Sunak is losing because he is Woke

You do not need anything else to explain his collapse

Simon Clarke was right. Nadine Dorries was right. Andrea Jenkyns was right. J’accuse was right. Rishi Sunak is not a good politician, removing Boris was a catastrophic error when viewed purely through the lens of enlightened self interest. With that mistake made, the best bet that the Conservative MPs had was to remove him months ago and replace him with someone who could unite the Right and take the fight to the satanic solicitor and his Gray goat.

Alas, their dithering has cost us all. They accepted the Forsythian framing that a Houchen Victory was an endorsement from the Great British Public for Sunakism - and waited too long to put those letters in. We are now faced with the inevitability of ten years of a ‘changed Labour party’ fattening up the blob and persecuting political enemies.

Unwinding this rot once it has had time to set in will be extremely difficult. In 2034, the power of the Westminster executive will be trifling; you will have to contend with all of the legacy Blairite institutions (like the Supreme Court) alongside a ‘beefed-up’ OBR, Great British Rail etc, which will be held firmly in place by a motley anti-democratic coalition of ‘the Markets’, Trade Unions and the ‘Law’. You will face the threat of economic depression, strikes and legal challenges the second you attempt to unwind anything.

To achieve any goal other than sustained decline in living standards, a new government will have to achieve something akin to Brexit 2.0 - except those who hold unaccountable power will not be Eurocrats in Brussels and Strasbourg but the enemy within. It would have been easier to simply restore the Law Lords and do a ‘bonfire of the quangos’ in 2010 - alas, Cameron hobbled us with an even stronger OFCOM and NHSE while letting devolution run riot.

Getting the public clamouring for an internal revolution will take time. While voters are sympathetic to a ‘bonfire of the quangos’ (usually on the grounds of cost) there is also a cross-political attitude that politicians just ‘mess things up’. Remember that Blair’s use of special advisors was extremely unpopular - Cameron played to this anti-political prejudice (special advisors are needed to control ‘impartial’ civil servants) after 2010.