Beginning of the end for Johnson?

[Kaz]

I think it will be Truss

[TheOstrich]

And I think she will be followed by Starmer, Kaz.

Talk about "least worst options" .....

[Suff]

Whoever is chosen, no matter what, is going to be followed by Starmer. British don't vote in the same government decade after decade after decade. They decide it's time for a change.

[Kaz]

We certainly need one.

[Workingman]

If you have a hernia or rupture you need a Truss, and boy, are the Toxics herniated and ruptured.

If you are light in the wallet / purse, don't worry, Risky Sunhat will make it even lighter.

If want a country with worse government than ours look somewhere else, try Sri Lanka. It's a close run thing.

[Kaz]

Can’t argue with that!

[Suff]

Let's wait for the US midterms. That should be a real circus. Every measure there is for the Democrats is heading south. Most heading into record territory.

[Workingman]

Let's wait for the US midterms.

Ley's not. Let's stick to the monocle shops and blue rinse salons of the shires for they are where our new "leader" will be chosen.

[Suff]

How old is the average Conservative Party member?

According to fullfact.

Is the average Conservative Party member really 72 years old? It’s almost impossible to know exactly, but 57 is probably the best guess for now.

So reports that the Conservative party is ageing out of existence may be premature, according to large-scale research done by Queen Mary University and YouGov, reported in the Times.

It also found that all major parties have a similar average age, which is in the fifties.

Now personally I never felt like a blue rinse.... Mainly because I don't fancy my head being blue...

[Workingman]

Also according to the Fullfact article:

The Bow Group told us they "did independent work in 2013 which came up with a figure of 68" and that this "was based upon reports from senior members of the voluntary party and reports from a wide array of local associations." They told us: "That work suggested that the figure of 71.5 may now be plausible especially given the abolition of the Party's youth wing in the interceding period."

So an average of the two would be about 65 and that is more in line with what I see from the membership of the local Conservative party association attending the meetings.

Not that it matters. Whoever they choose will be another Johnsonesque disaster for party and country.