The passage of time in Wellington and elsewhere
The procession continues for BJ.
He is incompetent and continues to lie and say all things to all people. Anything for a vote.
His victory is expected. Hunt has tried to emulate him by appearing more right wing, and intolerant but just looks like he is just bending in the wind.
To quote Fraser in Dad’s Army-We’re all doomed!
Clearly who reports it is the most important thing and their political leanings, and certainly, the political leanings of the media outlet.
Theresa May resigned as leader of he party a few weeks ago. So the contest has already started to replace her. She remains PM until the next leader is decided.
Today was round 2 with one of the Brexit- ultras being eliminated- Dominic Raab. He is the one who suggested who would prorogue parliament in order to ensure a ‘no deal’ Brexit. Democracy eh?
Johnson remains in the lead and is the hot favourite to win though his quietness and absence from the ‘hustings’ has been notable. Accusations of avoidance have been multiple. He has been given an easy ride by the right wing fanboy press.
And now as I write there is a tv ‘debate’ on. Stewart is the outsider but has some traction as he is the only one who is not spouting Brexit dreams and unicorns. It says much that Jeremy Hunt is regarded as the sensible middle ground. God protect us!
I am using my living hours instead to watch Brazil v Italy in the Women’s World Cup. Much better value.
We did our little bit to support the march. We arrived on time and stood for two hours before finding a point to join the route. Amazingly met Nige and Trish at Hyde Park Corner. It was good to put in the effort and show your position. Others came from much further afield and so very much engaged in the protest.
Will it all make a differnce?
The politics currently is so chaotic and nasty- who knows. Maybe just helps to show that there is a large committed number who do not accept the path proposed by TM and the rest and so the the outcome should be moderated. Cannot have no- deal exit.
Theresa May slags off everyone and blames all but herself for the chaos. Populist and snide. Not acknowledgement of her role and juvenile in in its simplification of the whole situation, again presenting everything as so binary and simple. No leadership and no credibility.
History will not treat her well. She has been a poor planner, negotiator and leader throughout. This is a new low- but can she go lower?
A acerbic article giving her views on TM;
Yet her national address suggested that for all her well-established limitations, her thermonuclear dullness, and her mesmerisingly repressed inability to divulge even whether she mildly prefers Sherlock or Midsomer Murders, Theresa May is in fact an extremely dangerous individual whose priorities are now so far out of whack, she shouldn’t be anywhere near the controls of this particular automobile.
It is not simply the prime minister behaving in this historically irresponsible way but her advisers too. The whole of the inner station is rotten. The only person who could have saluted it is aspiring memoirist David Cameron, who now has an excellent chance of being considered only the second worst prime minister since one or other of the great 18th-century inbreds (probably Lord North).
And Corbyn does not escape:
Not that you’d theoretically rule out both records being smashed by Jeremy Corbyn, whose Brexit strategy, even at the hour of peril, amounts to looking present but not involved. The Labour leader’s decision to leave a cross-party crisis meeting because Chuka Umunna was there confirmed him as a small and peevish man, who wouldn’t have what it takes if the chips were down.