A video doing the rounds on social media has just provided me with the answer to who will succeed Rishi Sunak, after he hopefully leads the Tories to disaster at the next general election. In it, we see the quarter-witted former home secretary Priti Patel ‘dancing’ with thoroughly modern Mosley, the nicotine-stained man frog Nigel Farage, at a social event associated with the Conservative party conference in Manchester. Speculation is rife about the future Tory leadership and it occurred to me to get my ideas down on the blog before a professional journalist runs with the idea and claims all the credit.
It seems hard to imagine the Tory party moving any further to the hard right from where the useless Sunak is taking it, as he attempts to shore up his position as leader, but let’s be honest, it will not be moving to the centre ground, never mind the left, if it is hammered in the election. So far, speculation has been that Sue-Ellen (her real name) aka Suella Braverman will succeed Sunak, on the not unreasonable grounds that she’s on the populist political right and becoming even more right wing by the minute. Patel might also fancy her chances or even right-wing fruitcake Kemi Badenoch, who like Patel and Braverman, is a nasty piece of work. But there’s one candidate who can’t even be a candidate yet because he’s not a member of the Conservative Party: Nigel Farage.
The former UKIP/Brexit Party ticks so many right wing Tory boxes. He helped destroy the country by leading the campaign for the UK to leave Europe, he hates migrants, he’s pro Putin and openly wants to get rid of the NHS. What better man to take the UK forward under the slogan ‘NEXT STOP OBLIVION’?
For the ”THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN IN THE UK – THIS IS NOT AMERICA’ brigade, oh yes it could. America is where Farage’s fascist friend Donald Trump operates. The Republican Party has been shaped in Trump’s image and he is unassailable, despite facing numerous criminal charges. Who is to say that Farage, backed by – how shall I put this? – the type of dubious money that helped the Leave EU campaign succeed could not become the next Tory leader? He is utterly without shame, devoid of principles and so perfectly qualified to succeed Sunak.
Of course, first we need to get rid of this Tory government and that is all that matters at the moment. This will be a very long, very ugly campaign lasting perhaps for over a year. Sunak will lurch ever further to the right in order to shore up his position but the truth is he actually isn’t very good at politics and I suspect he will get wiped away in the turmoil. Farage, despite never having won a single first past the post election in the UK, is very good at politics and could easily find the G spot of the Tory membership.
None of this might happen . I just had a lightbulb moment where I thought it might and I can see all the reasons why it will. The Tory shires are even more right wing and reactionary than the parliamentary party. And rules in politics only exist to be re-written. But when people talk of the Tories heading off to the fringes of far right politics, why bother with the likes of Braverman when you can have the real thing? Yes, Farage is a chancer but he’s surrounded by astute fixers and establishment figures – never forget, Farage is 100% a part of the establishment and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise – and shit loads of money.
Farage for Tory leader, maybe even PM? Why not? In 2019, the country chose Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson to be its prime minister, a narcissist who believes in nothing apart from his own advancement. Anything is possible in a politically broken country like the UK.
