Why bother to elect a Tory PM Candidate?

Why bother to elect a Tory PM Candidate?

In no imaginable way will the Tories be needing a PM candidate any time soon.

What the party needs more than anything at the present time is someone who can organise the unruly and divided crowd over the next four and a half years. Probably someone with political and party experience.

It doesn't need to be a person with huge public charisma.

There is not going to be an election any time soon. It would seem certain that Keir Starmer is unlikely ever to call an early election as long at least as he is at the top of the Labour food chain and getting free meals at No. 10

In Germany for example it is possible to have a party leader (CDU) who is not premier (Kanzler) candidate and to decide on the top dog for the job much closer to any boding election.

Leaving the decision as to who the grassroots members may elect or eventually, hopefully from the party stand point, the next premier as late as possible means that it may be possible to select a candidate who is nearer to the aspirations of the population at the time of the election.

At the moment it seems that migration and winter fuel are at the forefront of popular gripe and grievance but who can be sure that these will be the two main topics in approximately four years, when a general election campaign might well start.

Maybe Starmer will do a 180° turn - not unlikely based on his own and his minster colleagues track record - and opt for the Rwanda option because all our European "friends" are going down this road and we want to be good buddies with Ursula.

That might, at least for a short time take most of the wind out of the sails of the anti-immigration lobby.

Winter fuel removal payments in four years. Who will remember that.

So Tories, get your act together with somebody who can run the party and not just make nice pledges about immigration. What they need is a chairman and not a public figurehead.

The whole idea opens completely new options. The chairman doesn't necessarily need to be a member of parliament or the Commons. Could be a member of the House of Lords (plenty of them knocking about with nothing to do). In fact a good brain from Industry might be ideal as he would not be faced with jealous party friends

One person that might well fit the office could be Jacob Rees-Mogg who no longer has a seat, highly intelligent, was well regarded but by his accent alone unlikely to be voted as PM by the public. We need to recognise the fact that a general election in the UK is very much a personifeid election and not just about "party".