By Isle of Wight Observer
Winston Churchill wanted to fight them on the beaches, Rishi Sunak decided to leave them to it. “At the going down of the sun, Rishi’s off to record for ITV1.”
To be fair, Sunak’s not the first Conservative politician to leave Europe without proper thought for the consequences. How does he expect teenagers to do a whole year’s national service when he can’t manage a full day with the armed forces. What was he thinking? How many votes could you possibly win doing a TV interview as opposed to staying and creating a good impression in Normandy?
By failing to stick around, he snubbed the US president. I just hope the American government don’t hold it against him after the election when he moves over there. It’s hard enough to get a green card, isn’t it? Maybe Rishi calculated sleepy Joe Biden won’t remember who was there!
Rishi claims Labour will cost us all £2,000 over the next four years, Labour disputes it but anyway under the Tories, taxes have risen by £13,000 since 2019. If Starmer’s only going to cost us two grand each, he’ll save us a fortune. Where do I send my cheque?
The country is in serious debt, partly because of Covid, but I wonder how much they wasted. A Daily Mail poll predicts just 39 Tory MP’s could remain the morning after polling day. That’s almost unimaginable carnage, but they’ve no-one to blame but themselves. Last time out, we voted for a Conservative government with Boris as Prime minister. Sunak and his backstabbing parliamentary cronies conspired to remove him and deserve to lose. I know Labour haven’t won yet, but the Tories have surely lost.
There’s an astonishing level of support for the Reform UK Party. Incredibly, on the Island, they’re rumoured to have more party members than the Tories. Over time and five prime ministers, the Tories became smug, incompetent and totally out of touch. The ‘strong and stable’ tax cutting party now resemble a bunch of self-obsessed amateurs. They’re no longer recognisable as the party of the right or centre. Who knows what they stand for – except themselves. These chancers have been in charge of every single failing public service and despite what they repeatedly said, broke records on immigration numbers. ‘Taking back control’ was the very reason many of us voted to leave the EU.
Bumbling Bob Seely will be very fortunate indeed to cling on, and frankly doesn’t deserve to. He’s made the classic error of forgetting who his employer was. Over 7 years, Seely has disappeared up his own backside, focussing only on his personal obsessions. He’s neglected the Island, so all he can do now is point to a tiny list of self-proclaimed achievements, including £26 million blown on a short section of railway that doesn’t work.
Bob’s new manifesto commitment on ferries is a last-minute panic measure. His non-existent ‘Island deal’ is equally catastrophic to his chances. To cap it all, too many Islanders say he never replies to their emails, and then there’s that half-a-sausage. During the darkest days of Covid lockdowns, accompanied by his girlfriend, Bob arrogantly drove from Brook to Seaview for a nice little party. When caught out, he claimed he didn’t stay long and only had half a sausage and a glass of wine. Breaking the draconian laws the rest of us were subject to renders Bob unfit for office. When challenged at Wednesday night’s hustings, every candidate and most of the audience seemed to think his criminal behaviour rendered him unfit for public office. Only Bob tried arguing lawbreaking can be irrelevant.
How did he manage to avoid a fine when his Downing Street colleagues all got them? Should he still face punishment? Maybe we’ll get the answer to that question on polling day.