Beauty contest is a horror show

Madam, – The Tory beauty pageant – or more accurately horror show – to replace Prime Minister Theresa May is a grotesque spectacle.

A collection of nonentities and far-right oddballs.

All of them supporters of entrenched privilege, mass-surveillance, privatisation, cronyism, and endless war.

No amount of media fawning can dispel the disgusting reek that pervades this Tory

coronation. This contest will be a spectacle of debasement and political filth.

No new Tory leader will be able to resolve the Brexit paradox.

With the installation of Boris Johnson and a hard Brexit there is a feeling that the UK is on a path to economic suicide.

The UK is undergoing economic and social decline.

The Tory Party represents corruption, greed, ruthless militarism and financial parasitism.

The Tory contest in general and Boris

Johnson’s campaign in particular will be a mixture of mudslinging, lies, canned rhetoric, phoney promises, thinly veiled racism, and a call for more war.

Boris Johnson is an embarrassing, ridiculously absurd buffoon and a blathering popinjay.

It says much to the debasement of the Tories that this blustering jester is now poised to be their leader.

The new Tory prime minister will continue with policies that increase homelessness, poverty, benefit

sanctions,debt, rent, bankruptcies, wealth of the rich, the trade gap, and bankers bonuses. Alan Hinnrichs. 2 Gillespie Terrace, Dundee.