A real change

Over the years I have written about how May's, Johnson's, Truss's and now Sunak's Governments just do not have the skills, knowledge to be able to drive policy forward, or even to understand their briefs.

And then the Prime Ministers themselves, how people clearly so unsuitable to be PM or leader of the Conservative and Union Party, that issue needs addressing.

May was a compromise candidate, and struggled with the divisions in the Party. Divisions that Johnson dealt with by expelling all who disagreed with him. The so called "one-nation Tories", who voted aganst Johnson before the election, were kicked out f the party, even Churchill's Grandson was gone.

We thought May was a bad communicator. Heck, we knew she was. Her robotic dance, attempts at humour. But even before becoming PM, it was her policy as Home Secretary that invented the hostile atmosphere for migrants, legal or illegal.

Michael Gove knew Johnson would be a dreadful PM, so scuppered his leadership bid in 2016 when May won, but did nothing three years later when Johsnon stood again.

Johnson is a serial liar. Sacked twice for lying, broke marriage vows, once when one wife was in hospital with cancer. We don't even know for sure how many children he has sired. Its some kind of State secret.

Like in the US, the UK under Johnson became a place where "post-truth" ruled. Post truth is lying in a fancy coat. Who cares if its a lie, it feels right.

And if the lie supports your belief, then what is the harm?

As an auditor, evidence based decision making is key things I look for. What inputs to a decsion, what outputs have you drawn from that consideration. Instead, Brexit was about belief. That's all it was, and if it didn't work, its because you din't believe in it enough, and if it failed when you were PM, then it was because you were really a Remainer.

As PM, Johnson gave the then Monarch, unlawful advice, which the Supreme COurt overruled. That should have been a resignation matter, instead he ignored the fact and called an election.

That Johnson would be have in that way surprised few who knew him, so those who worked beside him either as journalists or as MPs, really should have known better than to elect hm leader. But they did anyway. Johnson repeatedly made false statements at the Dispatch Box, failed to correct the record, even when Government Institutions pointed out his untruths.

It was, of course, one of these lies at the Disptch Box, and his failure to correct the record, at the earliest opportunity that brought him down, in relation to the unlawful gatherings in Downing Street.

And then along came Liz Truss.

Cheese and jam loving Liz Truss.

Liz Truss was PM for 34 days and cost the UK economy and taxpayers some £74 billion pounds for the "growth" budget. Everyone's ension was going to to be worthless.

But it was all a plot. Apparently.

She was just too clever, and not given enough time.

She could barely string two sentences together she didn't read off an autocue. There is the recordings of the round of interviews she did for BBC local radio the week before she resigned.

She had been an MP since 2010, other Conservative MPs knew she was dreadful, even when May and Johnson made her a Minister, she was dreadful.

The only people it seemed to surprise was the MPs who voted them both as leaders, and the right wing newspapers that over-inflated their abilities and promised they would deliver the world. Or Brexit. Truss as some kind of 21st Century Mararet Thatcher.

Apparently.

Now we have Sunak.

Dr Death.

The billionaires husband.

Who is giving the rich more tax cuts.

Until the system that made them leaders of the Conservative Party and so PM, is changed, such people, unsuitable for high office, the highest office, will continue to rise to the top. If I want to apply for a new job as a quality manager, I have to prove I am capable, have the education, the knowledge, the experience. Grant Shapps has been Minister of State in 5 Departments, in less than a year what did he know about any of theose departments or areas of the economy?

Chris Grayling actual boasted it helped him be Secretary of State for Justice without having any kind of legal background. He privatised the parole system, anong other things. Later, Michael Gove appeared to be statesmanlike by simply reversing Graylings policies.

The Mail, Express, Times, Telegraph, the political editors of the BBC and ITV know how unsuitable these people were and would be bad at their jobs, yet cheered them on anyway. Those who pointed out the lack of clothes on these emperors whoere accused of talking Britain down.

If you pointed out the flws in their policies, you were doing the same, or enemies of the people.

How I yearn for a return to normal policits, where decisions are based on evidence, and MPs are promoted on knowledge and experience, not just for their belief in a flawed policy of their unwaivering support for the winner in the leadership election campaign. Until this system changes, and its pretty much the same over in Labour, we will get the MPs, Ministers and Prime Ministers we, as a country, deserve.

People voted for Johnson. We deserved what followed.

Had he not been elected, maybe a family member, friend, work colleague or neighbour would still be alive today. Don't tell me votes don't count.