My take on Tory leadership election

​So throughout the summer, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have been campaigning hard everywhere in the United Kingdom in the race to become the next Conservative leader & the next Prime Minister to replace the outgoing and unpopular Prime Minister Boris Johnson. 

So tomorrow there will be the next Conservative/Tory leader & the PM to succeed the outgoing PM Boris Johnson who have not been popular with the British public, here’s my analysis on the leadership election. Based on my opinion. 

So since that the UK is multicultural country. Unfortunately for the Conservative Party. most of the members doesn’t want him Rishi Sunak (who is Indian by descent) to be the next PM. 

One. They see him (Rishi Sunak) as a backstabber for brining down Prime Minister Boris Johnson when he stepped down as the Chancellor of the Exchequer before other cabinet ministers which it had recorded more than 50 cabinet ministers to step down from the govt. All because of this scandal 

https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-resigned-why-prime-minister-quit-chris-pincher-scandal-mp-resignations-1729346 

Even the Covid 19 partygate scandal had tarnished the reputation of Boris Johnson & the government. Even Sunak himself given he used to be popular once he became the Chancellor before the pandemic in 2020. 

2. Conservative (Tory) members are mostly white, middle aged (& elderly = older particularly 60+) and racist (160k of them plus some Tory members used to be an member of extreme far right parties) despite the party itself claims they have diverse politicians but wouldn’t want any of them to be the first PM from ethnicity minority background. That explains why Liz Truss is the favourite to win the Tory leadership. No wonder ethnic minority voters here in this country always doesn’t give a vote to the Conservatives & that they always vote Labour.

3. Rishi Sunak is not popular. Most of cabinet ministers who are loyal to the outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson, strongly disliked Sunak cos they see him as a traitor for stepping down as the Chancellor last month (July) from the cabinet which opinion polls shows that he will not win the leadership election against Liz Truss. So it is likely the next UK PM & Conservative leader will be woman for third time since Theresa May and Margaret Thatcher. Two UK female PMs & Tory leaders. 

And 4. Sunak’s own scandals. 

His wife is richer than the Queen & that she pays no tax (nom dom tax) & the revelations that he holds US green card. That really undermined Sunak’s popularity as an politician & even his chances of being the favourite to be Boris Johnson’s successor just before Boris Johnson stepped down last month. 

https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/07/akshata-murty-who-is-rishi-sunak-wife

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61044847.amp 

& recently he build his own swimming pool in his home constituency while local swimming pools were shut. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/rishi-sunak-builds-private-pool-27619489.amp

And he admitted when he was a chancellor that he took money from deprived areas in the UK https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/2022/aug/05/video-emerges-of-rishi-sunak-admitting-to-taking-money-from-deprived-areas 

As for Liz Truss, the Iron Lady wannabe, she has her own controversies too. 

Every thing from joking whether France is a friend or foe by saying “the jury’s out” which was outrageous for her given she is the UK Foreign  Secretary which she should had known better to saying that British workers “more graft” & suggesting to ignore Nicola Sturgeon (First Minister of Scotland) by describing her as “attention seeker”. 

It is clear to me that the next Tory leader & the Prime Minister will not be better. Just like it was not better when Boris Johnson became the PM three years ago in 2019, succeeding Theresa May or in 2016 when Theresa May who became the PM, succeeding David Cameron over the Brexit referendum results that was held 6 years ago. The referendum that was not necessary. 

With the cost of living crisis, inflation & the impact of Brexit, Covid and 12 years of austerity, whether Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss is the next PM & Tory leader by tomorrow, the Conservatives under three PMs & soon to have 4th PM since 2010, have really tarnished the UK’s reputation in the world stage. We got two or three more years until the next general election. No wonder now the Tories are not leading the polls. So let’s see how it will go with the new PM whether is Sunak or Truss. Only time will tell.