The latest news from the Tory leadership campaign is firstly the six candidates have all decided there is no place in the Party for Nigel Farage. Even the hindu dwarf said it was a broad church and Nigel would be welcome. Secondly there are now moves afoot to get the question resolved by October 30th so the new Führer is in place ready to reply to the budget that will be announced around that time by Rachel Thieves. It has also been pointed out that with the American Presidential election on November 5th there would be a bit of a clash for the poor old overworked journalists to figure out. The only puzzle is why they hadn’t discerned that by the time they announced the original date.
Initially Kemi Badenoch went on the offensive, attacking quite a few other contenders and each time she then rather hypocritically said we don’t want any of this kind of behaviour. A fiercely ambitious woman with few redeeming features as far as I can see. Once the various contenders had put their name forward, it sort of settled into a phoney war. Wiser heads had seen that kicking lumps out of each other was not helping the Tory brand to recover; it will take many years before that happens.
When this fiasco kicked off there was a bit of a debate about whether a long or a short campaign would be best. Luminaries such as CallMeDave and Billy boy Hague along with a few others including the new Chairman of the 1922 committee were in favour of a leisurely timescale, a few others, but not many, wanted to get it over and done with as soon as possible.
Unsurprisingly the luminaries won and we now see NikNak swanning about in Santa Monica and the six candidates sniping infrequently at each other. One of the major, if not only, functions of His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition is to hold the government to account. With what looks like nobody in charge, Keith and his cohorts have been stomping all over our liberties and implementing something like the former German Democratic Republic in our green and pleasant land. Scarcely a word has been raised in protest, the Tories being conspicuous in that respect. The party that has been closest to holding Keith’s feet to the fire has been Reform UK, this lends credence to Nigel Farage’s claim that Reform would be the opposition. You can’t really expect Ed Davey to object to steps he would love to take himself.
The only deduction we can make from this is that all 3 major parties are in favour of what has been going on. I fail to see how what looks very much like the government instructing the judiciary and plod in what they want to see happen passes without a murmur. The supposedly independent judges and police have been compliant in this respect. There has been talk of malfeasance in public office at the very least. We will not see any charges brought against any of these offenders, for offenders they surely are. In fact the judges involved in this disgrace have a record of being very lenient to paedophiles when it comes to handing out jail time. Far be it from me to suggest there has been any coercion.
This administration should be getting hell for banging up middle aged ladies who have posted something quite stupid on faceache. Two Tier Keir looks more and more like Multiple Tier Keir where those he approves of get away with just about anything while those he calls the far right are getting hammered. The objective of making us fearful of saying anything at all is gaining traction. Walter Ulbricht, Erich Honeker and Marcus Wolff would feel right at home in this country.
Each move by the government has probably been long planned. First they blame the Tories for the dire state of the economy which will require massive tax rises to fix, socialists love to increase taxes so long as they don’t have to pay them. The latest stats show the economy is not quite as bad as Labour say. There has already been an exodus of billionaires and millionaires. Then we had the cry of the jails are full. OK, let’s get a few lags out on early release. A real just in time move because it was swiftly followed by the so-called far right riots and the persecution of not just idiots involved in violence but people who happened to be there. Does nobody in the House of Commons smell a rat ?
NikNak should be hammering away at these charlatans but he prefers Michelin starred restaurants in Santa Monica. There has been no condemnation of him being AWOL and not representing his constituents whereas Nigel Farage has been pilloried day and night for not being permanently in Clacton during the parliamentary recess.
We can only conclude that Labour have another ten weeks where they can do anything they like with little or no scrutiny. I pray Keith does not decide to openly involve our troops in the mess that is Ukraine. It is obvious some are already there but if we can keep that reasonably quiet we may just avoid the Russians attacking us. Ever since Maggie won two elections on the back of the Falklands campaign, many of our subsequent Prime Ministers have felt the need of reflected military glory without choosing where to intervene sensibly. Two of the worst offenders in this respect have been Satan Blair and his self-professed heir, CallMeDave.
Most of us will normally be in favour of seeing and hearing as little as possible from our politicians. The missing in action leader of the Tories is an obvious exception to this rule.
Just to prove me wrong James Cleverly has put his head above the parapet and claimed Labour are losing control of public sector pay. For once in his miserable life James is correct. Those of us oldies who were around in the seventies are well aware of what comes next. ASLEF, having just been awarded a most undeserved pay rise are still in dispute with LNER and are planning a series of strikes on the London Edinburgh route. RMT are now demanding what ASLEF got. The Border Farce staff at Heathrow are going to strike for most of September and the list is only growing. I can feel nostalgia for the seventies but not in respect of industrial relations. The public sector unions are forming a so far orderly queue with wage demands. It will quickly turn into a stampede as the grown ups who hold the purse strings cave in to demand after demand from their paymasters.
As the Tories struggle on there will be a couple of votes before the Party Conference to remove two of the contenders, the final four will then make their pitch during the Party Conference and after that there will be more votes to decide who wins. None of these contenders fill me with inspiration and most of the electorate will feel the same. The road to redemption will be long and painful for the blue side and none of them acknowledge that fact, at least not yet. Reform are creeping up in the polls and what we really need are a few by elections to remind the Tories just how unpopular they still are.
I really must do an article about the party conferences. We, the electorate, are again being harangued for being workshy by politicians who would not know a day’s work if it bit them on the bum. They lose one month each year with this conference nonsense. Why not hold them during the summer recess which is far too long and seems based on the University holidays. No other group of workers in this land get so much time off for holidays bar University dons and lecturers. In terms of holidays, tax breaks and expenses MPs are in a league of their own. They don’t even call their holidays by their real name instead preferring to call them a recess.
If Brian Rix was still around he would be furious that his wasn’t the only Whitehall Farce in town.
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