Circus games

Normally, watching the Conservative Party implode would provide free entertainment. But in the middle of a new wave of infections,a nd with Brexit in a mess, what happens next is very much important to us as well.

First of all, Brexit.

Lord Frost has resigned because the policies Lord Frost negotiated mandated trade offs that Lord Frost couldn't agree with.

Lord Frost should have stern words with Lord Frost over the twerms of the WA and NIP.

It was briefed this week that a major change of direction was being mooted, and that seems as to why Frost resigned, no matter what he said were the reasons. Mentioning tax receipts and the green agenda just appeals to Brexit headbangers and those on the right wing of the Party.

Who Johnson selects to take over and what job they have will be enlightning. If the role is given Cabinet status, then he can do the job as directed, a non-Cabinet job means being underminded by backbenchers in the ERG.

Farrage has already crawled out from under whatever rock he has been steaming under, accusing JOhnson of being a remainer and not a Conservative. Nigel is literally not a Conservative, but there is his threats to return with the Brexit Party to keep the Tories in line.

If there is to be a softening in tone on Brexit with the EU,, that will not play well with the ERG and they would move to have a vote of non-confidence via the 1922 committee.

Who then would be elected: hardliner or someone more pragmatic?

There is always the chance, that if someone pragmatic is choen, and things settle down, that at any point in the future someone more brexity could be elected and cause a new battlefront.

Because, conflict with the EU plays to the Tory Base and the backbenchers.

But then, who has encouraged Frost to resign, and what was he promised as a reward? He already has a peerage and so a job for life, and enelected bureaucrat, but then as he has show, he can easily go from remainer to Brexiteer if there's a good paycheck in it. Someone has been briefing the press, who has their eye on the prize, and what will it mean for this Brexit Plague Island and all of us imprisoned on it?