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It was a dirty job, but someone had to read it. Thanks for the dissection. Would that there was a driving Machiavellian Mendelson in the Tory party with a remotely New-conservative vision? Bunter did have a common touch - most of the Street conflicts with the public during his election campaign were edited to obscure the fact that he often won over his critics. But his leadership had no Trump-like populist tendencies, no mass demonstrations to mobilise the base before and after his win. It was smoke and mirrors, and invariably, Bunter went against his inclinations (https://aethelstan.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-two-leaders). I have shared my take on the Truss period (https://aethelstan.substack.com/p/the-cathedral-meets-trussvision) and it covers much of what it appears Dorries is saying. Boris Johnson's three big rights: Brexit ( a tweaking of Mays flawed plan) Zero Carbon hopeless economic and there for social self-destruction; Covid, he backed down and repeatedly lockdown the country, unleashed a surveillance state and sacked low-paid women care workers mRNA refuseniks; the mRNA roll which will prove to be a short-term, medium term and long term disaster. But I think the record levels of inward Net migration and the cavorting with G7, Neo Connery in Kiev, gutted Brexit of any real relevance.

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