Sunak seems to have little power. Zahawi and Braverman are protected by the right wing. Sunak cannot settle the strikes as he is powerless. Johnson is stirring up as much trouble as he can with visits to Davos and now the Ukraine. He also has questions to answer regarding Richard Sharp at The BBC, and why Bamford is providing free accommodation. Truss and Kwarteng are also setting up lobby group for lower taxes. Red wall Tories are crying out for funding. Sleeze-Dogg is on GBNews stirring the pot some more. And party grandees like Clarke, Major and May are calling for a more centrist path.
As Abraham Lincoln said “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time”. Truss and the ERG had a go at fooling all of the people some of the time – and what a disaster that was (Costing the country in excess of £50billilon). Sunak is not even fooling some of the people some of the time. Increased use of twitter does not change a lie – it is still a lie, but seen by more people. Gove saying that Zahawi has done nothing wrong is still wrong, even if repeated on BBC. Brexit is still, and will be for ever more, a disaster.
So crystal ball time. Johnson will continue to enjoy his paid for antics for the rest of the year and past the next election. Surely he is not so stupid as to think he can win the next election? The ERG will continue to hamper any hopes of an economic revival by ridiculous claims of tax cuts. Sunak might be pushed out, but the tories would find it hard to justify yet another PM in one Parliament. Johnson unlikely to risk it – he will wait for Labour to struggle with both the mess they will be left with, and with the regressive legislation that will need repealing! Johnson will have built up a large war chest by then, the MSM will be all over him, criticisms will be washed aside with positive (albeit meaningless words). So it will be the election after next which is the crucial one! Will Starmer move to the left enough to gain the public support that Corbyn had before being crucified by his own party and the MSM? Meanwhile have the LibDems and Greens given up and gone home? The Looney Right will also have their moments – are there enough to cause irreparable damage to the Conservative and Unionist Party. The SNP seem to have a hold on Scotland which can only be softened by the SLP, The Scottish Conservative Party seems to be a minority in all ways since Ruth Davidson’s brave last stand.