Are we witnessing the death knells of the Conservative Party? The polls would suggest so, the ineptitude of the last government and its current leadership would suggest so. If not the end of the Party it heralds a need for a very real rethink. I think the rot began with their blind adoration of the lying buffoon Johnson. Whilst he used his undoubted charisma to gain power, is lying incompetence was plain for all to see. Then we had Truss – voted in by geriatric members of the party – her extreme ideology was rejected; not by the public but by the financial institutions of the City of London! Sunak was seen temporarily as a safe pair of hands with virtually no charisma and only a massive bank balance to keep rich Tories happy. Then – if anyone was seen to be out of their depth in a puddle it is Kemi! Her ideology is to be anti-labour and she is freaked out by Reform and Farage. Actaully I have had a rethink – Thatcher was the perpetrator in the crime of undermining the basic values of our country.
So the party has neither rushed, nor crept into its present stasis, rather it has ambled along quite happily until it found itself in an alleyway with Farage and Tice and the ditherer. I am left wing with a very green patina (moss is growing on my car with a tinge of algae across the paintwork!), but …. I am trying not to choke here – Labour needs a moderate opposition that has its basis in fiscal policy and social conservatism.
The tories made much about raising the minimum wage and were not all racist misogynist basards and their obedient wives! Just as Labour are aware of the need to promote business and investment, the Conservative Party were aware of the need to maintain wages and social welfare. This status quo ended with Brexit which basically fucked the UK in so many ways. The right wing realised that there was a future in promoting ideologically and financially unsound policies if they were popular – the gutter press went along with this (as did the BBC). No longer did there have to be a balance between labour and capital – just scream about some populist crap and the voters would fall for it. Farage is to my mind an abominal human being, like Jeremy Clarkson he is very wealthy but appeals to the angry nature of the white geriatric population of the uk, and the angry youth (who have the right to be angry – even if they do not know the reason!).
I think I can handle extremism from political parties if we have Proportional Representation, but if Farage can mobilise financial heft like Trump, then if the Shit Media come into support and the BBC maintains its crap policy of a maintenance of balance, the country is doomed to unrest.