Tory Leadership Debate

Is it me or is the wall to wall Radio  and TV coverage of a Tory leadership election disturbing ? Why is it is being treated like a General Election with live TV debates when the electorate have absolute no power in the final decision. At the end of  the day less than 200,000 Tory members will decide who the new Prime Minister will be and then the date of the next general election, and there is nothing that we can do to stop that happening.

The irony of the Tory leadership hopefuls Rishi Sunak, Penny Mordaunt, Liz Truss, Kemi Badenoch and Tom Tugendhat  having their first debate on Channel 4 which the Tory's want to sell off seems to be lost on all of them. Who were the candidates attempting to appeal  to? It was nothing more than a crude Propaganda exercise? 

After watching the debate last night where they shared their views on taxes, the cost of living, the NHS, gender identity and more,  the only thing I have taken from it is that I have no desire to see any of these sanctimonious, hypocritical self serving out of touch misfits anywhere near Downing Street. Whoever wins we're all still up shit creek. What we must have, is a clean break from a Tory Government, and we need to remove these people from power as soon as possible,

Not one of the candidates was convincing. Each one has their own personal agenda and personal gain. Hollow and vacuous. All of them apart from Tom Tugendhat still defending Boris Johnson's lies and  afraid to admit that he is a pathological liar. None of them actually give a shit about fixing the country. Our NHS is struggling,we the public are struggling, and with the heatwave happening right now, the climate crisis is obvious.  

It  says everything about how they still think they can lie to us and get away with it..Listening to all the candidates it was so clear they have no real idea of how hard everyday life is for so many ordinary people. Too many insincere platitudes too about a completely run-down and broken NHS. Their bloody party has been in government for 12 years, delivering nothing more than failure and broken promises. It showed them all up as the crooked incompetents that they are though and through and if they are the pick of the Tory crop.to become PM my giddy aunt. 

Kemi Badenoch was truly awful on the NHS question - asked about the current crisis and backlog, people with potentially life-threatening cancer diagnoses having to wait well beyond the target times for referrals, people with heart attacks waiting five hours for an ambulance - she started talking about her own chipped tooth. Honestly! No PM could ever live down such self-obsessed blindness to others' serious health concerns. 

The candidates claimed to care about inequality, the lives of ordinary people, but let's face it this was just another display of bare faced lies for the cameras. How can any of these super- rich  politicians relate to the struggles of the ordinary public is anyones; guess especially in relation to Rishi Sunak whose own personal wealth is worth billions for goodness sake.  He even had the gall to say there is no public service more important than the NHS, despite this not stopping him having secret meetings to sell the NHS to US corporations. Just the thought of him makes my skin crawl..

Twitter commentators  were quick to notice Liz Truss appearing to recreate an outfit worn by Margaret Thatcher for her appearance at the debate. The foreign secretary wore a black blazer and white shirt with a large bow for the event, matching exactly what the former Conservative PM wore in a 1979 election broadcast . Hundreds took to the social media platform to point out the striking similarity. One tweet, which received more than 4,500 likes, said "Liz Truss has recreated Margaret Thttcher's appearance from her 1979 election broadcast down to the last detail." 

Another joked "Liz Truss's Margaret Thatcher Tribute Act is available for hire,"

Yes there was  something truly horrific about the whole thing but on a  more positive note the public could at least see they are unworthy of the office of PM. The five Tory leadership candidates faced an awkward moment during the debate when Channel 4's Krishnan Guru-Murthy asked the audience to raise their hand if they trust politicians. No one did. And very little of the studio audience  seemed to think that the government and candidates had appropriate measures to tackle the cost of living.When Krishnan Guru-Murthy asked the audience to raise their hands if they thought the Tories’ proposed measures were enough to tackle living costs and the energy crisis, only three did so.  

The elephant in the room is that, every single candidate  promises to ease the cost of living crisis, but all but  Tugendhat supported Brexit and still supports Brexit which only serves to exacerbate the cost of living crisis. Another elephant in the room is why the Torys increase regressive taxation that harms the poorest rather than increase taxation on the richest who don't or won't miss it. 

The Tory leadership contest condensed. Different shits, the same bout of diarrhoea.. There isn’t a better or worse winner in the Tory leadership race. Whoever wins, we lose. We need to stand firm and united and  get all the Tories out of power.