It gets worse the initial idea was that Sunak would not go at all. This is worse than 1983 Labour campaign. https://x.com/iainmartin1/status/1798977946574782737?s=46 (View Post)

He wouldn’t need to be leader, Churchill wasn’t initially. Given it would be for 3-4 weeks max it wouldn’t matter. (View Post)

Absolutely, and then once you’ve sloped off early arrange a bit of naked politicking whilst the rest of the political class is engaged in saluting the DDay generation. If I were a Tory candidate in a… (View Post)

Yes but politics is a contingent discipline. He would have been starting from a very different position so his options and choices would have been different. I don’t think you can say that Rishi was … (View Post)

In fairness after the Trussterfuck he was the only viable option to impose without a contest. Whoever is the next leader should revise the party constitution particularly the leadership election rule… (View Post)