Just shows you that MPs are only part of the problem, the whole party is rotten to the core. It needs somebody to basically burn it down and start again if they have any hope of not getting eventually permanently obliterated. Think of all the older Tories out there who would never vote Labour because of the state of the country pre-Thatcher. Now realise that's going to be how pensioners will feel about the Conservatives in 30 years time. All the current pensioners propping up the Tory vote will be gone, replaced with a radically anti-Tory generation.
The raw data in YouGov's latest poll has 7% of people aged 25-49 voting Conservative. Ironically, this is roughly the number of people who have private schooling... so you could lazily think of this as a kind of 'nepotistic floor' for their vote i.e. how many votes would they get if it was just all the wealthier people voting selfishly to protect the status quo. Of course, that's an oversimplification, but perhaps a useful heuristic.
Even if the Tories remain in opposition this time around (more likely than not but not guaranteed), I think that this is far from the end of their troubles. They might normalise again in 2029, but they are fighting an enormous uphill demographic struggle that will eventually hunt them down.
I predict that in 10 years time, if the Lib Dems play their cards right, they will be the new permanent opposition. Then Labour and Lib Dems will polarise to give us quite a different picture - Lib Dems will be economically conservative and socially progressive, Labour will be economically progressive and socially conservative. I think you're already seeing this positioning starting to take shape. Of course - that's just guesswork on my part.
