Who knew that when Rishi Sunak insisted he 'had a plan' it was to conduct the most inept political campaign in British electoral history? Shortly after his disastrous first week he left the D-Day commemoration early (for no discernible reason) and was forced to engage in a grovelling (sort of) apology. Such is the state of the importance of this week's celebrations – it's likely to be the last for many surviving veterans – and in a country still locked into a state of Spitfire Nationalism hauntology for the Second World War – this was political suicide. The British press didn't indulge in the sort of maniacal coverage meted out to Michael Foot or Jeremy Corbyn around the Cenotaph, but Sunak was skewered by his or his teams stupidity.
Sunak's short-lived reign was about to result in electoral oblivion – but now his, and his parties demise will be even more egregious as they burn in the next few weeks. Polling now shows the clear possibility of the Conservative vote collapsing below 15% and beneath the Liberal Democrats. Things are looking no less bleak for his colleague north of the border, Douglas Ross.
As Neil Mackay writes in the Herald: "The moral vacuum that is Douglas Ross has fashioned his own political ruin with the sickbed sacking of a man he dares call a 'friend'. His behaviour has always been deplorable, but now he's without honour. God knows how he can look at himself in the mirror.
" Sunak is a man-child, a rich boy with no discernible hinterland and precio.
