The new statesmen
I almost missed Steve Baker calling on the “statesmen” of the cabinet to rise up and throw out the Prime Minister. Dear me, do pay attention at the back.
Apparently some regard the administrative abilities of Michael Gove quite highly but beyond that not one of these sycophantic, inadequates would have made it into any cabinet of the last 70 years.
Some might have made it to junior ministerial ranks but would have been quickly weeded out and sent back to a life of deserved obscurity on the back benchers.
“Couldn’t run a whelk stall” springs to mind. As does incompetent, untrustworthy, unethical and a weak willed toady.
The idea that someone in the Tory party thinks any of this lot are statesmen or women just shows how bad things are.
Where are the big guns, the intellectuals, the leaders, the next generation? Which one is even close to being a Howe or a Heseltine, a Healy or a Hattersley? And that is just the H’s.
If any PM in modern history had fallen under a bus, there would have been half a dozen senior, experienced, qualified people to step up and take on the job.
Lots of business leaders are the same, weed out the rivals, make those below you dependent on you whim, never recruit someone who can do your job, belittle your deputies. Surround yourself with yes men and run the company like it is your own private fiefdom.
It never ends well.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.