Sunday 3rd July
We are in strange territory, for the first time that I can remember both main Political Parties are in turmoil, the Conservatives are in the throes of a Leadership contest and Labour should be, but may not actually have one. The LibDems of course are almost dead and buried (thankyou Mr. Clegg) and UKIP though they are riding high now still have only one M.P.; come the next election the heat over Europe may have died down a bit (or not). The SNP seem impregnable in Scotland but they may have passed their peak, and can no longer blame Labour for Scottish woes.
It may look as if the Tories are the only show in town, but they are still as split as ever over Europe, and maybe even more so now that the referendum is over and the hard negotiations will soon start. Although the Media are urging whoever wins their leadership to call a General Election, why would they risk losing when they have just achieved becoming Prime Minister? And even though Labour are in a mess and supposedly ‘unelectable’, together with the SNP in Scotland they could still deny the Tories an absolute majority. And I am not at all sure that current favourite Theresa May will win; the Tories have a history of choosing outsiders – and remember the party is overwhelmingly Brexit. I think that Andrea Leadsom has a strong chance of winning, and she is such a rabid ‘Outer’ that she could find her party quite unmanageable.
And as Labour are still in a mess, and there is a strong possibility of Jeremy either staying or winning again we could have large numbers of very dissatisfied M.P.s in both parties led by people they don’t agree with. The natural solution would be to form a new party of the centre. Well, stranger things have happened in just the ten days since the vote. And as this party would be largely women like Theresa and Angela Eagle, maybe it should be called the Vagina party. And the biggest danger they would face would be that just suffered by Labour. Their slogan must be “No Entryism into the Vagina party.” Have a nice day.