Tories have wrecked life and soul of party
ICAN hardly find the words to describe a situation whereby a political party wins power at Westminster with an 80-seat majority, then gets rid of the man who won it following a series of shambles, then at a time when there is a war in Europe and a financial crisis at home paralyses policy for months with a leadership election.Then, after another shambles, mutinies against the next prime minister and reverses the very policies on which the party chose her, including one which benefits the entire working population and for which the Opposition had been instructed to vote. To describe the current Conservative Party as lemmings would be an insult to rodents.
I do not know whether Liz Truss will survive or not but for a certainty we no longer have a Conservative Party.
Instead we have two parties committed to high tax and high spend. In short two very similar parties, one pale pink and one red. Conservatives believe in low taxes. The Conservative parliamentary party does not. Conservatives believe in promoting investment: the Conservative Chancellor believes in high corporation tax to deter it. Conservatives believe in incentives to enterprise and encouraging wealth. At Westminster they believe in penalising both.
The Conservative Party used to be a disciplined political fighting machine, now it is a mutinous rabble which believes that defenestrating its general is the answer to every problem and while on the subject of generals, Conservatives believe in Nato and strong defence but this omnishambles of an administration is now cuddling up to the European Defence Union, while pretending it isn’t. Conservatives believe in the Union but Northern Ireland has been comprehensively betrayed. Conservatives believe in free speech but the woke cancellation agenda threatens high and low alike.
The entire parliamentary party is ungovernable. My own MP went on TV to urge the PM effectively to give in to the hysteria.
For the first time in 54 years as a voting adult I have no idea what I shall do at the next general election now that there is no Tory agenda on offer.