The Twitter comments on last night’s Tory leadership debate on Channel Four were more interesting (if less respectful) than the debate itself. But there were a few things we can scrape from it.
- If there is a more irritating man in the world than Michael Gove, he should maybe go into a dark room with a bottle of whiskey and a revolver. Gove is the kind of child-man that brings out the worst in people: smart-arse, quick-talking, nervy and sour-pussed. I gather he has a wife. She has my sympathies.
- Dominic Raab doesn’t looks and sounds as wooden as a very thick plank.
- Jeremy Bunt – sorry, I mean Hunt – came to the debate fresh on his denunciation of Jeremy Corbyn as “pathetic” when he asked for more evidence that Iran was responsible for the blaze on those ships. In the debate said nothing that changed his status as a phoney chancer.
- Sajid Javid reminded us yet again of his humble origins. I can’t remember anything else he said.
- Rory Stewart looked and sounded different from the other four, for a number of reasons. While they were talking earnestly he smiled and nodded to people in the audience, thus undermining what they said. He used the key word of the night – ‘machismo’ – to describe the other chest-beating contestants. He has said he’d accept that the EU has finished negotiating and try to go on from there. The audience clearly liked him – no matter what he said, they applauded warmly.
So in general, Stewart was the pick of a very bad bunch. If he makes the final two and Boris Johnson is his opponent, it’s going to be the classic David vs Goliath.
But.
One problem.
Stewart cheerfully conceded he was a unionist and that he’d do all in his power to make sure the United Kingdom stayed together. Since like most self-respecting people I think the exact opposite, Rory and I are calling off the wedding banns.
Which leaves Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson.
FFS.
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