jenrick vs. bad enoch (possibly cleverly)

'I came to douarnenez to escape britain, 

to escape a situation that I couldn't cope with....

um... and not going to make any political points 

and I'm certainly not going to argue about economics, 

I'm just going to say how it felt to me...' - roger barnes

and still it goes on roger. all those contradictions and unpleasantness are still working their way through. 

so horsemouth has booked a washing machine repair man for friday. the engineer will email him to tell him the time slot the night before and phone immediately before. horsemouth is not convinced it is economically worth it (but fuck it, it's not his money).

pantomime dame priti patel is gone already from the tory party leadership contest! 

(that didn't take long)

kemi bad enoch          22votes

james cleverly            21 votes        

robert jenrick             28 votes

priti patel                   14 votes

mel stride                   16 votes 

tom tugendhat            17 votes

looks like it's going to be jenrick vs. bad enoch (possibly cleverly) (gawdelpus). horsemouth expects the bottom three candidates to fold and their votes be redistributed among the remaining three. one more will be eliminated next tuesday and then four will give speeches at the tory party conference and then they'll fight with knives until only one remains. 

actually no they'll whittle it down to two and then the party members (if there are any left) will get a vote. (or maybe the MPs will attempt another stitch up and foist one candidate on the rest of the party without a vote). 

they are apparently under strict instructions from the 22 committee to keep it clean and not brief against each other i.e. not to fight like rats in a sack over it (more is the pity). 

cleverly he thinks is a bully (after the calling stockton north a shithole event), jenrick is just an ambitious and unprincipled  stuffed shirt, bad enoch is the real bad news though - a young thatcher style ideologue in the gove style. 

horsemouth cannot make up his mind whether it is better that the tory party elect an unelectable right winger or a safe pair of hands centrist. ideally horsemouth wants them out of power for as long as possible and a right-winger is probably better to do that, their vote split by reform, but the longer they are out of power the more the right wing reaction grows because it is not being recuperated in parliamentary politics, the greater the temptation to unite the right and come to an arrangement with reform that maximises both of their electoral chances. 

a grey morning. horsemouth will go and get the bin in a minute.