- On the one hand we have Mr Hunt who spent years quietly and determinedly undermining the NHS with ideologically driven re-organisations and privatisations on the other hand we have Mr Johnson noisily and incompetently saying things that have resulted in a British citizen spending years extra in an Iranian prison.
- Mr Hunt says he wants to restrict abortions so that they are only available to women in the first 8 weeks leaving them unable to make their own decisions about what to do if an early test shows potential abnormalities. Mr Johnson has a different attitude to women. He has focused on womanising and then abandoning children he’d sired
- Mr Hunt wants to bring back fox hunting for slaughter. Or did for 24 hours, before he discovered it was unpopular even with Tory party members. Mr Johnson is every bit as inconsistent. He wrote one article explaining why he supported staying the in the EU and another explaining why we had to leave. Before backing the option that he thought would get him the top job.
- Mr Hunt fails to declare that he owns 7 homes because they slipped his mind. Mr Johnson fails to leave someone else’s home when she yells “Get Out” at him and accuses him of not caring about other people’s property.
- Mr Johnson shames the nation by talking about Picanninies with watermelon smiles. Mr Hunt shames the nation by selling arms to Saudi Arabia to kill innocent people in Yemen whilst they are busy setting up religious extremist schools in Sri Lanka than fuel the hate that ends with church massacres. Sorry that is unfair. I should have said that both of them sold arms to that particular child murdering regime.
- Mr Johnson wants to cut taxes for the richest ten per cent of society who are the only people who have not suffered average income cuts during the ten years of austerity inflicted on us by bankers. Most of whom are now comfortably back in the top ten per cent of earners thanks to bailouts from government. Mr Hunt wants to do exactly the same thing. Curiously the electorate of the Conservative Party consists mainly of voters who earn in the top 10 per cent.
- Mr Johnson is daft enough to promise he will force the UK out of the EU regardless of whether there is any deal and regardless of the damage of reverting to bare minimum WTO rules that will hugely damage our economy. Mr Hunt is daft enough to promise exactly the same thing. Both promise they can renegotiate in 8 weeks something that Theresa May couldn’t achieve in two years and which they have been clearly told will never be on offer from the EU. Both are now in the position that they will either have to begin work by breaking a core promise or wreck the UK economy for a generation.
- Mr Hunt is itching to sign a new trade deal with the US. Mr Johnson is even keener on signing it. Mr Trump will never let a weak and desperate UK sign such a deal without exposing us to US farming standards. Mr Trump will never sign such a deal without placing us under the jurisdiction of an international court that will instruct the UK to open all its public services to open competition. Welcome to complete loss of sovereignty. Out of the EU bloc where we just had elections and have some control. Into the US bloc where we’ll be bullied by highly paid US corporate lawyers. Onto WTO rules. An organisation that has never held elections and where we don’t control the rules in any meaningful way.
- Mr Johnson says he wants to stop the nanny state placing taxes on obesity. He’s obviously not looked at his own body lately or else he would be rather clearer about the potential damage. Mr Hunt will put Mr Rees Mogg into our cabinet so that he can tells us all about the dangers of the nanny state whilst employing one to change the nappies of his six children – something he has never done himself.
- Mr Johnson comes from a deeply privileged background that has equipped him with an utterly over blown view about his own talents. Mr Hunt is one of the richest people in a government of very rich people. Neither has the remotest understanding of life in a poor community in a deprived region.
- Neither Mr Johnson nor Mr Hunt have said anything remotely constructive about climate change, over use of plastics or intensive agriculture. Oh sorry, I’m mistaken. Mr Johnson promised to lay down in front of the diggers if they started work on a new runway at Heathrow. Before he got elected in Uxbridge which is on the flightpath. Then he got elected and quietly forgot what he had said.
Still never mind. You are not going to be asked to make it. The decision about who becomes our next Prime Minister gets made by what is claimed to now be 160,000 Conservative Party members. In case you thought that was a worryingly narrow minded electorate who should never be allowed to make such an important choice for the rest of the country think again. That isn’t the worst of it. Aron Banks claims to have signed up at least 20,000 far right infiltrators who will have the right to vote and many of those in the Conservative Party who have two homes have been sent two ballot papers.
Democracy and sovereignty are clearly safe in their hands and we are clearly heading for the best possible choice of Prime Minister in the best possible of worlds.