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I’ve been looking at the Tory runners and riders. I’d be okay with either Hunt or Tugendhat. I’d be ambivalent about Wallace. The one I’d hate is Truss. She is thick as they come, mentally unstable and also likely to use her Thatcher Tribute Act to try and win an early election. She’s a bigger danger than Boris IMHO.

My two criteria for the next leader are:

1. How much good can they do in the short term?
2. Are they likely to win another election, given that I want the Tories out.

Truss is bottom on both, as I fear she would do a lot of harm with populist bribes before an early election. We’d be stuck with 5 years of utter danger and economic ruin.

Top on both is actually Sunak.

1. He made very good calls on furlough and economic support packages when they were needed. He was brave, inventive and clever. He won’t bow to populist calls to get us in deep debt with vote-courting tax cuts when it’s the wrong thing to do.

2. He’s very unlikely to get re-elected unless he does marvellously well. If he does, I’d want him to stay. However capable he is, folk now know Sunak’s been plotting since December 21, so he’s not a nice guy. He’s also a tax dodger and a liar as shown by his non-dom history and his green card. Boris won lots of red wall moron votes by wrapping himself in our ludicrous flag. Sunak has zero chance of doing that when his wife is looking to live in India and he’s got one and a half feet in the USA. He’d also split the Tories as the Boris lovers will be after him.

So there we have it. I’ve even surprised myself. If someone else emerges with better credentials, I’d consider them, but for now it’s Sunak.

Perfect evidence as to why Patel is just as unfit fir office as Boris:


Priti Patel’s plan to end Channel crossings in disarray as Navy threatens to ‘walk away’
Official figures reveal that number of refugees crossing in small boats has doubled since military brought in

The Royal Navy is threatening to “walk away” from Boris Johnson and Priti Patel’s plan to stem the number of boats carrying asylum seekers across the Channel as official data shows how spectacularly the policy has backfired.
Defence chiefs are said to be fed up with trying to enact the prime minister and home secretary’s rapidly imploding plan of using the military to control small boats in the Channel.
Ministry of Defence data shows crossings have close to doubled since the military was given “primacy” over the issue from mid-April compared with the first three months of this year.
Patel and Johnson were warned that deploying the Royal Navy would be likely to increase the number of crossings but ignored expert advice because, according to internal sources, they wanted to appear tough.

One former defence minister told the Observer that their miscalculation had guaranteed the navy was effectively providing an “efficient taxi service” for asylum seekers.

Meanwhile, senior Home Office sources have admitted the UK could receive up to 60,000 people by small boat this year – double last year’s record – with another 20,000 arriving by different routes, undermining the credibility of Patel, who has made reducing crossings her priority.

Patel will be grilled by the home affairs select committee this Wednesday on Channel crossings, the lack of safe, legal passage to the UK and her Rwanda asylum plan. The government has spent significant sums trying to remove asylum seekers to east Africa, but has yet to deport a single person.

Defence chiefs hope Johnson’s resignation is an opportunity to scrap the Channel initiative as it also ties up resources at a time of escalating international security threats. Tobias Ellwood, Conservative chair of the influential defence committee, which has completed a damning inquiry into the use of the military in the Channel, said: “I know the MoD really wants to walk away from this, wants this to conclude. There’ll be less political pressure now. The prime minister is going.”

The former soldier added: “From my personal perspective, I can say this is a complete waste of naval time. The navy is already overstretched.”

Just been looking up that Mordaunt woman. Don’t like her one bit. If anything she’s worse than Truss. “Cruella” the Braver man and that other no-mark female nobody has heard of have got no chance, but I do worry about Truss and Mordaunt.

I really desperately hope we don’t get another woman PM. As a breed, I think they are usually psychologically unhinged. They take everything personally and can’t separate logic from emotion. They bear grudges for life and never forgive. They also treat information on the basis of who is providing it, rather than its relative merits. The very last thing we need right now is another woman.

If one or two of the better ones get knocked out, I might yet vote for him lol.

Not me. The Tory Right are despicable loons. On that note, looks like Zahawi is another tax dodging rogue.

From The Observer:

A “flag” was raised by officials over the financial affairs of the new chancellor, Nadhim Zahawi, before he was promoted, the Observer can reveal.

Civil servants in the Cabinet Office’s propriety and ethics team are said to have alerted Boris Johnson to a HM Revenue and Customs “flag” over Zahawi before his appointment. The PM appointed him despite the possible concerns over his tax affairs.

“It’s extraordinary that flags were raised ahead of Nadhim’s appointment by the Downing Street proprietary team,” one source said this weekend. “These sorts of concerns would stop someone receiving an MBE or OBE. The idea he could be chancellor or even prime minister is unbelievable”.

Not much news about Ukraine. Someting i do think, they are useless twotz no matter how much fire power we send them. & we have wasted to much money throwing it at them doing so.