Sunday 9 June 2019

Who can screw Nigel Farage and/or Jeremy Corbyn?

Never mind Brexit or the economy or immigration or house prices or VAT or foreign policy or Trump or student tuition fees, which of the 11 remaining Tory Party candidates hoping to become the next British prime minister can stop Nigel Farage or Jeremy Corbyn from steamrollering into power? I would say there is probably only one candidate who is popular enough with the people to kill off either of those two's politial ambitions and that's dear old Boris. In the media, Boris Johnson is about as popular as a pharmaceutical salesman. Some of the more right wing columnists or even mid-wing Conservatives think he is lazy, complacent, lacking in ideas, unscrupulous and basically not worthy of entering Number 10. But this is lazy journalism. It's easy to knock people and to be rude in print but we all, columnists included, need to look at these candidates and decide which one will actually do enough to put Corbyn back in his box for ever and destroy Farage's hopes of filling the House of Commons with Brexit Party MPs. As far as I can see the only one who has any hope of doing both these things is Boris. I doubt he is as lazy and incompetent as the newspaper columnists claim. But if he really does produce a sensible Brexit deal by October 31 or withholds the £39 billion we are supposed to pay the EU as the price for withdrawing until he gets a better deal, or goes for a managed no-deal, whatever that means, he has probably got a better chance of undermining the likes of Corbyn and Farage than any of the other candidates. Can you really believe that the likes of Michael Gove or Sajid Javid or Andrea Leadsom or Dominic Raab etc etc are going to so inspire the world that the Conservative party will remain in power for the next decade? No I don't think so. We are now in the era of fun politics, risk politics, grab-the-limelight politics! Boris fits that bill. Whether in the end he will bring us all down I don't know. But most people with superior education thought the world would come to an end with Trump in the White House. And it hasn't happened. Yet!

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