It is one thing to have a good laugh at the doom laden predictions of the Tory party and its commentariat. A new Dark ages is approaching if we dare not vote for them and so forth, some of which is so delusional that you worry for the mental health of the writers.
Hearing the opinions of the Reform voters who are deserting the Tory party is another thing. These people think that Reform is just the real Tory party, that the Conservatives have drifted to the left and are woke, gay pride marching socialists.
Nothing could be further from the truth but the really worrying thing is that in their move ever rightward in order to try to hold onto these people the Tory party has failed miserably, for obvious reasons.
Tell people immigrants are invading and then fail to stop them and what are they gong to think? Tell people you have to cut immigration, that it is vital that you are being overwhelmed by foreigners and then fail. Tell people that you are cutting taxes and cutting taxes is vital and then put them up and what are people going to think? Tell them the ill are shirkers and then not cut down the number of shirkers and what will people think?
You cannot solve a problem by lying about it, all you do is convince people of the lie and that there is a simple solution to it and then you fail. The next bunch of chancers then say they have the simple solution but it has not been introduced because only they are true patriots.
The Tory party has a choice now, it can stop lying and hope that it can win people back, with sensible, honest, achievable policies. Or it gets taken over by Reform and betrays the country.
The baby drowners will have won because the Tory party was too scared to stand up to them.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
By Jonty Bloom Media
Losing heavily to Johnson was the start of labour’s revival- the same even more substantial defeat won’t save the Tory party who will have a long wait to even get back to where they were decades ago.
For every complex problem there is a solution that is simple, neat - and wrong (either Mark Twain or H L Mencken - not sure which, but either way it sort of nails the tories)