They honestly think we are all fools.
This was my immediate thought as I sat at my work desk once again staring at a lectern outside Downing Street, ready to watch another Conservative Prime Minister resign in disgrace.
I knew that within minutes there would be rampant, excited talk of who would be in line to replace the outgoing Liz Truss. There would be former Chancellors, failed leadership candidates and - no show without punch - probably one Boris Johnson.
There would be very little talk of giving the vast, vast, vast majority of us any single say in who should take on the latest hellscape created by the last one. These people don't really care about democracy, they only care about power.
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Let's take Mr Johnson as a particularly shameless example. This is a man who was dumped out of office by his own MPs just three months ago after becoming mired in a deluge of scandals. He resigned. We now hear he believes it is a matter of "national interest" that he puts his name forward to return. Even by his unabashed standards, this is quite something.
It also says a fair bit about the offerings of the current Conservative Party that a disgraced Prime Minister, dragged from office not three months ago, should emerge as a leading figure to take over from the shambles that followed him.
Whoever it is that now climbs over the toxic wreckage of the Conservative Party to desperately gather up the votes of another tiny selectorate of people will have about as much of a mandate as me if I were to stage a hostile takeover of my local orienteering club despite an acute inability to read maps.
If my metaphors are getting stretched it's because I'm tired and angry. I imagine many of you feel the same. Why should we have to continue to watch this unrelenting psychodrama play out in front of us - and all the damage it is doing to our lives and our hopes - and have absolutely no agency in any of it?
The idea that another Conservative MP could just sidle up - the third in six weeks - and take over as if nothing has happened, after being chosen once again by such a small fraction of people is one that we should all find deeply offensive and undemocratic. It's also staggeringly arrogant.
All I can hear from Tory MPs right now is about what is 'best for the party,' - they aren't even trying to act like this is about the country anymore.
What is really, truly infuriating is that this indulgent chaotic sideshow is playing out at a time when so many people across this country are in peril. Rarely in my lifetime have the people of this country needed support from a stable government more than they do right now. What they have is the complete and utter opposite.
It is high time that those same people - the ones whose lives have already been turned upside down by the most recent disastrous Tory experiment - have a say in what happens next. We need a General Election right now.
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