Of course neither Boris Johnson nor Jacob Rees-Mogg could win a General Election.
The question is whether the Conservative Party is a serious political organisation, or a public school lark.
If it could consider either Johnson or Rees-Mogg as Leader, then it is the latter.
Just as Labour had to decide whether it was a machine for elevating the next bland technocrat in line, or a party of the Left.
It made its decision. The Conservatives must make theirs.
The question is whether the Conservative Party is a serious political organisation, or a public school lark.
If it could consider either Johnson or Rees-Mogg as Leader, then it is the latter.
Just as Labour had to decide whether it was a machine for elevating the next bland technocrat in line, or a party of the Left.
It made its decision. The Conservatives must make theirs.
Quite right. As Peter Hitchens has said in his column, Labour chose a leader from the Left, now conservatives have to find a leader from the Right.
ReplyDeleteOh, no, it's not that. They are not that party, because that party is not a British thing at all. The electoral constituency that he would wish into existence was never there in the first place.
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