From , by Bachchoo Imagine, for a moment, that the has just struck the iceberg, and icy waters are flooding in through the breach. Panic on the decks, a scramble for the lifeboats. As darkness descends, the doomed wonder who is to blame.
Now imagine the moments while the sinking ship is still not completely submerged. There’s still activity among those left on deck. No, the activity is not dedicated to finding materials that could help the desperate cling on to life as they float in the waters.
Some of it is, of course, dedicated to whistling tunes as all hope dies. And yet, incredible though this may sound, gentle reader, the main activity among the survivors on the doomed deck is -- you won’t guess -- electing a new captain, now that the old one, under whose watch the ship struck the iceberg, has clambered onto a lifeboat and is rowing towards California. There were, incredibly, five contenders who put themselves forward for this captaincy.
Here endeth the analogy! Which, of course, began with the wipe-out of the Tory Party at the July election, when they won 121 seats as opposed to the Labour Party’s 412. So Hedgie Sunak, who led the Tories into this historic debacle, waits till a new leader is elected and then goes. As I write, three of the contenders to lead the Tory Party have been eliminated through a process in which Tory MPs vote for their favoured candidate in successive ballots, the least favoured contender being out of the contest after each round.
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