The Prime Minister and his gang of bluffers and chancers don’t give two hoots about democracy

GARY Hynds (Write Back, September 5) gives a brave attempt to defend his disintegrating Conservative Government.

He suggests “Remain saboteurs attempt to fabricate a democratic crisis”, but the “Conservative Party will get on with delivering the will of the people”.

This is empty rhetoric to distract us from the internecine warfare within the Tory party. The democratic crisis is not fabricated: it is real.

We have Mogg’s ‘party within a party’, the ERG, declaring that they will not vote for any withdrawal agreement, even if the controversial Irish backstop is removed. They want a no-deal Brexit and will force one upon us.

We have Johnson lying about “no-deal being a million-to-one chance”, how he “will negotiate a really great deal” and how negotiations are going “gangbusters”, while no proposals are being put forward for discussion and there won’t be time to implement the legislation before October 31 anyway, especially now prorogation means we have only about 14 parliamentary days until then.

Leading Conservatives, with great experience and service as ministers of trade and chancellors of the exchequer in governments from Thatcher to May, who have been loyal party members for decades, have been purged.

They recognised Johnson was pursuing a policy which was not in the national interest, so they voted against the whip (something Mogg did more than 100 times and Johnson did against May several times).

Even Jo Johnson, Boris’s brother, has now resigned, resolving his personal conflict “between family and the national interest”.

Boris Johnson now wants a rapid election before his vacuity can be further found out. Of course, we should not have an election now — not until the whole shower have been fully exposed for the chancers they are.