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You can see it can\u2019t you – at the next G20, the imposing trio of Putin, Xi Jinping and Trump, grim-faced, shoulder to shoulder for the official photo. And, projecting Britain\u2019s power in the world\u2026 cheeky little Wes Streeting grinning at the back. Wes Streeting, possibly the only gay man in Britain with absolutely no dress sense. Wes Streeting a man who looks as comfortable in a suit as a teenager at his first job interview. Wes Streeting a man who crows about his brilliant steering of the NHS like the captain of a sinking ocean liner bragging \u201clook on the brightside lads, we\u2019re taking a lot longer to sink than the Titanic.\u201d<\/p>\n
And Wes Streeting the man poised to facilitate a cataclysmic hard left takeover of Britain, after his resignation this lunchtime seems sure to trigger a leadership contest. Fortunately you don\u2019t have to imagine him at the G20 because little Wes is highly unlikely to win that leadership contest.<\/p>\n
Read more: Furious Sky News viewers ‘switch off’ after car crash Jeremy Corbyn interview <\/a><\/p>\n Read more: Readers debate if Wes Streeting be a better PM than Keir Starmer – vote now <\/a><\/p>\n Despite what other pundits might tell you, trying to second guess these things is as precise and scientific an endeavour as backing the winner at today\u2019s 3.30 at York (See The Fire at 5\/4 if you ask me\u2026 but don\u2019t blame me if it doesn\u2019t come in!). And this is the reason I went with \u201chighly unlikely to\u201d rather than \u201cdefinitely won’t\u201d.<\/p>\n But the clever money is on Wes ending up as the Starmer government\u2019s Sir Anthony Meyer – the man who came from nowheresville to be the first \u2018stalking horse\u2019 to Margaret Thatcher before promptly returning to nowheresville as Michael Heseltine, Major and Douglas Hurd stepped up to stab their leader in the back.<\/p>\n If this thing does go to a race I\u2019m afraid the winner is likely to be far, far more left wing and cryptocommunist than nice, centrist little social democrat Wes.<\/p>\n Is that what you voted for?<\/p>\n But that, in this travesty of a democracy in which we live, is what we get, time and time again.<\/p>\n Vote for Tony Blair – get Gordon Brown, vote for David Cameron – get Theresa May, vote for Theresa May – get Boris Johnson<\/a>, vote for Boris Johnson – get Rishi Sunak<\/a>\u2026 it\u2019s quite shocking isn\u2019t it? When you see the list.<\/p>\n We didn\u2019t vote for any of those people in power over us.<\/p>\n And yet we allow them to stroll into the highest office in the land after a ballot of a handful of people. A portion of the Labour Party\u2019s 200,000 members – the ones who can be bothered voting – will decide Britain\u2019s leader. They will be, by definition, avowed left wingers. And some of them will be Britain-hating nut-jobs.<\/p>\n And if that\u2019s democracy I\u2019m a banana.<\/p>\n Of course political anoraks will say \u201cyou vote for the party not the person\u201d. But we all know that\u2019s cobblers – and so do they.<\/p>\n Thatcher, Blair, Johnson .. we voted for them, not their party\u2019s policy on shellfish regulations or glyphosate use.<\/p>\n And so, without a murmur, if this goes the way it looks likely, we are about to end up with a Union-approved (and Union kowtowing) hard left Prime Minister.<\/p>\n Angela Rayner<\/a>, Ed Miliband or Andy Burnham – people who wouldn\u2019t have a cat in hell\u2019s chance in a general election. The Unions, which hold the financial whip over Labour, of course despise Wes, which is why his No10 goose is pretty much cooked.<\/p>\n And talking of Ange by the way, isn\u2019t the real mystery of Rayner\u2019s \u201ctax-efficiencies\u201d not that a woman who would be leader of this country didn\u2019t know where she lived, it was how the hell she got her hands on 40 grand to pay back HMRC<\/a>.<\/p>\n Could you fish out \u00a340,000 from down the back of the sofa? No, me neither.<\/p>\n And yet Ange, the arch-socialist and northern working-class hero (think you\u2019ll find that position\u2019s already taken love), a woman who wants us to believe grew up sparking her clogs on the cobbled streets of Stockport surrounded by Lowryesque figures dolefully making their way t\u2019mill\u2026 can seemingly stump up 40k without missing a beat.<\/p>\n She\u2019s a socialist fraud isn\u2019t she?<\/p>\n Just for clarity almost half of UK adults have little or no savings.<\/p>\n So, to most of them Rayner sits perfectly comfortably alongside, say, Nigel Farage<\/a> under the heading \u201crich people\u201d.<\/p>\n Our Ange has done very nicely out of the \u2018capitalist\u2019 system she professes to hate, the one she is now trying to destroy for everyone else.<\/p>\n