Just a quick summary of recent events, not counting the Queen bit, cos we’ve done that, been there, joined the queues, haven’t so much got the ‘t-shirt’ but I have a pocket full of money to remember her by.

So Liz Truss became PM, killed her Maj so she could have 10 days to work out her plans before anyone noticed she’d moved into Number 10. And Liz was voted in, by the ‘Conservative party members only’, not the parliamentarians. So those ‘grass roots’ dudes had one thing in mind when selecting her: winning the next election. Which is why she won. Rishi was seen, by them, sitting in their shires in their twin-sets sipping G&Ts on their lawns as servants iron their Daily Telegraphs, as seemingly unelectable. He is too rich, too clever, too brown to win an election, so Liz got the vote. And two weeks later Labour are 33% higher in the polls.

I’d just like to stress here and now that in this country ‘we don’t do personality politics’. Which may possibly account for Kier Starmer’s success, because he doesn’t have one. Furthermore he’s an Arsenal fan and therefore is untrustworthy, duplicitous, smug, arrogant, horrible and probably smells badly. Though he has ‘got rid of the toxic anti-semitism in his party’, which is true, at least superficially. My query has always been: where was this passionate anti-anti-Semite during the Corbyn years during which he smiled that horrible ‘punch me in the face’ smile standing at Jezza’s shoulder?

Anyway, due to having the incredible good fortune to be the leader of the Labour Party at a time when their political opponents have taken just two weeks to ensure the destruction of our economy for the next 67 years (if we’re lucky), Kier has stormed into the lead at the opinion polls. And even more ridiculously, he has had the unique opportunity to re-brand his party as the one ‘prudent with the economy’ as Truss and Kwarteng effectively put the entire Bank of England on number 27 at the roulette table.

So you’d think that the Labour Party would be deliriously happy. Yet that is not the case. They’re deliriously pissed off because Starmer has turned them back into ‘New Labour’. He’s employed a bunch of Blairites and taken his nominally ‘socialist’ party (they still sing ‘the red flag’, FFS) back to a centrist position not seen since Tony Blair days. Thus the party’s left wing, which is a lot of it, is accusing Kier of selling out. Because these hard lefties are the ones full of toxic ideology which can never win an election. Yet take it 4 degrees to the right and they might possibly do just that, as Blair did. But then its not being true to their core values: Proper socialism, taxing ‘the rich’ then taxing them more, militant trade unionism, a hatred of business and (for some reason) rabid anti-semitism.

There are many Conservatives who think Liz Truss should go NOW. To deliberate is to dither and lose even more credibility. Personally I think we should let things pan out first, at least wait the OBR report next month and then panic. And because its all so stupid and quite hilarious, let’s just wait until I next go on holiday and need to buy some dollars. Guy Fawkes didn’t do foreign exchange, but I do.

Happy Sunday

A xxxx