, “like getting pandas to mate.” A Sunak coronation is possible if enough MPs can be convinced that a Johnson revival is insane. Mordaunt, a former defense secretary who passes for a centrist and can almost speak human, has 24 endorsements. Mordaunt would have won last time if Johnson hadn’t intervened on Truss’s behalf. Sunak may lend her enough votes to get to the runoff because he fears Johnson more. If that happens, she may win because Tory members are capable of anything.
Johnson, again, is the key, and that is how he likes it: people watching him summon victory from ashes, to prove something to ghosts we cannot see. His supporters say he has electoral magic: He won an 80-seat majority in 2019 on the promise to “get Brexit done,” and they think he can repeat this. He has changed, they say, even as he is photographed flying back from a two-week holiday when Parliament is sitting.
Who will pull him back? The momentum is with Sunak and, though Johnson supporters insist he has the 100 votes he needs to get on the ballot, only 57. Do the rest even exist? But Sunak was the Establishment candidate last time and he failed against Truss’s small-state castles in the air, fantasy war with France , tax cuts, and whiteness. If Johnson makes it to the final two, I fear he will return. I cannot measure the Tory membership’s insanity from a desk.
TanyaGold1 Yup. Nothing to do with Covid Restrictions, Furlough or the war in Ukraine. Absolutely nothing but Brexit
TanyaGold1 Free to view. Excellent but grim piece from NY.
TanyaGold1 Very good pun on “Bonfire of vanities”
TanyaGold1 What a shit show.
sturdyAlex TanyaGold1 And the UK is paying the price
TanyaGold1 Boris is coming back, I know these are not good news in Crimea
adamboultonTABB TanyaGold1 But at least they got to show to the entire world that when you get libertarians in power, with libertarian think tank ideas, it ends up being a quick and absolute disaster.
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