The woeful standard of wannabe leaders – KemiKaze, Jimmy Dimly, Honest Bob – proves the Tories’ masochistic need to be abused
Tory leadership candidate Robert Jenrick at the Conservative party conference in Birmingham, where he proudly stated he had ‘defended statues’.Tory leadership candidate Robert Jenrick at the Conservative party conference in Birmingham, where he proudly stated he had ‘defended statues’.redit where credit is due. You’d have thought the Tory party conference would be a downbeat affair. A death spiral of despair. Instead, it’s as if everyone is out of their heads on acid.
Weirdly, they even think that the whole country is tuned into them. Their wishes and desires. That their role in choosing the next Tory leader is the focus of everyone’s attention. Forget war in Lebanon, all anyone really cares about in Birmingham is who is going to win the leadership election. No one has had the heart to tell them that the Tory endgame is an irrelevance to almost everyone.So there is a buzz throughout the conference compound. An excitement. A sense of self-importance.
Kemi is just … Kemi. KemiKaze. The most unpredictable of the four because even she has no idea what she’s going to say before she says it. And not much idea of what she’s said after she’s said it. Right now she is furious with journalists forMostly, she’s furious with herself for not being able to control her mouth. Or her hands. She’s also managed to put outAs for Robert Jenrick, he was first up in the main hall for an hour-long wannabe leader’s interview.
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