You might think that the right and the Conservatives might want to shut up and lick their wounds for a bit but no, there are already launching their counter attack.
The tory slide to irrelevance and oblivion seems a bit like Hemingway said about bankruptcy - it happens slowly, and then quickly. Suspect it’ll be less of a phoenix from the ashes than a brief glow of rage before eternal darkness (well, a boy can dream)
My late husband swallowed the "Covid is only a bad cold" guff. Until it killed him. I do put some of the blame at Johnson and the right wingers doors. Better leadership may have made him see more sense. I for one welcome Patrick Vallance's appointment.
They are facing the proverbial fork in the road. It has lain ahead for a long time, and now they stand at it. What to do? Split along the fault line that has always been there, or consolidate and move forward together, down one or other way, but not both. But whichever it is will make 'all the difference'.
The Conservative party has been around a long time, at least since the 1830's. It won't disappear in name but seems to be morphing into a more rabidly right-wing rabble. If ever it gets sensible, centrist leadership it may become relevant once more but until then it will just be a rag-tag collection of swivel-eyed loons, as a senior Tory once called the Conservative associations.
The tory slide to irrelevance and oblivion seems a bit like Hemingway said about bankruptcy - it happens slowly, and then quickly. Suspect it’ll be less of a phoenix from the ashes than a brief glow of rage before eternal darkness (well, a boy can dream)
My late husband swallowed the "Covid is only a bad cold" guff. Until it killed him. I do put some of the blame at Johnson and the right wingers doors. Better leadership may have made him see more sense. I for one welcome Patrick Vallance's appointment.
They just don’t get it
They are facing the proverbial fork in the road. It has lain ahead for a long time, and now they stand at it. What to do? Split along the fault line that has always been there, or consolidate and move forward together, down one or other way, but not both. But whichever it is will make 'all the difference'.
The Conservative party has been around a long time, at least since the 1830's. It won't disappear in name but seems to be morphing into a more rabidly right-wing rabble. If ever it gets sensible, centrist leadership it may become relevant once more but until then it will just be a rag-tag collection of swivel-eyed loons, as a senior Tory once called the Conservative associations.