Beaches or Tory Party Leadership Race: the outlook is ‘hot’!
It’s hotting up – the Tory Leadership contest, that is, not just the heatwave, even though we’re already getting the first ‘omigawd’ headlines in this morning’s print editions . The Red Tops are to the fore, with “Heatwave is risk to life” in The Express, “40ºC Alert – Hot as Death Valley” in the Star and “Britain braced for heat health emergency” in the DT. The Times, inside, has already the first inevitable warning of ‘taps might run dry’, thus hosepipe bans might be needed (link, paywalled). The other papers have the ‘story’ of that runner, Mo Farah, as top news item. He told the nation that he was ‘trafficked as child’ to go to the UK. You can find it all in the usual place (link).
And so, because it matters to all of us even though we cannot do anything about it, let’s look at the nitty-gritty of the Tory Party Leadership Contest, the stark points of ‘what and when’. Here they are, for the record, as decided yesterday evening by the 1922 Committee and announced by Sir Graham Brady:
“Conservative leadership timetable
Tuesday 12 July – nominations to get on the ballot open, closing at 18.00 BST
Wednesday 13 July – first round of voting among Tory MPs
Thursday 14 July – likely date for second round of voting
Monday 18 July – likely date for third round of voting, if required
Thursday 21 July – deadline for deciding final two candidates
Monday 5 September – winner announced” (link)
So that’s that, and the corridors, tea rooms, bars and lobby of the HoC today will be even hotter than London outside. All that plotting … The back-stabbers are already hard at work. It’s a ‘stop Sunak’ campaign. There’s a dedicated piece by Ms Tominey in the DT – remember, she was an incessant campaigner for ousting Cummings . She now declares:
“If the Tory Right can’t unite around a candidate, Rishi Sunak could be PM by default – With the former chancellor now considered the centre-Left candidate, who will step forward among the pro-Brexit culture warrior faction?” (paywalled link).
“ABS”, All But Sunak, is it? The Times is a bit more concise, writing that “Tory right’s infighting helps Rishi Sunak leadership campaign” (link, paywalled). The DM is Outspoken, blunt stating: “Back me or get Rishi, says Liz Truss in warning to rivals on the Tory Right as they battle each other… and Sunak still won’t commit to instant tax cuts” (link).
Allegedly, Sunak will say today that he’d cut taxes once inflation is reined in, getting the veiled backing of a certain William Hague who opines in The Times that “Thatcher would not be cutting taxes now – The pledges of Tory leadership hopefuls are fiscally unconservative and diverge from the party’s most successful leaders” (link, paywalled). Oh look: Hague used the T-word! Not that Mrs T comes to my mind when I hear ‘Sunak’ …
The Tory Blog ‘ConHome’ published a new party members popularity poll regarding those candidates, having Ms Mordaunt at the top, closely followed by Ms Badenoch (link). This poll is of party members, it doesn’t reflect their standing inside the Parliamentary Party where the candidates must now get a sufficient number of MPs supporting them for the first cut-off date at 6pm today.
The Guardian, not a Tory paper, is enjoying this contest very much, so we find some lovely gems in their report, for example:
“Candidates on the right of the party are now vying to be the anti-Sunak candidate, with multiple contenders competing for MPs’ votes in a way that has alarmed some party grandees.” (link)
Is Sunak now ‘of the Left’ and thus worthy of reluctant Guardian support? Interesting …There’s more, underlining the fact that the candidates appear not to give a toss about what those grandees say. There will be much hot air generated by the leadership campaigners. The Guardian appears to have some excellent sources and is of course not scared to print what they say, for example:
“Allies of Braverman attacked Mordaunt on Monday for staying in Theresa May’s cabinet during the Brexit years. Steve Baker, the influential hard Brexiter who backs Braverman, said he had been a “bruised captain in the trenches … They chose to stay in cabinet and vote for a deal that would have destroyed the Conservative party.” (link)
Oh – a mud fight between wimmin! How very entertaining! There’s also the more weighty fight between Sunak and Tugendhat, one refusing to cut taxes unless ‘inflation is gripped’, the other proposing to ’cut fuel duty and reverse the NI rise’ (link).
Sir John Redwood penned a fine diary entry today, very much in the vein of a Tory Grandee. His concluding paragraph is interesting not for his carefully refraining from giving even the scintilla of a hint of support for one or the other candidate, but for a truly important point, a point I’ve been writing about for years (my emphasis):
“[…] The other truth is the unelected governing establishment will be looking to circumscribe or control an incoming Prime Minister. Some of them see it as an opportunity to bin work on The Northern Ireland Protocol, human rights law reform, controlling our own borders, setting our own VAT and using the freedoms of Brexit.” (link)
Indeed, Sir John – but what have you, what are you and your fellow grandees doing about this? Wouldn’t it be nice if you and your fellow grandees were to educate whoever is your next leader about these facts? Perhaps you and your grandee colleagues might be more outspoken on this issues specially since you won’t be sanding in the next GE?
I leave you with news from a piece in the DT, by some of their eminent columnists writing about ‘what it was like’ in the days of that Great Heatwave 1976 (paywalled link). It’s interesting not so much because of the accompanying photo of Londoners cooling down in the Serpentine all being rake-thin, not one obese person in sight. No, it’s because of the wail about ‘my terrible guilt’ by the female author: she let her kids play in the sun without slathering them in sunscreen! See, that’s what happens when Nanny State doesn’t give ‘guidance’ we have to follow. Weren’t we all much happier in those days, left to our own devices!
It’s already started today and will continue for the duration of this heatwave: we’ll be harassed, we’ll hear warnings, we’ll receive guidance because we couldn’t possibly know how to behave. Hosepipe bans are already on the cards and we remember what that means: incessant downpours. That’s why I suggest you soak up the sun and heat while it lasts. You have been warned!
I am in mourning! I am mourning the loss of the Britain that I grew up in! It wasn’t perfect. It had its fair share of political shenanigans and sleazy scandals but it was home and it belonged to us! Now it feels as though alien beings have leeched the life blood out of it and the lacklustre crop of scoundrels that pose as our MPs have sold out the country to a globalist cabal who have caused the destruction of our homeland for their own greedy and poisonous ends. What remains is a bag of old bones that is being fought over by a bunch of vultures posing as wannabe PMs who are eager to ingratiate themselves with their global masters and be rewarded with largesse for having done the dirty work of delivering Britain in chains and poverty to be finally and completely decimated! May they all rot in hell! I want none of them!
My thoughts exactly. I totally despair. And so many of the people I know at least don’t know and don’t care.
Meanwhile, Maharaja Ritchie (the Oligark) Soonak is top trumps for Prime Minister.
The current oven ready turkey (incumbent) is expected to leave in August.
”For you Bukraine Borris, za vor is ovfer. Ovfer dare – bye, bye”.
What happens then? Anything? Anything at all different?
It used to be only the extreme left that redefined words and phrases or their scope: racist, homophobia, say. Now, not withstanding the accelerating leftward drift of the Overton Window, any self-respecting narrative purveyor can get in on the act: ‘woman’, ‘vaccine’, ‘herd immunity’, ‘safe and effective’, ‘extreme weather’. We used to have four seasons, one of which was summer. Now we have Autumn, Winter, Spring and Heatwave (if we are lucky); even a couple of days of sun is now a heatwave.
It seems to me that what they really don’t want is children getting fresh air, exercise and their full complement of Vitamin D; anything that makes them healthy in fact. And Heaven forbid that children should have some fun at last; it might break the spell that many have been held under for two years. Klaus said there is no going back to the old normal, but some of us never left it and others, well, there is that Charles Mackay quote that people “go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.”
“It seems to me that what they really don’t want is children getting fresh air, exercise and their full complement of Vitamin D; anything that makes them healthy in fact”.
Utterly evil. Resist disobey resist
A couple of caveats to my list yesterday. Two issues on which I omitted any reference because, so far as I have seen, not a single candidate is off narrative: Ukraine and Net Zero. Some challenge the cost or scale of ‘net zero’ measures, but none calls out the core lie. So on those, unfortunately it will be business as usual unless a tipping point is reached; things get so bad or obviously off message that necessity trumps virtue-signalling. For anyone awake we reached that long ago, but you know what I mean.
The new phrase that people need to be seriously warned about is people of “Global Majority” currently being used in our more urban areas.
The aim of this new phrase is to marginalise and make subservient the indigenous British people in their own land, whole bodies commitees etc are being planned and will be made up of those of the Global Majority, (non indigenous people) all in the name of fairness, diversity and other country destroying umberella labels.
Yes, indeed what is/has Sir John and his colleagues on the supposed centre Right of the Party been doing over the last 20 years in educating their leaders about the agenda of the unelected establishment that control all incoming PMs? Nor, come to think of it, have the Tory associations called time on the liberal Tory MPs who fall into line with the unelected establishment. What a wretched Party – the pox on them all.
Yesterdat the DT online announced:-
Jacob Rees-Mogg mulls Tory leadership bid. Cabinet Office minister canvassing whether to stand as ‘pro-Boris candidate’.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/07/11/jacob-rees-mogg-mulls-tory-leadership-bid/?WT.mc_id=e_DM7955&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_FPM_New&utmsource=email&utm_medium=Edi_FPM_New20220711&utm_campaign=DM7955
As one of the comments said, “…at least he looks like a PM.”
Let us pray that he can be persuaded to take up the poisoned chalice.
If he does (however, unlikely or rather impossible IMHO; just won’t happen ) will he make a stand against the WHO?
https://unitynewsnetwork.co.uk/tina-brooker-calls-out-bill-cash-rees-mogg-over-who-sovereignty-betrayal/
Sunak:
Let’s not forget that he was at the WEF recently; no doubt getting his instructions.
Jack. Tugendaht and Gove were at the Bilderberger 2022 shortly afterwards getting their instructions.
Having lived and worked in much hotter climates than the UK for some years I shall not be heeding any of the scaremongering… I suggest we all do the same and enjoy the warmer weather with, of course, sensible and usual precautions where necessary.
Agreed in my case the equator. But we are probably from a generation that thought for itself and stood on our own two feet. One dose of calamine lotion and you always covered up thereafter as appropriate.
And, last time, some years ago, I was in Death Valley and at seven or eight o’clock in the evening it was 126 deg (real degrees, not berlin degrees). The ice creams were melting quicker than we could lick them!
To stop inflation, merely cut a few of the cunningly and misleadingly named taxes on petrol and energy. The effect would be proportionatly beneficial. Also dismay our woke twiteratits who would be proportionally stuffed’
Jack, some of us remember 1976!
Am I the only one to notice that ‘heatwaves’ now get heralded at temperatures which most of us just regard as nice summer weather? As for when we get up over 30 degrees – it’s what the Redtops used to gleefully headline ‘Phew what a scorcher’ with inevitable photos of the traditional beach fry up. (pink bodies spreadeagled on beach towels)
I remember that summer full well! I was in Cambridge at that time, for an intensive english Language course – and I thought it was just lovely summer weather, just as I was used to in Berlin.
Mind, going back home I did notice the dry, brown expanse of ‘grass’ in Hyde Park but again thought this was ‘normal summer’ … Little did I know …
You’re quite right that a ‘heatwave’ is now when it’s around a lovely 25º C- and it’s a ‘wave’ consisting of two or three days in succession – days, not weeks. There was another recent ‘heatwave’, in 2002 or ’03. My husband had gone to Turkey for some excavations, temperatures around the 30ºC mark – and back home here in sunny Kairdiff we were sweltering for days at 32ºC. The collies hated it, especially since there was hardly any water in the Taff for swimming …
I remember when anything over 70 was a lovely warm day.
Indeed Helena.
The Climate Change Scam:
At last some useful opposition to the government narrative:
https://dailysceptic.org/2022/07/11/top-climate-scientists-slam-global-warming-so-called-evidence-as-misrepresentation-exaggeration-and-outright-lying/
“At last some useful opposition to the government narrative”
here is some more Jack.
Professor Ian Plimer April 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txQcX0fm5bs
I expect that the two Emeritus Professors will get the same blanking/cancelling/blocking that Prof Plimer has had and is continuing to be subjected to.
When anybody claims that since 1842 ( a date chosen at random) to the present day ‘The Science’ shows we are being slowly boiled like frogs. Refer them to Prof Plimer’s address above.
OK the video is over 1hr (incl questions etc), but what to do in this warming cauldron we are in, but crack a couple of Tinnies and throw another steak (for how much longer?) on the barbie.
It is nice and warm out here but I will be taking the advice of SAGE/PHE & HMgOV.Bllks and scurry down to my darkened cellar for a hot chocolate (Not).
Plimer is one of the best. There was a special pre-publication reduced price signed copy offer before Christmas for his book Green Murder. I signed up but it never came and I received my money back. I later found it over £30 on Amazon so I passed. So thanks for this link.
The Conservative ‘party’ is now quite open about what it thinks of it’s own members and the wider population and now adds insult to injury by not only telling you what to do when it’s hot, but puts the covid lockdown ‘dame’ in charge of the ‘heat emergency’, good innit!