11/10/2005

Tory Ball!

entry posted by Inquisitor at 22:32 (permalink).
categories: Politics

So, now Malcolm Rifkind's out the leadership race (going for Ken Clarke), it's time to size up the contenders for leader of the Conservative party.

• Ken Clarke - Pro-Europe, good, experienced, better, but that whole BAT thing's a bit dodgy, isn't it?
• David Cameron - an acceptable compromise candidate, if a bit smarmy and completely inexperienced. So basically Blair 2, then.
• David Davis - (tumbleweed blows)
• Liam Fox - The "Tombstone" group supports him. That pretty much says it all, doesn't it... [More fun on Cornerstone at the Virtual Stoa.]

Really, Labour aren't going to have any opposition for a long time, more's the pity. Ken Clarke will get pureed over all his company directorships - especially the BAT one - and for very good reasons too. David Davis is boring. Liam Fox is boring, but in a scary way. Cameron is completely inexperienced, but there's something there; the best out the bunch, unfortunately, is Ken Clarke, who is at least a decent Parliamentary entertainer. (If you wanted that, however, you'd bring William Hague back.)

It'll be David Cameron, I think. So we can only hope that Gordon's better than Tony...

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