I find it hard to imagine that anyone could be worse that the lying , cheating incumbent of No 10.Careful what you wish for Jazz. There are any number of reasons why you would want Johnson out of number 10, but Sassy is spot on when she asks the question who do you replace him with.
The very understandable wave of emotion surrounding Partygate is masking the fact that he is making (in my opinion) the right calls over the two main issues affecting us, and indeed the world, at the moment. The cost of living crisis and the war in Ukraine. The financial package his government has put together to help cope with rising prices is very un-Tory like in nature and I doubt if even Labour could have come up with much more. They also put together similarly good financial packages during the covid pandemic. And all that has been funded by debt and by increased taxes/NI. This is probably the most left wing Tory government of all time, certainly in my lifetime.
If Boris goes there are no outstanding candidates to take his place and that worries me. The worst thing that can happen is that he is replaced by somebody who wants to revert back to traditional Tory values, and that could very well happen. And that means austerity. I would rather have Johnson, for all his lying, his U-turns, his bungling and his narcissistic ways, than a return to austerity. That would kill the country.
Of course, he could be replaced by somebody who is left of centre, and pragmatic, and does not indeed lie more than the average MP, and who is committed to the pre-election pledges of levelling up the country, and who is known for their integrity and wishes to uphold traditional parliamentarian values. In which case bring it on.
Do you know Fred I'd rather a traditional Tory rather than a faux narcissicent Tory pretending to be all things to all people.
The first rule of leadership has to be honesty and trust. Without that it is impossible to lead.
