'Blabbermouth Liz Truss could be an even worse prime minister than Boris Johnson'

Don't get too comfortable, says Paul Routledge, because if Foreign Secretary Liz Truss becomes Prime Minister after Boris Johnson, we could have a lot no more problems

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There is an ancient Chinese proverb, usually coined in the last week, for every occasion.

One suits the current situation well:

Just because your cattle drowned in the floods, all your money was stolen, and your wife ran off with your best friend - that doesn't mean your house can't. not burn.

Getting rid of Boris Johnson doesn't mean Conservative Party loyalists can't impose someone even worse on us.

They can, and left to their own devices, they will.

There is no way to prevent their self-important madness.

Party members, who make up less than half of one percent of the electorate but choose a new prime minister for 100% of us, have an unmatched second-tier choice.

I mean, would you get a used car, let alone buy one, from belligerent talkative Liz Truss, the self-styled Foreign Secretary whose ignorance of the stranger n is exceeded only by his determination to invade. This lying politician, darling of the Conservative right, says: "I grew up in Leeds, in the heart of the red wall."

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In fact, she was born in Oxford and grew up in Leeds' leafy, posh suburb of Roundhay when her father became a professor at the city's university.

It was a safe Conservative riding long after he left. It is now owned by Labour's Fabian Hamilton, who says: "The suggestion that Roundhay is an area of ​​Red Wall is frankly laughable and shows how out of touch the Tories are with the North."

The average price of a house in Roundhay is...