Entire and Whole and Perfect?

Nadhim Zahawi wants to become Prime Minister in order to weed woke indoctrination out of schools. This time last week, he was the Secretary of State for Education. A party that has been in office for the last 12 years is being cajoled into handing the Premiership to Tom Tugendhat, who has never held office. And so it goes on.

We must hope for Penny Mordaunt's sake that she knew in her own mind that her video to the strains of I Vow to Thee, My Country was a joke, although it was not as funny as the fact that the pm4pm site on which it was published had been registered while she was Defence Secretary under Theresa May.

But the two target audiences were AltRight Conservative MPs and the tiny, elderly membership of the Conservative Party, with no books in the house apart from Regimental Cap Badges of the British Army or some heavily illustrated hagiography of the Queen. Both of those partially overlapping constituencies will have taken that little production entirely in earnest. 

Having said that, one of the AltRight Conservative MPs is now a Labour frontbencher. Whatever happened to the six Conservative MPs who were recently on the brink of defecting to the Labour Party? Perhaps they found it too right-wing for them? It has come to something when Rishi Sunak would head a Government further to the left of almost the entire Parliamentary Labour Party, as well as of the Liberal Democrats and the SNP but that is to be expected, than even the present one was.

Neither this Government is, nor would that Government be, remotely left-wing to those of us who looked to the trade unions to provide and coordinate the almost entirely extraparliamentary Opposition from the left while Labour, the Lib Dems and the SNP provided the almost entirely parliamentary Opposition, if that, from the right.

As to Sunak himself, notice that being the son of a doctor now counts as having come from humble beginnings, and compared to Keir Starmer's origins I suppose it is. Also note that Sunak is said to have had to have won a scholarship to Winchester "to get an education", or else he would have been abandoned to the tender mercies of that hotbed of municipal Maoism, Hampshire County Council.

Yet Sunak may still turn out to be the potential Prime Minister out of whom we could get the most in the cause of economic equality and international peace. Very little, but still more than from any of the others. Never mind from the other side. With whom would it be easier to negotiate, the bosses or the scabs?