Either way this is the end of the Conservative Party, isn't it? They haven't been "conservative" since Brexit.
Their policies are so mad that the people attracted by said policies to join/stay party members can't be trusted to choose their leader.. and their MPs aren't much better.
Their two best choices to get us through the economic crisis they have created appear to be the guy they just got rid of six weeks ago who took a lot of of holidays, had a lot of parties, had babies, got married, wrote a book, had an extensive dressing up box, had no scruples about using another country's misfortunes as political cover, didn't bother reading what was in his red box or going to COBRA meetings about one of the biggest threats the world has ever known, that ordinary people on Mumsnet watched coming for months and lied to everybody, all the time, every day.
Or the guy who cost the country billions by not doing his job properly when he was in charge of the economy before.
Nothing says "we're the party to see you through this economic crisis" like being the party who caused this economic crisis.
Saying, "we've been in charge for 12 years and the economy's now in such a mess we're going to make public services even worse, but it's not our fault" isn't much of a vote winner is it?
They're finished.
They won't even be "the opposition" next time.
Now it's just a case of how much lower they drag our country before we get rid of them.