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Can they really be this incompetent?
Yes. Sunak only ever looked competent in the context of the other freaks who were all that was left (and willing to serve) after Johnson's coup. He had to present himself as more reasonable than Liz Truss after replacing her, but his politics and attitude have always been pretty close to hers.
Human beings (and the press in particular) have this tendency to show respect to people who achieve positions in a hierarchy no matter how unsuitable they are. Jacob Rees Mogg was an eccentric fringe politician till Johnson gave him a job, suddenly he was an elder statesman of the Tory party; so it goes. But the decades-long fight over Europe in the Tory party only left the weirdo freaks standing. They've always been weirdo freaks and they're in charge.
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I'm not especially conspiracy minded, but it's hard not to look at the level of continuous fuck ups and wonder if there is a cohort within the Conservative Party that is looking for a monumental defeat to knock down and build back in one guise or another.
Can they really be this incompetent? I'd usually say yes, but it's like the whole thing is being run by a pissed Nicola Murray.