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Jacob Rees Mogg is too patrician and too grand an English eccentric to run the UK and the last thing we need with all our difficult problems is another Old Etonian.

To beat Jeremy Corbyn and his bought and paid for Red Guards we need someone who can connect with ordinary people, street fight and give no quarter.

The country is in danger and deep trouble, so urbane smoothness has to give way to the ruthlessness that comes with having come up the hard way and a background that can connect with the young. Kwasi Kwarteng fits the bill and is telegenic and capable with youth appeal and sharpness.

The present cabinet sound and look old, and Rees Mogg, although very articulate, is not the man for close quarters political brutality of the kind that will be needed to put the BBC, ITV,Channel 4 and NHS and local authority middle managers to the sword.

He would want to keep his long aristocratic hands Pontius Pilate clean and leave the butchery to others. As Dr Alf will remember not all change is welcomed, not every middle manager is willing to relinquish his/her position. What has to be done does not require consensus, endless urbane discussion or cross party working, it is kill the monster time before it gets too big and kills of the Conservative Party and bankrupts the country.

The “Prince” to quote Machiavelli must live in the country he has conquered, inflict all his cruelties at once, and then bestow benefits one at a time so that they are the more appreciated. Neutralizing Momentum, bringing in legislation to outlaw strikes in essential public services, firing the Southern train drivers and calling up retired military personnel to apply a state of emergency and break General Strikes is not the province of Rees Mogg.

He has other uses around consensus building after all the “enemies within” are dealt with.

John Gelmini



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The “default option” of May remaining is not an option at all because the longer she remains the worse the situation with the EU will get and the more unpopular the Conservatives will become.

The Conservatives need to mobilise the 1922 Committee and advance someone black and telegenic, like Kwazi Kwarteng, the “Big Beasts” all have the whiff of death about them and are all frankly past it and not trusted to boot.

There is no need for another election but there is a need for a new leader, the selloff of Channel 4 which is very left wing and the privatisation of the BBC. They both need to be neutralised by taking them out of the equation and ensuring that they cannot keep setting the agenda.

With a new Prime Minister, who would appeal to the young, Jeremy Corbyn would find it hard to compete with him and many of his followers would find the “Uncle Tom” label rather difficult to pin on that new Prime Minister.

The shadowy far left members of Momentum that Dr Alf frets about and Len McClusky’s trade unionists would then be torn between their own ideology and the new reality of a young ethnic minority, educated Prime Minister who can take them on and never had a silver spoon in his mouth.

John Gelmini