𝓤𝓷𝓲𝓽𝓮𝓭 𝓝𝓮𝔀𝓼

You can see it can’t you – at the next G20, the imposing trio of Putin, Xi Jinping and Trump, grim-faced, shoulder to shoulder for the official photo. And, projecting Britain’s power in the world… cheeky little Wes Streeting grinning at the back. Wes Streeting, possibly the only gay man in Britain with absolutely no dress sense. Wes Streeting a man who looks as comfortable in a suit as a teenager at his first job interview. Wes Streeting a man who crows about his brilliant steering of the NHS like the captain of a sinking ocean liner bragging “look on the brightside lads, we’re taking a lot longer to sink than the Titanic.”

And Wes Streeting the man poised to facilitate a cataclysmic hard left takeover of Britain, after his resignation this lunchtime seems sure to trigger a leadership contest. Fortunately you don’t have to imagine him at the G20 because little Wes is highly unlikely to win that leadership contest.

Despite what other pundits might tell you, trying to second guess these things is as precise and scientific an endeavour as backing the winner at today’s 3.30 at York (See The Fire at 5/4 if you ask me… but don’t blame me if it doesn’t come in!). And this is the reason I went with “highly unlikely to” rather than “definitely won’t”.

But the clever money is on Wes ending up as the Starmer government’s Sir Anthony Meyer – the man who came from nowheresville to be the first ‘stalking horse’ to Margaret Thatcher before promptly returning to nowheresville as Michael Heseltine, Major and Douglas Hurd stepped up to stab their leader in the back.

If this thing does go to a race I’m afraid the winner is likely to be far, far more left wing and cryptocommunist than nice, centrist little social democrat Wes.

Is that what you voted for?

But that, in this travesty of a democracy in which we live, is what we get, time and time again.

Vote for Tony Blair – get Gordon Brown, vote for David Cameron – get Theresa May, vote for Theresa May – get Boris Johnson, vote for Boris Johnson – get Rishi Sunak… it’s quite shocking isn’t it? When you see the list.

We didn’t vote for any of those people in power over us.

And yet we allow them to stroll into the highest office in the land after a ballot of a handful of people. A portion of the Labour Party’s 200,000 members – the ones who can be bothered voting – will decide Britain’s leader. They will be, by definition, avowed left wingers. And some of them will be Britain-hating nut-jobs.

And if that’s democracy I’m a banana.

Of course political anoraks will say “you vote for the party not the person”. But we all know that’s cobblers – and so do they.

Thatcher, Blair, Johnson .. we voted for them, not their party’s policy on shellfish regulations or glyphosate use.

And so, without a murmur, if this goes the way it looks likely, we are about to end up with a Union-approved (and Union kowtowing) hard left Prime Minister.

Angela Rayner, Ed Miliband or Andy Burnham – people who wouldn’t have a cat in hell’s chance in a general election. The Unions, which hold the financial whip over Labour, of course despise Wes, which is why his No10 goose is pretty much cooked.

And talking of Ange by the way, isn’t the real mystery of Rayner’s “tax-efficiencies” not that a woman who would be leader of this country didn’t know where she lived, it was how the hell she got her hands on 40 grand to pay back HMRC.

Could you fish out £40,000 from down the back of the sofa? No, me neither.

And yet Ange, the arch-socialist and northern working-class hero (think you’ll find that position’s already taken love), a woman who wants us to believe grew up sparking her clogs on the cobbled streets of Stockport surrounded by Lowryesque figures dolefully making their way t’mill… can seemingly stump up 40k without missing a beat.

She’s a socialist fraud isn’t she?

Just for clarity almost half of UK adults have little or no savings.

So, to most of them Rayner sits perfectly comfortably alongside, say, Nigel Farage under the heading “rich people”.

Our Ange has done very nicely out of the ‘capitalist’ system she professes to hate, the one she is now trying to destroy for everyone else.

I’ve digressed: the point is you did not vote for an anti-Brexit, welfare-stateist, pro-Palestine, higher borrowing, cripplingly high taxing, anti-capitalist, anti-American, wealth-destroying Prime Minister.

But you are going to get one.