I was wrong: the Tories are crazier than I imagined

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I was wrong to suggest, only yesterday morning, that James Cleverly would be in the final two of the Tory leadership campaign.

It turned out that, like almost every other commentator, my assumption that there were still some sane people in the Tory party proved to be wrong. If sane Tories exist, there are not enough of them to save that organisation from self-destructing by choosing another leader as bad as Truss was only two years after they proved just how unwise it might be to elect someone so wholly inappropriate to fill that post.

Badenoch spouts economic and social nonsense on demand without, apparently, having the slightest comprehension of the drivel that falls out of her mouth.

She makes claims about herself - including that she is working class because she spent a few days working at McDonalds when she was 16 - that are obviously absurd.

And like Suella Braverman before her, the attitude that she displays towards migration appears to me to be based on deep prejudices.

Jenrick is no better. His judgement is questionable. His English exceptionalism appears to know no bounds. He will happily remove our human rights to prove that we are different from Europe. His policy on migration appears to me to be callous and is indicative of a lack of empathy of any sort for those in need. His intense Zionism is dangerous when political leaders are going to require judgement to navigate the political difficulties in the Middle East.

These people are hardly fit to lead a Tufton Street think tank given their limited ability, and yet one of them is about to become Leader of the Opposition in this country.

We have many - even massive - issues of concern in this country, all of which must be faced if we are to see the human race survive on this planet. The challenge of achieving that goal in a fair and equitable way is bigger still, but these two fall firmly into the camp that even denies that such problems exist, so removed are they from reality.

When we are heading for an era where one, at least, of our leading political parties is refusing to address any of the issues that really afflict this country because it wishes to engage in xenophobic hatred of those fleeing conflict, war and climate change what chance do we have unless the political system changes? Almost none is the answer.

And the trouble is, these idiots - counting now the Labour Party to be amongst that number - have control of that political system.

The question is, for how long can this last? This situation is very obviously unsustainable. The questions that have to be asked are: what replaces it, when, and what precipitates the change?


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