Thread by @AndrewPRLevi

The problem we face is that the choice seems binary.

Incompetent vandals “running” the UK. Trashing its security, prosperity & well-being, with epic cluelessness.

Or an organised gang, doing the same, efficiently - for its narrow group advantage.

Is there a third way?

A🧵/1.

By now, there’s no safe way out.

Unless the party system is overridden. For the greater good.

The solution must happen fast. The scale of the damage being inflicted is great, & cumulative. The external political & security environment is deteriorating.

Time is short. /2.

That, of course means, Boris Johnson must go. And soon.

But no past or present member of the Johnson cabinet is acceptable as a replacement. Or as a cabinet minister. /3.

Nearly all would make things much worse. None, better.

Through arrogant ignorance of the world around them, “libertarian” derangement, sociopathy, or numerous other related afflictions.

The same applies to most, but not all, of the current Conservative Parliamentary Party. /4.

In the UK national interest, the choice of replacement leader of the Conservative Party, & the question of who they might imagine should be in the cabinet they dream of leading, need to be decoupled from the future governance of the country. /5.

The UK cannot any longer afford to let the choices made by a dangerous, unelected, dramatically skewed party membership, representing less than 0.5% of the electorate, decide who’s in charge of 67 million people, a $3 trillion economy & nuclear weapons. /6.

To be able urgently & effectively to start repairing the nightmarish damage inflicted on the country in the last years, the best - & only available - course is for MPs from all sides of the Commons to unite. /7.

Unite to form a competent, patriotic parliamentary majority.

Unite to exclude extremist wreckers.

Unite to rebuild the UK’s position in Europe & the Euro-Atlantic area, the bedrock of our security & prosperity in the modern world, along with our global credibility. /8.

Unite to ensure the full force of justice, without fear or favour, is appropriately applied to all.

Unite to deliver stability, & reassurance that those who attack us, from within or without, will be stopped - along with the last years’ chaotic degradation of our country. /9.

That requires Keir Starmer & his whole parliamentary team to step up.

It requires a backbench Conservative to take a lead, & mobilise several dozen colleagues to cross the floor.

It requires other opposition parties to join in. For the good of the whole of GB & NI. /10.

And it requires a government formed from that coalition to take radical action, to end media abuses; reverse the catastrophically ill-judged policies hammering the UK economy, real household incomes, public health & security; & implement fundamental constitutional reform. /11.

It’s no good complaining all that’s unrealistic.

It can’t be allowed to be. And it doesn’t have to be. MPs are humans with agency. So are we.

Remember, the alternative is to be led by malevolent buffoons. Or malevolent gangsters.

Bring Britain back. /12. End