So from where did young Master Stephen Crabb MP suddenly appear? This young, Welsh whipper-snapper who has, apparently, been lurking in the Tory undergrowth for some time, has now suddenly started jumping up and down shouting 'Me! Me! Me!' in a bid to be considered for the leadership of the Tory party and, given the current circs, to be prime minister. To which I can only reply in my immaculate Welsh, "Nid yw eto" ('Not yet').
Mind you, he has an interesting background, about as far removed from your average Tory MP as you can get. Like me, he was brought up by a single mum but unlike me he was in dire poverty for much of his childhood. Despite everything he managed to gain a university place but unfortunately it was SoD's old alma mater, Bristol University where he studied politics - yeeees, quite! (SoD, on the other hand, studied beer and birds with occasional computer science thrown in!) Anyway, in an otherwise undistinguished political career - so far! - Master Crabb voted against gay marriage (hurrah!) but for 'Remain' (boo!)
So, an interestin' fella', young Crabb, and I suspect that in the future he will either fly to great heights - or crash and burn! Now is definitely not the time for him to become prime minister but it was a clever and ambitious ploy to throw his hat in the ring. In the meantime, I can only offer him one word of advice - buy a razor and use it! No-one trusts a fella' with a beard, particularly a scruffy, moth-eaten effort like his.
As you same, he needs more time to ripen. He could be ready in about five years time, just as after years of tedious arguments, we decide to stay in the EU!
Posted by: backofanenvelope | Thursday, 30 June 2016 at 09:02
Never had a proper job himself. Only pol roles and "Marketing Consultant" - yes, quite.
Yet no doubt, he will have the psychotic self belief that a zero track record in having done anything where the output exceeded the input is no obstruction to him being given monopoly control over the means of production and distribution of some or all of Blighty's economy.
Unless he is that one decade in every 2500 years pol, who, like Maggie and Ronnie, says "We're shit, and we know we are".
I'm not a gambling man, but ...
SoD
Posted by: Loz | Thursday, 30 June 2016 at 09:25
Don't fret, BOE, the EU will probably break up long before that.
Posted by: David Duff | Thursday, 30 June 2016 at 10:27
Crabb? He's just a nipper!
(I'll get my coat...)
Posted by: Whyaxye | Thursday, 30 June 2016 at 11:18