The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles.

First mistake and it’s a huge one!

Today the new PM spoke about integrity, sadly that word can not be used in the same sentence as Suella, or is it Cruella Braverman. Because she is the most cruel, heartless person on this planet.

Apparently, she dreams of sending people on a plane to Rwanda.

Another strange one is ‘Coke man’

Maybe he was rewarding him for telling Boris to go a couple of months ago.

At least there are some fresh faces and at least Coffey has been demoted, I am pressuming that Environmental Polices and Climate Change plans will end up on a shelf until further notice. The NHS however might benefit from that move.

Given the amount of time she spent in number 10, I think some bargaining went on.

And so the powerful Tory machine keeps chugging along, how many more times will it stop and start before it ends up in the junkyard?

A miracle is required and Rishi is no God, not even a Saint. He will be desperate to make some notable moves forward before the next Election, that kind of pressure could lead to more monumental mistakes just like his predecessor.

Turning the economy around is going to take time, a long time and time is the one thing they haven’t got.

But I will not fault him for trying……yet!

The Good.

The first Asian PM showing diversity is alive and well, although I do believe it is by accident rather than design. Out of all three runners, he in many respects seems the most adept.

Hopefully no more Rees-Mogg, Coffey or Boris ever again. The question however remains, has the ERG lost it’s control of the Tories? [Europeon Research Group] They have already declared they will not endorse Sunak and remain a very powerful group.

He may however foster a better relationship with the EU, in particular with France bringing a more successful ending to the NI Protocol problem.

The bad.

He’s still a Tory.

He is very right-wing but probably less so than the ERG. In the past, he has shown his true colours with little empathy for those on Benefits.

He is a very wealthy man but the UK does not benefit from that through taxes. His wife and his fortune are registered elsewhere therefore he is likely to continue to favour the wealthy in his policies.

He has been crowned not by the people or even members of his own Party but by a small clique of MPs, this will not go down well with members and could rebound on him later down the line. Many are already calling for a GE.

The very ugly..

The Tory Party is at war with itself, how much mischief his opponents will get up to remains to be seen but it could all get very ugly and we will pay the price. Even with 2/3 of a majority of his MPs, he does not command overall authority within Parliament. All the other 1/3 have to do to bring him down is to either abstain or vote with Labour and many of his enemies are angry enough to do that.

He has but a narrow line to walk. Like Truss, he will have to keep his backbenchers happy, with no hard Brexit. I say that because despite what Boris said Brexit is not done, there are all those rules to deal with. Rees-Mogg wanted to burn them all with nothing to replace them but many were good and protected us from things like food poisoning, and dirty drinking water through to workers rights. You don’t throw the baby out with the bath water!

To do all this and get the economy onto a better footing whilst always looking over one’s shoulder is no mean task. Is he strong enough has he got the character?

Only time will tell but will there be enough time?

If Sunak is crowned tomorrow don’t for one moment think it’s all over.

There is only one word rippling through the ERG [Boris and Rees-Mogg] camp tonight and that is revenge.

The Tory Party is ideologically split right down the middle with any PM held hostage to the Backbenchers. So even Sunak will not get his own way.

If the Backbenchers think his methods are too harsh they will block him fearing public backlash. He has very little time to show he can fix the economy with the next GE IN 2024.

People do not have short memories as some would suggest, if that had been the case Boris would not have cut and run. He had backers, yes, but he also read the public mood. The public was not for forgetting.

So, what can we do?

I received a very good piece of advice from my son Kevin today, he said don’t look too far forward just hunker down and get through the winter first, then see what happens. He is right, one battle at a time otherwise people will be too overwhelmed.

We can look out for each other even when our government fails us.

A day of reckoning will come for the people in England and also for Scotland if we dare to take a different path. The Devolution settlement is being eroded year after year.

Enough is enough.

If the SNP government won’t do it, then the people must.

We are Sovereign!

If Sunak is crowned tomorrow don’t for one moment think it’s all over.

There is only one word rippling through the ERG [Boris and Rees-Mogg] camp tonight and that is revenge.

The Tory Party is ideologically split right down the middle with any PM held hostage to the Backbenchers. So even Sunak will not get his own way.

If the Backbenchers think his methods are too harsh they will block him fearing public backlash. He has very little time to show he can fix the economy with the next GE IN 2024.

People do not have short memories as some would suggest, if that had been the case Boris would not have cut and run. He had backers, yes, but he also read the public mood. The public was not for forgetting.

So, what can we do?

I received a very good piece of advice from my son Kevin today, he said don’t look too far forward just hunker down and get through the winter first, then see what happens. He is right, one battle at a time otherwise people will be too overwhelmed.

We can look out for each other even when our government fails us.

A day of reckoning will come for the people in England and also for Scotland if we dare to take a different path. The Devolution settlement is being eroded year after year.

Enough is enough.

If the SNP government won’t do it, then the people must.

We are Sovereign!

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I did try and write something about the exit of the Home Secretary but events overtook me!

Believe it or not, these people only days ago passed a Law making it unlawful for you and me to protest peacefully!

And to top it off, those MPs who did not obey the Party line are to be disciplined, but here’s the thing, Truss herself didn’t even vote!

It appears she was locked in a room trying to persuade the Chief Whip and her Deputy to unresign!

This really is jaw-dropping stuff.

More and more MPs are openly telling the PM to go, and probably even more writing letters privately. Her shoogly peg is getting even more precarious by the minute.

Instability will only be removed by a GE, another Tory PM won’t cut it any longer, because the boil burst last night and all their poison spilled out for all to see.

Has reality hit Liz Truss yet?

Would she even see it if it hit her in the face? Or would we just get that blank face again that looks like a rabbit in the headlights?

Today is another day, but what will the day bring?

…..and the bad news this Monday morning is, your lecky bill is not after all safe for 2yrs!

I never liked Mondays but this is a particularly grim one.

That huge promise that our PM kept repeating when defending her mini-budget has gone and the anxiety of millions returns.

The Tory excuse for not announcing a General Election is it would destabilise the Country, does anything feel stabilized to you at this moment as we lurch from one crisis to another?

I think people would welcome the thought that they could change things, it would be that hope of something different that would to some degree settle the anxiety felt by all most everyone including the markets.

Today Jeremy took an axe but he didn’t replace it with anything!

The government have run out of ideas like a ship in a storm with no one at the helm strong enough to stop it from sinking.

This government didn’t just try to ride the storm they created it, and we will pay for it.

All the usual excuses will be tripped out, COVID, Russia etc…

Yes, other countries are suffering due to those things but they have the strength of each other to hold them up. We are on our own, through choice.

It appears standing alone isn’t quite all it was promised to be when we left the European Union. Made worse by the sheer incompetence of this Government.

Brace yourselves for a tough week, other axes will fall and more nerves will jangle.

The axe may be at work but there is no more light entering the forest!

Unfortunately, the Chairman of the 1922 committee is away until Monday afternoon so Truss can relax this weekend. But if I were Jeremy Hunt I wouldn’t bother unpacking, in fact I wouldn’t bother even moving house!

Given the feelings within the Tory party our new PM is very likely to become our past PM very soon and who ever takes over will have their own team which may not include Jeremy. Not through any fault of his own but simply because he has no fiscal experience.

Phone lines between MPs will be red hot this weekend all trying to save their jobs as MPs, anything but a GE will be the cry. There will however be one pretty soon as the red wall gets rebuilt.

I’m not a fan of Starmer’s but he has some great women in his team and we are well past the point of saying anything is better than what we have just now.

We need sweeping changes, a different kind of politics. Whether Labour can do that I don’t know but they certainly can’t be any worse. An economy can only grow if people have money to put back into it.

Spending priorities need to change and less privatisation. The myth that privatisation brings competition has been exposed. All that happens is companies collude to secretly gain an advantage, ensuring high returns for themselves and high prices for us.

No, I am not a Labour supporter but I am a Socialist at heart!

Not one U-turn today but two.

First, she sacks her Chancellor for carrying out her policies whom she backed 100%, then she changes her tax policies!

This is not a good time to be a loyal Tory supporter because loyalty can make you look a bit stupid, a bit like Ross who has publicly backed every U-turn so far. You have to wonder what exactly he stands for apart from crawling after his Tory masters. A man who has no opinion of his own is no man at all let alone a Leader.

We have now had 6 Chancellors in 8yrs! Whatever happened to ‘strong and stable’?

So, back into Cabinet comes Jeremy, in from the cold.

Previously Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs also Secretary of State for Health and Social Care also Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics and Sport.

Removed from all if my memory serves me right, but at least he has Cabinet experience.

More importantly, he has made his new boss ditch her Corporation Tax Policy. Part of his deal no doubt!

We have a PM who refuses to take personal responsibility and will do anything to hang on to her job. She is now owned by her Backbenchers who commands little or no authority of her own.

An engine running on one cylinder!

Also very telling that she is to make a statement again after the Markets have closed. Nothing like hoping nerves will settle over the weekend, didn’t work last time!

She may have stabilised markets momentarily but not her own position.

A weekend is a hell of a long time in Politics!

So, things are so bad that we have Tory MPs coming out of the 1922 committee meeting saying “I’m going to get drunk” and “ we are going to destroy the Country, it would be better to have a General Election than this”

Me thinks the Tory Party is up the creek without a paddle!

How on earth did it ever come to this?

Incompetence on a grand scale is the most polite way to put it, although I would dearly like to say something else!

Incompetence in the way Brexit was handled, all those promises and the posturing of ‘we hold all the cards’ only to find out we didn’t hold any.

The incompetence of the NI PROTOCOL which was signed with much glee and pomp but never read by the signatory in No10!

The incompetent way COVID was handled fiscally, all those contracts handed out with no checks, millions upon millions wasted. All those needless deaths because the then PM didn’t even take the threat seriously in the beginning.

The incompetence of previous PMs in relying on one country to meet our energy needs and no plans to store any just in case the worst happens. Absolute faith in a tyrant!

The incompetence of the new PM who threw the economy over a cliff taking the livelihoods of so many with it.

So another rebellion within the Tory party seems to be on the cards as the markets continue to fall again.

How much more can people take, how much further can this country fall?

And you wonder why they won’t let Scotland go, all this borrowing on the back of Scottish oil. But it takes years to get that kind of gold out, in the meantime, we are in freefall.

They say Truss has no vision, she does, it’s called tunnel vision!

There is none so dangerous as the person who thinks only they have the answer.

There are few people left in Scotland who you could consider to be true legends, sadly one of them has died today.

Ian Hamilton was one of those and a true gentleman. He was the only survivor of the infamous four who nicked the Stone of Destiny and brought it back to Scotland.

Ian spent his last years living in North Connel in beautiful Argyll, he remained dedicated and vocal to the cause of Independence right to the end with a sharp mind and wit to match.

Where are the Ians of today?

Today we hear many voices but little action when it comes to Independence and many of those voices are at odds with each other.

Never before have I seen such friction between YES supporters, they act like two Waring football team supporters. The fight for Independence is not a game. It is not NS v AS, it is Scotland v Westminster and we will lose if we can’t work together.

We can sort the differences out afterwards, the stakes are too high to be squabbling with each other.

The PM said yesterday she will block a referendum even if the Courts allow it, so it’s game on folks against Westminster not each other!

Whatever we may think about other parties our thoughts should remain our own. Now is not the time for childish name-calling or playground games.

There is a big event in Glasgow this weekend, it would be good to see support from all parties acting as adults.

Maybe that’s too big an ask but without it Independence will be lost. At this particular juncture in time Independence is more important than Party Politics.

Let the new Ian Hamiltons stand tall in memory of that great Scotsman.