The never-ending Tory leadership contest

Please just let it end

The Tory leadership contest grinds along like a bad film in which you started checking your watch after 20 minutes and it is now 2 hours later and the thing just won’t stop. It thinks it is Lawrence of Arabia but is actually Batman Vs Superman only with the limited decent bits removed. The entire process has had any meaning ground out of it by the utter refusal to continence any kind of debate. I just don’t care and I suspect neither does most of the public or even many Tory voters. Either way it is actually pretty irrelevant - only they don’t seem to realise it.  

Firstly because there is no election forthcoming any time soon regardless of how much many of the haters of Starmer and co (I am one of them) might wish for it. Until then the leader of the opposition is a largely ceremonial role whose main job is to point out what a pig's ear the government is making of everything whilst hopefully beating the Prime Minister around the Commons every Wednesday for PMQ’s. Let’s face it, pretty much anyone should be able to achieve those two tasks when you look at the state of things - probably even the rotted down remains of the lettuce that outlived the Truss premiership. 

Secondly because if the party is to rebuild and that is a big if in the long run then it will need to actually do some hard thinking and probably evacuate certain turds from its bloated senior ranks like a fat man crapping out yesterday’s curry. It may be climbing higher in the polls but this the same mirage that Labour fell for pre-election. An unpopular government always makes other parties popular as people look at it and think “Jesus H Christ anything must be better than this lot”. It doesn’t mean you are actually popular, liked or even wanted. Some Tories know this and realise that radical reform is needed - but not I suspect the liberals who infest the parliamentary party and CCHQ. 

That brings us to the third point that those same liberals are all desperately trying to ignore which is that it is the public who are now driving politics. Yes us dear reader - the people on the street - the great ignored are now firmly in control of the agenda and the blob absolutely hates it. The idea that the public should have a say in how this country is governed is considered by the liberal chattering classes as oh so very gauche - especially after they spent 30 years ensuring we didn’t. Yes we are shitting all over their best laid plans and I personally am trying to make sure mine are especially fetid. Their pain and horror brings me delight each and every day. 

The really funny bit is that the public is only driving politics now because the liberal consensus has utterly failed. I mean look at what the uniparty has done to the country - just look at where it has led us. An out of control judicial system, policing by consent which means doing nothing, stabbings on the streets, borders which don’t exist, an economy that fails the majority and the mass abuse of children from Rotherham to the Tavistock clinic to name but a few. The fact that the chattering classes still believe in their right to rule after bringing us to this point is a testament to their sense of entitlement and general detachment from reality. 

Which brings us back to the Tories and their now mind numbingly boring leadership content. They can elect anyone they like - I mean literally a goat with a blue rosette nailed to it - no one actually cares. The only thing that the public is worried about is policy and outcomes which is a real problem for the liberal wing. You know that deep down most of them expect to tack a bit to the centre and just wait for the Labour implosion before reclaiming their rightful place as the government of the country. I will bet they are already measuring up the curtains as the saying goes - yeah good luck. 

The public is not going to be bought off with “Better than this lot” as they have had a Tory government in very recent memory and they are a good part of the reason why we are here. 14 wasted and shameful years watching the country circle the drain whilst they played games. People have other options on the right and the left and they will continue to vote for them in growing numbers as long as the two parties refuse to offer up anything new. The public wants change and they will have it one way or other - democracy rules OK.

For followers of politics and economics i.e. sad freaks like me this is a hugely exciting time. For the first time in decades there is a genuine ideological battle starting to happen. The death of liberalism is already inbound with the current shower of shits who inhabit Whitehall being its death rattle. One last desperate effort to ignore facts and a very pissed off public before reality comes knocking, sending many of them into the political afterlife to much cheering from the British public who have had enough. 

The trend is your friend as the saying goes in the financial markets and in this case it is definitely working in my favour. You name the crappy uniparty policy and I will show you the trend away from it. From a public who have had enough of mass migration through to the collapsing net zero consensus - everywhere I look I see a political system which is moving in the direction I want. Liberalism and its deformed political nepo babies are slowly but surely being flushed down the khazi to much hilarity from the public. 

So I wait with bated breath for the Tory leadership contest to end. I mean don’t get me wrong I would like Jenrick to win as I have £10 on him and I like his new haircut. However it doesn’t really matter - Rob is only doing now what the next leader will have to do in the future if the party wants to survive anyway. It will have to listen to the public and offer up change and in many cases very radical change which will upset the liberals because the status quo has failed and is being rejected. 

So roll on November so we can get this party started. I am confident that whoever wins will show this Labour government up as the shambolic, incompetent, unpleasant and frankly out of its depth shower of stale political shysters that they are. That is something we can all cheer on regardless of whether we care or not about the Conservative party.