When I was a child, my ma told me that her experience had been that when people get fully pissed off (my paraphrase) with one government, they get shoved out, and the other lot get a go. Despite all the hifalutin’ bs, that’s the reality of the extent of ‘democracy’ that we have here. So it has seemed to me too, watching over the intervening years.
It seems now that the Ides-of-March-style assassination of the dumkopf incompetent Johnson has just delivered its final, lethal stabs.
But FFS! Does that mean that before too long we shall be getting a Starmer premiership - on what: twenty percent of the electorate? - before too long; after the Official Tories have finally finished disappearing up their own fundaments? Starmer? As an adequate replacement for Bozo? Good god!
I wouldn’t be surprised. Whoever gets their turn at bat I sense a doubling down on “for your safety” ruses will be imminent. Bojo has played his part: no head for details, never could get a grip on Corona, runs off at the mouth, etc.
Not convinced that it’s Kieth’s innings quite yet. Here’s a gratis campaign slogan: Give Gove a Go.
Would the Officials really be blind enough not to grasp the widespread dislike of Gove?
And would he, in fact, pull their fortunes out of the fire by turning out, to lots of people’s surprise, to be a moderately competent premier? Maybe he’d have what it takes to say: ‘Enough with Ukraine! That’s lost. Waste no more blood and treasure on it. We have more urgent problems.’
The whirligig of time is full of these little surprises.
I doubt that, Rhis. I don’t reckon the Western pocket pols have any say on the big issues such as 'rona and Ukraine - - they’ve got their orders, and presumably some quota - how moderately/roughly they play out those immovable feasts to their respective constituencies is about the only leeway they have. And you know it!
I do, Si; it’s true. I just wonder whether a cynical chancer like Gove would be the one who does what someone has to do in British politics now: face up to the (to them) shattering realisation that their masters in the Swamp are a) off their heads; and much more importantly, are b) haemorrhaging their previous allegedly-hegemonic global power, so that Britain now simply has to cut loose from it’s dying US master, and actually face up to the heavily-changed realities, like a sober grown-up: The abject capitulation of the English-raj class over Suez finally reversed, sixty-odd years later perhaps…?
That escape and drastic re-positioning in the world is, after all, the best chance that the vastly over-crowded and under-resourced Britain has of weathering the period of deeeeep doo-doo that we’re now entering. We simply have to start building cordial relations with the sino-rus duopoly now, for example; and with the whole global South. Some slippery, hyper-pliable politician is going to have to slither out of his/her familiar containing pocket, and face up to these realities. It might even be Gove…? Bullingdon hasn’t exactly come up with the goods, has it? A cynical Scottish accent-changing bradwr comprador might do a better job.
I dislike the thought intensely, btw. But it might happen.
It’s not as if the twats don’t know these cold realities in the backs of their minds; the brighter ones, anyway; possibly not Woodentop, though…
The point of Gove, whether or not he reveals hidden depths/competence, will be to make Starmer look like a warm and down to earth guy by comparison. So he is the perfect candidate and will, I’m sure, be backed by those willing to play the longer game. Gove v Truss, with Raab, Javid and maybe even Rishi Rich in the stalls to begin with. This gives the shadowy eminences time to prep Ron De Santis and/or the lovely Tulsi, depending on how the winds are blowing in the US, with the next UK GE sewn up as a gimme for Keef.
But bear in mind every year I think to myself hey: Pompey might have a good year, this year
Bloody hell! The thought of an utter incompetent like Herringface Truss - even making Bozo seem on the ball - seriously putting herself up for ‘leadership material’ is just too grotesque to give it credit. Yet don’t we sense this is the daydream she hugs to herself these days; following in Thatcher’s poisoned footsteps! HowTF do we entranced punters put up with such a pig’s breakfast of a ‘democracy’?
I cannot believe how people like Fishhead can get into such high positions in government. It’s as if the undermanager at the local woolworths has overdone it on LSD and is suddenly transported to the Kremlin to make a fool of herself in front of Putin with some ridiculous idea in her addled brain that she’s the foreign secretary. But she IS the foreign secretary!
Alexander Mercuris on Bozo the catastrophic overfed oaf Johnson from 18 minutes in:
The UK Column Extra yesterday discussed this and there seemed to be a fatalistic consensus that Truss might well rise through the pack. The Head Girl Factor was mentioned, but the more persuasive argument was that she will reliably read out whatever PowerPoint slides are put in front of her. Not the exact words used, but I have to admit that if leadership consists of accurately and quickly responding to the strings being pulled then, yes, she has what it takes. The utter humourlessness is probably another asset, whereas Gove is at least intelligent.
As a P.S. to the above I see that our local MP Helen Whateley, who has always had the brownest of noses (and another of those Head Girl types) has belatedly joined the latest batch of resigners. Game over Alexander.
Somehow the last part of the final sentence was omitted: “…apart from my immediate neighbours perpetually whining about my trees blocking their sunlight”.
For some reason… I am persuaded that it won’t be; Kwarteng, Javid or Sunak…can’t really say why…
Of-course all those here should know that all this is just the cr*p floating on the top…; “Spread out!..Lie on your Back Boris!”
The current Irish situation is instructive…; “Got Brexit done!” My arse!!! They all seem to spew it on and in the media…bl**dy English elitism…the over privileged protestant establishment. Why should Irish Loyalists have any respect for it? Would Cromwell?
Otherwise Engaged?
“No, no Witham Council! We said we wanted a cycle path next to the road!”
G, your post brings to mind the opening of the sewage delivery system between Bradford and Esholt in 1926 - to mark the occasion, a fleet of (Bradford manufactured) Jowett cars spirited a bunch of councillors and other ‘dignitaries’ from Frizinghall in Bradford through the subterranean tunnels to the sewage treatment plant - hilariously, the Bradford Telegraph and Argus reporting the event carried the photo below with the caption (paraphrasing from memory) ‘Esholt Sewage Treatment Works takes delivery of its first intake’.
I await with a decided lack of interest for the next load of effluence to be delivered across the No. 10 threshold!!
Loving the way Kieth is threatening a no confidence vote for Tuesday but chances are the 1922 committee will celebrate their centenary with a rule change and a decisive kick to the rear on Monday with runners and riders all cued up to put their papers in well before then. In fact I have a sneak preview of an early candidate right here:
