sanctions, facing rising fuel and energy prices. It’s a policy directed primarily at economists and financiers, but not the starving hoi polloi.

And neither is Truss going to help. She’s announced that she’s going to cut taxes. This will be spun by the Tory papers as somehow meaning ordinary people will be richer. But it won’t mean that. When the Tories cut taxes, it is always for the very rich, never for the poor. And when their taxes are cut, it means that there’s less money coming into the exchequer to support the NHS, public services and the welfare state.

as for cutting down on the bureaucracy in the NHS, this has mushroomed because of the piecemeal privatisation Truss and the rest of the Tory right are so frantically, pantingly keen on. But this is not going to reversed, because the Tory line is that privatisation cuts bureaucracy. What will happen instead is that more services will be privatised and those remaining will be cut.

It doesn’t matter which one wins, Tweedlesunak or Tweedletruss. They will both continue the campaign of privatisation and impoverishment to the mendacious cheering of the Tory media.

Source: Neither Sunak or Truss Have Anything to Offer the Working Class | Beastrabban\’s Weblog

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