This appealing to both sides is what did Corbyn in if I remember correctly, so I don't think it's such a clever strategy for Starmer to take and certainly pisses me off, for one. Polls show that the country is more pro EU than against, so I don't understand why there's still so much pandering to brexit.
But I will happily cheer if Boris is ousted properly.
Hell yeah. That's an understatement.
Also how did the Tory party let it through unopposed?...
Perhaps, I dunno. There's a lot of them so you'd think someone would notice and you'd think that they wouldn't generally be in favour of an investigation into their cult icon, would you? Let's just hope that the tories have scored a big own goal here.
And on a related note, of course, the tories should be pushed out of power for all the abuses that they've done and continue to do. Rampant corruption, in other words. Thing is, how much better are Labour gonna be? I suspect not hugely, unfortunately, but better nonetheless. However, any party that gets into power must know that they'll be out of power if they pull stunts like these, hence even if the two sides were equally bad, the one in power should still be voted out as it will teach the incoming one that they must behave better or they'll be chucked out too.
And as far as who should be the next tory leader, here's my take on it.
They're both awful and will commit abuses. We're choosing between two terrible tory options here, so it's a case of who will be less bad.
To me, Sunak looks like the better candidate, perhaps less corruption and will make wiser policy decisions overall. However, he might be a real challenger to Starmer at the general election and we don't want that.
Truss is kinda like Johnson so will say anything to make her sound more appealing to the tory voters, regardless of how ridiculus it sounds. She's therefore more likely the clusterfuck candidate who will hurt the country more. However, she should therefore be a lot easier to defeat in a GE, hence, I'm hoping that she wins and by all accounts it's looking that way.
And there's another reason that I think she'll win which has nothing to do with policies and all to do with racism: she's white and he's Asian. Could be as simple as that and I'm still pretty sure that the tories and their voters are inherently more racist than people more at the centre of politics and the left. This of course, is
not the basis on which to select a candidate, but I think it might be the case here.
Part of the reason I think that racism could be at the heart of it, is that Sunak comes across very smoothly and has an affable manner that would tend to make people like him, hence I'd have thought that would have been a clear advantage, making him dangerous against Labour. But if one were to chuck racism into the mix, then he's got no chance, regardless of what he's like and hence Truss is way out in front. And that's pretty ugly.
