It is a pity about that third televised debate. Summer telly is mostly rubbish, and watching the Conservative Leadership candidates spit bile at each other has been the best in decades.
Liz Truss can slag off her school all she likes, but if it got her into Oxford, then it was capable of working miracles. It did not teach her which party was in government at the time, and indeed that that party held the seat in which it was located, but never mind. Nor is Leeds North East a Red Wall seat. It has had the same Labour MP since 1997, although it was Conservative from 1955 until then, as it had been for most of the more distant past.
It is not a peculiarity of one party for politicians to claim that they went to hellhole schools but somehow managed to get themselves into, usually, Oxford. Truss should have told Rishi Sunak that since her school got her in to read for the same degree as his, then Roundhay must have been as good as Winchester. But she did not say that. None of them, in any party, ever says that.
Truss graduated from Oxford in 1996. Apart from a year in Canada, her entire education was under the Conservatives. She is on record that, presumably in accordance with the National Curriculum that had been set by the Conservative Government of the day, her schools had taught people about racism and sexism, but not how to read. She does not explain how that might have been possible. Never Starmer, of course. But before that, Never Truss.
According to Harry Cole in the Sun Rishi Sunak told his fellow pupils at school to ignore Tory Party Propaganda and support Gordon Brown and the Labour Party.
ReplyDeleteOh, he is put that one out there, has he? We all knew that. Not that it would have had much impact at Winchester, of course.
DeleteSunak is starting to look like the only one who could even staff a full Government. His cohort is by far the single largest, and after the most recent debate, then none of them could credibly serve under any of the other candidates, or even be likely to be asked.
The ever-increasing showing for Sunak shows that they think that he is going to win, and that they think it in enough numbers to be self-fulfilling. I carry no candle for him. But this is the obvious reality. Any other Leader's tenure would be made a misery. The Labour lot did that to Corbyn, and that was in Opposition. Imagine it in office.