In reply to wercat:
> watching Parliament live yesterday evening it was starkly shown I think what a silly choice the Conservative party members made. The precision of Jeremy Hunt's contributions contrasts with the ambiguous and unclear messages from No 10 and its advisors
I know what you mean but in reality if Hunt had won the leadership I don't believe they'd be sitting on an 80 seat majority.
For all his faults Boris is unique, he may be Marmite but he's also the Heineken politican. I don't believe any other leader could have taken them from their worst ever election result in their c.200 year existence (European election, 5th place, 9%) to an 80 seat majority in 7 months.
In that sense, the party members choice was anything but silly.