I warned these Tories have no heart or soul... now do you believe me?

WELL, now you know I was right. The Conservative Party is not just drenched in political correctness, useless at practical matters from law and crime to schools and transport and led by ignorant ninnies who are no better than they ought to be. It is also a ferocious raiser of taxes and spendthrift with your money.

It is in fact New Labour, Blairism but without the Blair creature.

It even resorts to wild pseudopopular policy initiatives, such as the latest pretence at getting tough with illegal migration on the high seas, to try to distract your attention from what it is really up to, namely gobbling up more of your income than at any time in modern history.

Nobody will stop it because the ‘opposition’ is made up of people who are more or less exactly the same, except that some of Keir Starmer’s lot understand the ultimate point of all this, which I promise you is not very nice.

The Tories just do it because it worked for Blair. So they think it is popular and will keep them in office. And if anyone complains, brutal party discipline, modelled on Michael Corleone’s Mafia clan in The Godfather, descends on the offender. Total loyalty is the only acceptable attitude.

I just thought I’d mention this because, when I first started warning that the Tories were not your friends, many years ago, I got some pretty cool responses.

I know some of you think that leaving the EU is enough by itself, but I am still puzzled as to what the Government thinks our recovered independence is for. I haven’t noticed us becoming more British in laws and customs. The British state is as Napoleonic and haughty as anything on the Continent. The presumption of innocence, partly thanks to gendarmes such as Dame Cressida Dick, is a thing of the past.

We have not even yet got rid of the promotion of the stupid, crude, toe-counting metric system, but are still weighed down with kilograms, litres and kilometres. I would have thought that would have been a good symbolic start for a new era.

But there’s no heart or soul in these Tories. They neither think nor feel.

When they get a moment to relax, they use it to permit yet more hideous skyscrapers and decree the concreting over of the countryside. The more they deck their offices with Union Jacks and portraits of the Queen, the more convinced I am that they believe neither in patriotism nor in constitutional monarchy.

NO WONDER they cannot counter the endless exit propaganda of the SNP. They do not themselves much like the Union or the unique British experiment in freedom and prosperity which began at the end of the 17th Century (that’s ‘the 1600s’, for those of you who went to comprehensive schools).

And it is precisely because they believe in nothing that they allowed their worst enemies to impose their policies and aims on them.

I have been watching the truth dawning in the eyes of many over the past few days.

But has the realisation come too late?