Tory contest - Boris vs All
This is the first time since the introduction of the Gregorian calendar centuries ago that the first week of June is also the last week of May. Ok, ok, I know many are playing word games with this. I only added the Gregorian bit.
And with that we have a new horse race starting up, with already a dozen candidates lining up to be the next fool trying to deliver Brexit. While a lot, its still only half the 24 horses (donkeys?) in the race for the Democatic nomination. Which makes me wonder whether I should abandon my attempt to join that race and instead shoot for Nr. 10.
I mean I have put in a lot of time and effort already, and my US birth certificate is already in the post (The US still uses some ancient technologies). I had bumped into some difficulties originally, but then got some friends in Nairobi and Hawaii involved. After all, they had already pulled it off once before, so they knew the ropes.
But US birth certificate or not, Downing Street is also quite appealing. Its closer.
The bookies do not always get it right. Right now they have Clown Boris at 50% and everybody else effectively as also-ran. Sort of shows their view of the brilliance of the Conservative voting public. But the fact is that if there was no campaigning and the Tory leadership contest was held today, Boris would win. Now its up to the others to use some trickery and bring him down, like Gove did last time (and may do again).
Wouldn’t it be ironic if Sajid Javid wins? Suddenly Kipling’s famous “white man’s burden” would now become the “brown man’s burden”, as Sajid tries to get the UK out of the Brexit mess of its own creation. He is a Leaver, by the way.
An even more intriguing situation would be if Boris (or whoever) got elected, the October 31st deadline got ever nearer, no resolution or majority for anything is found, turmoil increased, planes started falling out of the sky, the Thames stopped flowing, England lose the cricket World Cup, English football clubs lose their first round European matches, the pubs get bleaker, the beer gets blander, etc. etc.
In that situation, one can imagine that not only the Boris Govt but also fence-sitter Corbyn would fall. And now we could have the 2 major parties led by 2 Pakistan-origin Muslims (Sajid and Sadiq) going into the next election. Yes, the chances are not high, but not non-existent either. Nobody would have predicted 10 years ago that somebody called Sadiq Khan would soon be the Mayor of London.
Now that would really be the brown man’s burden.
And with that we have a new horse race starting up, with already a dozen candidates lining up to be the next fool trying to deliver Brexit. While a lot, its still only half the 24 horses (donkeys?) in the race for the Democatic nomination. Which makes me wonder whether I should abandon my attempt to join that race and instead shoot for Nr. 10.
I mean I have put in a lot of time and effort already, and my US birth certificate is already in the post (The US still uses some ancient technologies). I had bumped into some difficulties originally, but then got some friends in Nairobi and Hawaii involved. After all, they had already pulled it off once before, so they knew the ropes.
But US birth certificate or not, Downing Street is also quite appealing. Its closer.
The bookies do not always get it right. Right now they have Clown Boris at 50% and everybody else effectively as also-ran. Sort of shows their view of the brilliance of the Conservative voting public. But the fact is that if there was no campaigning and the Tory leadership contest was held today, Boris would win. Now its up to the others to use some trickery and bring him down, like Gove did last time (and may do again).
Wouldn’t it be ironic if Sajid Javid wins? Suddenly Kipling’s famous “white man’s burden” would now become the “brown man’s burden”, as Sajid tries to get the UK out of the Brexit mess of its own creation. He is a Leaver, by the way.
An even more intriguing situation would be if Boris (or whoever) got elected, the October 31st deadline got ever nearer, no resolution or majority for anything is found, turmoil increased, planes started falling out of the sky, the Thames stopped flowing, England lose the cricket World Cup, English football clubs lose their first round European matches, the pubs get bleaker, the beer gets blander, etc. etc.
In that situation, one can imagine that not only the Boris Govt but also fence-sitter Corbyn would fall. And now we could have the 2 major parties led by 2 Pakistan-origin Muslims (Sajid and Sadiq) going into the next election. Yes, the chances are not high, but not non-existent either. Nobody would have predicted 10 years ago that somebody called Sadiq Khan would soon be the Mayor of London.
Now that would really be the brown man’s burden.
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