Blue on blue

As we enter day 500 of the Tory Battle Royale, we are down to the final three, and pleas to play nice have, well, been ignored.

Penny Mordor, the Express'es favoured candidate, tweeted this morning:

"Tory MPs - vote for Rishi Sunak or Liz Triss today and you'll murder the party you love"

The night before, a fellow MP claimed Penny was running a "clean" campaign.

The obvious thing to state here is that, whoever is elected leader of the party, others will have to work with them, and stuff like this means some will be excluded.

Which as these three are not the sharpest knives in a Tory drawer of blunt ones, is saying something.

One of them will be eliminated today, and the rest of JUly, all of August and some of September will be taken up with more campaigning between the two.

All Labour has had to do is make a video of the statements made during the debates and point out the blame and accusations being thrown about by the contenders is after the Conservative arty has been in power 12 years and two months, and all of them were Ministers in Johnson's Government, so went along with the policies whether they thought them right or not.

Meanwhile, there is no one in charge, as Johnson is refusing to attend PMQs today, and Patel refused a second time to attend a Select Committee and the UK-Austalia trade deal will not be debated, even though MPs were promised. As the details will be so embarassing for the person who negotiated it: Liz Truss. So, they'd rather break a promise to MPs so not to damage her chances in being elected Leader.

If she could screw up on portfolio, imaging the chaos she could do in Number 10!

What happens if whoever is elected by the Party membership doesn't have the support of the Parliamentary Party or Parliament itself? Another new leader election...

Imagine the chaos of an Ed Milliband Government in 2015.....