so the tory leadership candidates, and think carefully about this - what would you actually trust them to run?

the real question is - is any of them actually serious? or are they all just chancers?

let's get a list from somewhere...

the tory party leadership election 2024 was announced 5th july - so we are about two months in - sunak's successor will be confirmed, it is expected, 2nd november.  the conservative party conference will probably be used as election rallies by the various candidates. 

six condidates are standing

kemi bad enoch

james cleverly (wait for it wait for it)

robert jenrick (where to begin with the perfidy and entitlement of this one) 

ugli patel (ok ok it's a cheap shot horsemouth admits it) 

mel stride (who?)

tom tugendhat (corporal clegg in sean's excellent formation)

now the tories are faced with two choices (basically);

strategy one - try and act serious like adults, have some actual policies, wait for labour to fail. this would be stride and tugendhat horsemouth guesses. kemicleverlyjenrickpatel, on the other hand are basically strategy two people (just imagine if they had children ladies and gentlemen). 

strategy two - join in with the rioting, lead the populist charge, alibi burning down asylum hostels (while calling for longer jail sentences for the perpetrators). 

oh the competence (you may say), oh the competence and experience, oh the delivery. oh the pure raw talent of it all. 

the election will follow the  truss pattern  - whittle the field down to two, and then let the utterly barking conservative party membership vote on them (yes that went well). the tories need to energise their ageing base (to get them out to get the vote in) and so a mere coronation by the MPs amongst themselves (the sunak pattern) will not do it. 

the story (no, worse than that, the narrative) is that reform (plc) is on the rise and the tories are on the decline - a good solid performance in opposition (making all the right noises) could save them and reveal reform as five seat/ four million vote chancers. 

mordaunt (and excalibur) are gone and braverman is sitting it out. corporal clegg and major cleverly (the ex-military men) have branded with union jacks, enoch with 'renewal 2030' (isn't that a bit far off kemi? like the other side of the next election?), three have gone with a simple, direct 'for leader', two with a combination of 'unite'  and 'win'. 

it's another grey day with rain. horsemouth is pleased with his tory party leadership election coverage so far. 

whatever happened to these tunes? 

well the musicians just ran out of time (and energy) to get them done.

horsemouth has given them s re-listen and they sound better than he remembered (well some of them do anyway).