Going from bad PM to even worse
THE Tory Party is so ruthless and selfserving it will topple a bad prime minister in favour of a worse one.
As Theresa May begins her last full week in power before walking out of No10, nothing it appears can stop Boris Johnson walking in.
Yet a new poll today shows that nearly twothirds of voters think the man who failed to support our ambassador in Washington will make a lousy ambassador for Britain.
And even 47 per cent of Tory supporters do not believe he is up to the job that Tory members are about to give him.
Looking in from abroad, other countries must wonder whether the British have lost their marbles.
Mr Johnson remains favourite for two reasons. Tory members think he has the best chance of defeating Jeremy Corbyn. And they believe he will deliver Brexit by October 31.
That the consummate joker is himself a joke does not bother them.
Now it is inevitable he will be as much a failure with Brexit as Mrs May was.
The only way Mr Johnson can deliver Brexit is with a disastrous No Deal. And the only way to deliver No Deal is by cancelling Parliament.
We are fortunate that Britain is not yet a dictatorship. MPs will not allow him to do either. That means Mr Johnson’s premiership is doomed to failure, and by this time next year another PM will be in place.
Mrs May might have a tear in her eye now. But she’ll be laughing on the other side of her face soon.
YOU’VE got to hand it to Arriva. When it comes to paying bosses, they run a firstclass service.
The company which owns shambolic Northern Rail handed its CEO an extra £256,000 and more than £2million to directors.
Oh, and its German shareholders trousered £ 92million which could have gone into improving services. Yet passengers struggle on unreliable, overcrowded trains – if they can find a train at all. Travellers to Manchester, Liverpool, Blackpool and the Lake District have seen 165 services axed,
Mayors Andy Burnham and Steve Rotherham want Arriva stripped of its franchise. We would go one stage further.
Take trains back into public ownership so the public can get the service they deserve.