So the gamble today for Rishi Sunak and the National Conservative Party cabinet is to take a gamble today in the opposition swing not being quite enough to secure an overall majority for Labour and call a general election in the next few weeks, or bank on being able to catch up with an overtake Labour over the coming year and leave the election to next May.
Of course, because as we know the National Conservative Party is funded straight out of the Kremlin, Rishi will be on the phone to Vladimir as I write asking him to sort out a plan for a progressive escalation of the Ukraine war to spread outside Ukraine’s territorial boundaries to give him the perfect excuse to suspend all further elections for the foreseeable future.
But that won’t be enough to restore Rishi’s image amongst the Tory right, and he’ll be made an offer he can’t refuse to resign and retire with Akshata to Russia-friendly India whilst Sue-Ellen Braverman takes over leadership of the party, purges the parliamentary party of its last remaining centrist elements and abolishes the constituency associations entirely (because as we know members of National Conservative Party associations are in them more for the dining club than for the politics), appointing Jacob Rees-Mogg as her chancellor and Steve Baker as her Home Secretary.
Priti Patel as the most progressive / liberal remaining Tory MP sees the way the wind is blowing and escapes to Uganda claiming asylum there.