13 July (Part 2) - Penny for them
I was accused of favouring Liz Truss for PM because
yesterday’s summary of
her attributes included nothing negative; but one could have said the same about Kemi
Badenoch or Suella Braverman.
Since then I have scoured YouTube in the hope of discovering who would get my vote if I had one.
The essential thing is not what one might think of a candidate and his or her
plans, but the likelihood of them winning the next election. Without doing that
they are pretty much wasting their time with the potential for laying the country to waste.
No candidate is perfect; for example every candidate showed off their
inner-Adolph
during the pandemic and Penny has said some silly things in the past, but in
general I could just about accept any of the women as PM and wouldn’t touch any of the blokes with a bargepole.
Of the females, and based on what they have said in the past 24 hours, I found
Kemi Badenoch and Penny Mordaunt closest to my own views and I suppose that in a
run off of two candidates one must accept that the more experienced Penny is
more likely to be elected PM. I might take a punt on Kemi but the stakes for 2024 are scarily high.
If Rishi pulls some stunt via vote lending such that only he and a non-starter
survive the knock out rounds then the Conservatives will deserve to be rendered unelectable for the rest of time.
Most of us, certainly not me, are not allowed to choose the next
Prime Minister. Come to think of it, even party members are not given true freedom of choice.