Sort it...there’s a country to run!
WHILE the temperature had little difficultly soaring last week, it seemed some top Tories were not so fortunate.and if those in the running to be Conservative Party leader – and therefore of course the prime minister – failed to muster the necessary level of support they were evicted from the race.
The ones who survived were then allowed to continue to slug it out among themselves in this particularly uncivil, civil war.think of it as the Conservative version of “Little Love Lost Island”.
There can be little doubt that the Tories appear to enjoy fighting among themselves as much as they do against Labour.
But here’s a word of warning to the warring parties.
As you continue to try to tear each other apart, a growing number of the electorate are tiring of the whole process – and even starting to hold you all in contempt.
And the reason is startlingly obvious. Remember soaring energy prices, inflation, rail strikes, an overburdened NHS, increases in the cost of living, ludicrously high petrol and diesel costs, Brexit, a possible Covid resurgence, failing airports and something called the war in Ukraine?
Not to mention the future of the entire UK under renewed threat as the SNP pushes for independence again.
Because if you lot don’t, be assured we, the voters, do – and possible solutions to some of the above might be helpful.
The candidates have appeared to dwell on their “back stories”, including where they went to school, their hopes for a rosy future for UK plc, potential tax cuts and who’d be the one “Labour fears the most”.
The last time Boris Johnson featured on this page was when I urged him to regain his sense of humour and rediscover his old, confident, robust persona.
Less than a week later it was all too late, after he’d become the victim of what some see as the most questionable political decision since opting to throw open the doors to the Trojan Horse.
It is of course absolutely right that the Conservatives are permitted the necessary time to search among their ranks for the best man or woman to take over the top job, but they must also realise they are a party that has been in power 12 years.
Each time the latest voting is revealed in the Conservatives’ 1922 committee room, eyes are rolled and tuts are tutted up and down the land in unison as a nation demands: “Just get it sorted.”
And as if that’s not enough of the Tory navel-gazing, we’re also treated on a daily basis to stories and speculation about how the Conservative Right is ganging up against each other or how the centre of the party is supposedly doing
dodgy deals to try to handpick the opponent their candidate must face.
How can it take two months to find a new leader? The Tories should count themselves fortunate the official Opposition is led by someone who struggles to answer whether a woman has a penis and has a strategy of opposing just about everything, but proposing few alternatives.
However, that good fortune can only last so long for the Conservatives.
Courtesy of their internal strife, in the past the country voted for David Cameron and ended up with Theresa May. It then voted for Mrs May and got Boris Johnson.
Having voted – overwhelmingly – for Boris, we now await another imposed PM.
The patience of a nation can only be stretched so far...
THIS is beyond irony!thetour de France was brought to a standstill last week as competitors were blocked by a line of climate change protesters blocking their path. Surely this is one means of transport these eternally grumbling crusties can endorse?
Mind you, they were lucky they weren’t dealt with in the same way some other French demonstrators were a few weeks back, when they tried to block a motorway.
Before the police could get there, furious motorists dragged and bundled them to the side of the road within seconds.vive la difference!