The tiger is still hungry
What a joy it is to see that the latest opinion poll predicts that the Tory party will be reduced to just 66 MPs after the election, just ahead of the Lib Dems. Personally I would love to see the Lib Dems as His Majesties Loyal Opposition, but that isn’t going to happen, and to be honest the Troy party isn’t going to sink to double figures of MPs, unless there is a quite remarkable amount of tactical voting.
But a party of under 160 would be a very different beast to the current one, we really have to ask ourselves who will be the rump survivors of an electoral defeat like that?
The centre ground, middle of the road, liberal, caring Conservatives, or the ERG, the ones desperate to shift ever rightward and merge with the baby drowners?
Because you have to remember the Tory party, no matter how large a defeat it may be heading for, will always be back. It has the media and the money and that core base of the swivel eyed loons, the elderly,, the racists and the greedy.
It will always have enough of those well educated and brought up posh sounding toffs in suits to reassure the public that they are the voice of common sense and patriotism; even when they have long moved into the realm of the bigots.
Who is going to fight for the centre ground, big tent Tory party? No one serious I am guessing, like Trump with the Republican party the Tories have been infiltrated and taken over.
Successive leaders have tried to ride the Tory tiger and it has eaten every single one of them, since John Major.
It means we should worry about where they go next, and about whether we can ever trust them in government again.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
By Jonty Bloom Media
Ofcourse that picture changes if we ever get PR voting reform, but Labour are an equally big beast of a party and think they can justify excluding smaller parties from Gvt forever. When will we get a serious discussion of how our 18 century FPTP system has hampered democracy here just as in the US with two parties & political polarisation?