One Nation Tories

David Cameron, whose ineptitude paved the way for May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak, is now Foreign Secretary.

I have a theory - Sunak wants to appeal to the old style, One Nation Conservatives, but the talent pool is so thin that he's trapped into having to believe that sleaze is far more preferable to ex Tories than blatant corruption and lunatic, fascist ideology.

It's a gamble, especially as not one of Cameron's policies while PM was a success and he was mired in the Greensill affair, but the Tory faithful may just go for that. They've gone for dafter things, when all is said and done.

The bind they're in is that they spotted the drift of their lunatic fringe to Ukip and, to stop it, they had to out-Kipper the Kippers. They succeeded beyond their wildest dreams, but at a cost - terminal factionalism as the Kippers wanted to take over.

Basically, Sunak is ditching the Kipper, Brexiteer, crypto-fascist contingency (not to forget the thugs, bully-boys, psychopaths, sacked policemen, security guards, sacked security guards, racialists, etc) tail that's wagging the dog, realising they are never going to win him an election and are indeed a liability, hoping to turn an utter rout into a lesser rout, retain at least a few key seats and rebuild the party in its original form without the lunatic, entryist, Kipper baggage from the Johnson era.

Here's Reggie Perrin and Jimmy talking about it all.