Thank you Michael Gove!

Who would have predicted that Gove would stab Johnson in the back? There again he has done the same to his friend David Cameron, so I suppose it should have been expected. Gove does not seem likely to poll enough votes from MP's to get into the final two, who will be put to a vote by Tory Party members; it seems likely that the second place slot will go to Andrea Leadsom. 

  

Theresa May does appear to be the safest choice for the negotiations with the EU but she's no charismatic Margaret Thatcher (more a British Angela Merkel) and was almost absent from the Remain campaign. Perhaps she was hoping to take advantage of the chaos that she knew would erupt after the result, whichever way it went. Nonetheless maybe it's time for a more realistic female approach instead of one lead by idealistic male dreams and fantasies!

There's lots of comment even in the tabloids about the lies that were told by the Leave campaign, particularly the battlebus £350 million a week lie. The biggest and most dangerous lie of all was blaming the lack of school places, social housing, healthcare etc on migrants. This was a masterstroke, worthy of the worst demagogues of the 20th century and has already given rise to an increase in racist attacks against EU migrants. The real reason for those strains in public services is aggressive Tory austerity cuts, but Corbyn was incapable of countering the Leave campaigns slick slogans.

Corbyn is a disaster for the Labour party! The country needs an effective opposition to rein back the Tory right wing and tell some truths that stick, otherwise look at the mess that they create!
Corbyn, for all his honesty and idealism, is totally useless as a political leader! Having lost the support of two thirds of his MP's he should go quickly, and not try to hang on pathetically in the hope of being rescued by his £3 party voters in a leadership election that could not re-establish him as leader of the Labour Party even if he won!

Today Johnson, writing in his £250,000 a year column in the Daily Telegraph, is calling the chaos and emotional uncertainty that he, himself, has created ”Project Fear Hysteria” and comparing it to the national mourning which gripped the nation following Princess Diana’s death.  He can’t distinguish genuine feelings from journalistic lies and half-truths. One doesn’t need to add that his tasteless comparison is offensive and disgusting. 

He goes on to accuse the Government of manipulating public opinion! Well he should know! And he calls for the public to be told some basic truths – not, of course, based on the opinions of the experts that he and Gove rubbished during the leave campaign but on his own unverified unilateral assertions. Are we expected to take him seriously! 

This man appears to be out of touch with reality, but as a columnist he doesn’t need to believe in and stand by his statements because he will probably need to write something more interesting next month to retain his well paid post!  You don’t sell newspapers by being boringly consistent!  

Thank you Michael Gove, for taking away from Johnson the possibility of being Prime Minister, and effectively ruling yourself out, at least this time round!