That’s a really good point. My take on it is that the left pay a lot of lip service to equality of opportunity, but when it comes to voting time they’re actually quite prejudiced in the strongly left wing areas. Look at the immigration concerns voiced in the Northern Labour strongholds, for a start.
Then you have the tories, as you say, stereotypically viewed as inherently racist white supremacists. But, their power base is in London, where they actually can’t afford to be that. So you end up with the paradox of ethnic minorities working their way up the political ladder far more readily in the nasty old tory party than they ever will in the everyone-is-equal Labour one.
Add to that his short fuse, these debates have shown that he gets very ratty if anyone dares to question his record and performance as Chancellor. After suggesting that Truss was a socialist he then lost it with Mordaunt, suggesting that she was to the left of Corbyn economically. He’s clearly a far right wing nutter if he thinks that.
The whole thing is a farce anyway, for the third time in six years just 0.3% of registered voters will choose the UKs next leader, the vast majority elderly white males, from the same background, class and social standing. Democracy it ain’t that’s for sure, I cannot imagine any other country in the western world tolerating it, they would be hitting the streets. Our country has been turned into a laughing stock.
The TV debates are now over. Apparently they don’t like the public spectacle of kicking the shit out of each other.
I think it has been brilliant and will be contacting Endemol (the makers of Big Brother) to suggest several new ideas for TV programmes, all involving Tories scrapping like hamsters in a hamster HMO.
I do wonder what the Tory grandees were thinking when they did this - let’s portray our leadership contenders as a bunch of rats fighting in a sack - that will be a vote winner
Also, given that they have all called each other a cunt publicly, it’s going to be hard for any losers to serve in the winners cabinet
Just another example of Tory governmental incompetence.
Not content to simply continue to pay YoungAdult#1 Universal Credit after she started doing her paid PhD and not providing any sort of means (or interest) for her to pay it back, she’s now just had the first Cost of Living benefit paid into her bank account - again with no notice or details on how to pay it back.
It’s as if the magic money tree doesn’t know when to stop shaking for the people who genuinely don’t need / want the benefit
It’s going to be Truss isn’t it. God help us all, the UK will be at war somewhere within two years.
And Mordaunt’s latest idea to bring the country together is a proposal for the UK to have a new theme tune. What the actual fuck! May I suggest this one. Any other suggestions from the Sotonian brethren?
Truss into the grey perm playoff final. Sunak will be happier with that: Mordaunt would have been a “clean sheet” opponent. I’d guess his supporters lent votes to keep Mordaunt out.
Now we have a clear choice of the devil or the deep blue sea. Or a rock and a hard place. Or one self-seeking Johnson supporter who backed the criminal liar to the end against another who was utterly loyal until he saw an opportunity his ego couldn’t resist.
When we saw Clarkey at the Guildhall recently, I was impressed with his updated version of Beasley Street. Rewritten for modern times and titled Beasley Boulevard, if you like his stuff then look it up, it’s on YouTube. Very good poem.
