A modest proposal for the Conservative Party: - Write the names of every current Conservative MP on a slip of paper. - Put the slips of paper in a big hat. - Pull out a slip of paper. - Oh ****, it's Rees-Mogg, put it back, put it back. - Draw another slip of paper. - If that person has not had a scandal or been in Cabinet (but I repeat myself) in the last 90 days, they are your new leader. I can say with 99% confidence that this will result in a better choice than their current process.
We’re basically Italy with worse food, less opera, and not in the EU. And we don’t even win international football tournaments. I can live without opera though, personally. So it’s not all bad.
With any luck, the majority of Conservative members will be unable to access the internet, without the help of their grandchildren, so I confidently expect Iggle Piggle to win a resounding majority.
What is happening in the UK and its choice of Prime Ministers contrasts quite sharply with Spain. For better or worse, FPTP lumbers the UK with a majority party and recently a succession of poor to terrible PMs. In Spain, Sanchez leads a Government composed of an odd collection of parties from the left, each with its own agenda, and sometimes he needs support from the nationalist groups. Despite this odd collective, he has managed to hold things together and has proved himself to be the ultimate statesperson throughtout these difficult times. How does he do it. I suspect he is a very good negotiator and is able to compromise which to my mind is the sign of a mature and more than capable leader. He would be the kind of person that the UK desperately needs.
There has to be a general election. What does this party even stand for anymore? Other than lies and corruption?
I fear lots of people would still vote for that, and the Mail, Express and Sun would all enthusiastically endorse it
How very sad for you. Perhaps you will one day when you have had a wider range of emotional experiences.
We are looking on with utter bemusement here alright. Our government are loving it as it distracts from the utter failure that they have made in areas such as housing and the cost of living. They are saying, sure it could be worse! Hope ye get a GE very soon as you don't deserve this ****show
Particularly if their (according to them affable) rogue manages to persuide enough Conservative MPs to endorse him, despite throwing him out back in the summer. It just beggars belief!!
enjoy reading your views Ian, however and despite all their disunity I feel the Conservatives will remin as "one party" since to lose the "Conservative" banner would be the death knell for which ever element chose to break away under the FPTP system. I will concede it would be healthier all round if this happened but unlike you, I think the hard right will get stronger while the soft right withers away, something that has happened in France, Italy,, Hungary, and even Germany.
By the way, despite having been already debated in one of the cleaners’ cupboards in Westminster, and only attended by one of the governing party, the petition demanding an immediate General Election still continues to amass signatures. 718,000 and rising…
Boris is now neck and neck with Sunak as the bookies favourite to replace Truss. Yesterday he was something like 25/1. Now he's around evens.
