Phantom promises from dead man lying Boris Johnson’s chief cheerleaders are why Britain needs a fresh General Election rather than another Conservative leadership game.
The competitors offering free cash to grab the crown will lack a national mandate to occupy No 10.
Frantically airbrushing sustained support for a sleazy Prime Minister they loyally served until fancying his job themselves, they justifiably fear voters would punish them.
But even Brenda from Bristol might want to decide who rules her instead of leaving it to a single party’s MPs and 100,000 members of the Tory sect representing a tiny fraction of the country.
That’s why Keir Starmer, Ed Davey, Nicola Sturgeon and other opposition leaders will hammer home calls for an election.
The fourth Conservative PM in six tumultuous years is unlikely to be much, if any, improvement on the ousted scoundrel.
Nadhim Zahawi’s reportedly under tax investigation, Rishi Sunak’s family’s tax affairs are nauseating, Sajid Javid has been called to answer tax questions of his own, Jeremy Hunt ran the NHS into the ground, Liz Truss is lightweight, Penny Mordaunt’s campaign got off to a terrible start with Paralympian Johnnie Peacock demanding to be cut from a film, and so on and so on.
Labour’s clever numbers man, Pat McFadden, is bang on the money when his own party’s legitimately hammered if the sums don’t add up yet after only four days he’s counted £235-billion in tax cuts – roughly one and a half times the annual NHS budget – announced by Tory candidates without any explanation how a single penny would be funded.
I’ve long argued there should be an automatic election when a governing party switches Prime Ministers.
The Tories don’t want that, preferring a Westminster game of musical chairs to impose a ruler on us.
Because they fear they’d lose.
Cost of living tops the immediate issues on people’s minds but Britain needs a written constitution to protect our rights and hold politicians to account.
It may not be sexy but it would pay the bills down the line if we got a PM we want, not whoever the Tories lumber us with.
