Echoes

If you stick around long enough, you realise that history echoes. Today, I found myself recalling an earlier speech that eventually led to the downfall of a prime minister.

Sajid Javid has said he cannot “risk my integrity” by continuing to defend the government, telling Boris Johnson “enough is enough”.

MPs, including Mr Johnson, listened in silence as he set out the reasons for his resignation as health secretary.

He said he could not go on giving Number 10 the “benefit of the doubt” after Partygate and other scandals.

Something was “fundamentally wrong” with government, he claimed, and “the problem starts at the top”.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced his own departure from government within minutes of the former health secretary, on Tuesday evening, and they have been followed out the door by a string of junior ministers.

None of these are of the calibre of their predecessors, but things aren’t looking good for Johnson right now. Except for one thing. Who would replace him? Given the weakness in our parliament, the choice is pretty thin. I very much doubt there will be an early election and Starmer is unlikely to win if there was, despite the Guardian thinking that it could happen.

There simply isn’t anyone, which is why we are stuck in this situation – the least worst.

16 Comments

  1. Politics does seem to be that way at the moment – “least worst” seems to be the best you can hope for nowadays. People voting, not for who they want to represent them, but who they think might beat the one they don’t want. Dear oh dear. What a state to be in. So this is democracy?

  2. Mark

    I’m not reminded of the Thatcher/ Howe speech – partly because what they’re resigning over is actually trivial. A gay predator was promoted due to political correctness. A report was made and because he is from a sexual orientation that automatically accords him victim status he was given a free pass. Now that’s revealed, these two turncoats who owe him everything decide to turn on him. How brave.

    Not a protest over:

    – Net Zero. a policy which amounts to economic suicide and which is likely to lead to an epidemic of sexual abuse because prostitution will be one of the only ways people can feed themselves

    – lockdowns, which it’s now agreed are the greatest crime in recorded human history

    – Grooming gang activity whereby White working class women are enslaved by a howling Islamic mob and the police and Other authorities refuse to act

    – militant trans activity, whereby despicable perverts who should ideally face a gallows are actively encouraged to groom children

    But apparently a Kevin Spacey wannabe is the straw that broke the camel’s back – we’re up the creek And paddles are not in evidence

    • I’m not disputing any of this. Indeed, I referenced the low quality of MP in the post. Its simply that we are seeing some deja vu here.

  3. There simply isn’t anyone, which is why we are stuck in this situation – the least worst

    Yes and exactly what I ask all who say he must go

    Answer: “Err, dunno, maybe some back-bencher will appear”

    Sunak resigns: I want higher tax, high spend; Johnson want lower tax, high spend

    Javid resigns: I’ve never forgiven Johnson for Cummings sacking my aide and my resigning

    Starkey spot on
    “Dr David Starkey outlines his ‘fear’ over Boris Johnson potentially stepping down as Prime Minister.
    There is no sense of anybody with a serious alternative policy”

    Dan Wootton ‘sadly concedes’ the premiership of Boris Johnson is coming to an end
    .
    __ ‘All I’m asking tonight is that we don’t forget what the unrelenting assault on Boris Johnson from the MSM and the political establishment all these months has been about: Destroying Brexit’
    .
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3YnsPLFAVg
    .
    .
    Michael Heseltine: ‘If Boris goes, Brexit goes’
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3wCPfzTQOs

  4. I’m not one for violent protest, and ‘protest’ alone is pretty much the same as feeling good about doing nothing. However I would get very inventive over someone trying to reverse Brexit, I certainly wouldn’t vote for them.

    I’ve assumed that Reform wouldn’t stand a chance against the incumbents, but that could change at the drop of a Prime Minister.

  5. I may be way off beam here….but the knives have been out for Boris since he delivered Brexit. The Left-Wing Remainer cabal is powerful and they are gutted us plebs voted to leave and they have been undermining the vote since it happened.
    My prediction is that we will be back in the EU in five years. Traitors will be on their knees to Brussels begging to return and accepting any deal.

  6. I thought that this comment on Tim Worstal’s blog from wat dabney was a very succinct summing up of the situation.

    “Specifically, the Prime is on the brink of being ousted by a set of interchangeable suits all set to implement exactly the same disastrous set of socialist policies.”

  7. Although we don’t actually have a real Brexit because Doris botched that as he has botched everything else. I can’t see us being back in the EU. The Ukrainian war is causing the EU to fracture even more that it was doing when we left.

    It does show the state of democracy in the UK though. Why do the public always vote for these clowns.

  8. I believe it makes little difference who replaces Bozo as “Conservative” prime monster. I doubt the “Conservative” party will win the next election whoever leads them – for two reasons.

    First, the current “Conservative” party believes in the same ‘woke’ bollocks that the Labour party does – climate change, transsexuality and so on. That being the case, why would any socially conservative voter vote “Conservative”? Lefties will certainly never vote “Conservative”. Why would they vote for a pale imitation of the Labour party when they can vote for the real thing?

    The second reason I believe the “Conservatives” will not win the next election is that by 2024 (the next election must be held by then) the “Conservatives” will have been in power for 14 years. If you look back at the last 100 years or so of politics, it is rare for a party to remain in power for more than 15 years at a time. The Tories’ 18 years in power from 1979 to 1997 was, I believe, a record for the last century or so. If the current “Conservatives” won in 2024 then they would remain in power until 2029. That’s 19 years in power, which I think is very unlikely to happen.

    One worrying thing about Bozo being replaced is that we may end up with a pro-mask, pro-lockdown zealot who puts us back into the nightmare of lockdowns and muzzle-wearing. We really don’t want to go through all that again.

  9. I’m just going to write non of the above on the ballot paper at the next election

    • That’s what I always do, parish, the nonsense that is Bradford Metropolitan District Council, General Elections.

      Apart from Brexit…Richard Pryor has a lot to answer for!

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