Iacob locutus est, sed causa nondum finita est.

 

Jacob’s bubolic comments are always of interest. Notwithstanding, his remarks are somewhat surprisingly, to some degree, reminiscent of floccinaucinihilipilification. Under the present electoral system, (even) a (tactical) vote for Reform could mean letting Labour in through the backdoor! After all, Jacob himself lost his seat at the last election because of Reform, yet he seems willing, indeed eager, to embrace a coalition government with N. Farage which implies a high degree of personal doubt about an achievable Conservative majority. He attacks, by name, R. Sunak, T. May and D. Cameron only, ignoring B. Johnson and L. Truss altogether who also inflicted a lot of pain both on country and their own party, not to mention 'yours truly!' His center-right tribal loyalty seems to be gravitating to Reform! Jacob agrees with R. J.’s defection speech yet wants to be loyal to K. Badenoch, whose decision to expel R. Jenrick he did not initially trust implicitly, suspending his judgement to begin with. That does not imply full confidence in the present Tory leader! I note that “Jenrick defects - and everyone wins”. How so? The Conservative party lost a man of intellect and integrity, and the Reform party admitted a Judas, depending on one’s perspective. At any rate, at the next election all that has been said will be insignificant. So much for my ramblings! It will teach me humility – which I am still struggling with at the moment!