The ‘leader’ of the Scottish Conservatives,
Douglas Ross, announced
last week that he had withdrawn his letter of no confidence in the Prime
Minister because, he said, “the middle of an international crisis is not
the time to be discussing resignations”. His ‘logic’ is curious, to say the
least, given that his statement shows no indication that he has changed his
mind about the main issue, which is that Boris Johnson is utterly unfit to hold
the job. Faced with a major international crisis, surely the need to ensure
that the man at the helm is up to the job increases rather than reduces. The
argument that a proven liar who, whenever he’s under pressure (and often when
he isn’t) says the first thing that comes into his head, even if it's the
opposite of what he said yesterday, is the best person to establish enough
trust to negotiate with friends and enemies alike is a very strange one. ‘Stability’
in a crisis is a good thing, of course – but who in his or her right mind would
apply the label ‘stable’ to a government led by a man who his former close
confidant describes
as being like a shopping trolley with defective wheels which lurches
unpredictably from side to side? Insisting that we should stick with an
unpredictable Johnson to face up to the even more dangerously unpredictable
Putin defies all normal logic. It makes sense only if Ross believes that any conceivable Tory replacement would be even worse. Oh, hold on, perhaps he has a point after all...
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That closing sentence sums up the problem .... However the need for change is vividly evident to all but those who benefit from the 80 seat majority.
I completely agree with the logic, as a vote of no confidence was taken at the start of the last unpleasantness with National Socialist Germany. I do not hold with idea that the action might lead to a worse option – it might, but the message is that they will again take the same action, until they get it right.
I have observed over the years, that people who enter the Royal Palace of Westminster breath in the air which rots their backbone and turns their brains into guacamole.
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