So what a success Liz Truss was as a PM. Not. Our "I'm not a quitter" impoverished Leeds Roundhay school educated ex-leader appears to have, well there's no easy way of sugar coating this, quit.
Of course, some are painting this recent unfortunate history as being something about her or Kwasi Kwarteng's failings. The Conservatives call to their own and to us is: to pull together; put the country first; choose somebody competent to be the next PM. Some reports in the media are that, if more than one candidate gets more than 100 MPs support, then Conservative party members might be involved again in picking our PM.
Meanwhile the blessed Boris's name is being mentioned again. What doesn't seem to have occured to his backers is that, given his anticipated speaking and journalist fees, Boris can't afford to be PM again. So just like that expensive wallpaper issue, maybe some rich Tory backer needs to come forward to top up a Boris PM's salary.
Against all of this spin and miss-direction, lets get a couple of things straight.
1) The Conservative party is putting its own, not the country's future first.
2) Conservative members voted Liz Truss in, so their credentials as talent spotters are zero.
3) Conservative MPs supported Boris way after it was clear he had broken the law and did not understand the concept of truth. So their ability to speak truth to power seems limited.
4) The following miss-named Think Tanks all thought the mini-budget was a great idea - Institute of Economic Affairs, Taxpayers Alliance, Adam Smith Institute and Centre for Policy Studies. Lets hope when the media invites their input in future the first question is always, "So why did you welcome Liz Truss's mini -budget?"
What we need now, we are told, is a serious, competent conservative leader to lead us forward with a validated economic plan for more glorious years of conservative rule.
Indeed, some are calling for an election now, which of course won't happen. And opponents of the conservatives may well wish for two more years of chaos, so the opinion polls can go negative on support for the Conservatives.
Which leaves us with the uncomfortable reality of what its like for the rest of us. Food prices are up, energy prices are up, borrowing costs are up, housing costs are up, waiting lists for healthcare are up, vacancies in health care, social care, crop picking and hospitality sectors are all up. And thats not rhetoric from the anti-growth coalition, its the quaint and apparently unwelcomed facts and truth.
After 12 years the conservatives have run out of credible costed ideas to make a difference, they have run out of credible experienced individuals to form a government, and. according to opinion polls, they have run out of the public's support for their approach to governing.
Their Humpty Dumpty self absorbed, self serving, self honouring, self privileging, self profiting approach to politics has fallen off the wall and can't be put back together again, however many king's horses and men they dedicate to that task. The Kings comment on all of this .. "Dear oh dear, anyway .... "
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