The end of the Conservative Party?

[mat]

The unflushable turd will remain that way.

 

[mat]

It feels like we are in a one party state. Few people care about the country it’s all about the poor old Tory Party…. Who engineered this mess?

 

[nmc]

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Putin was helped by IDS, Farage, Johnson and a few others….

 

[Postman Pep]

It really should be ........ But it won't be

 

[Manc in London]

It seems that the Tories problem, in addition to incompetence, corruption and lack of integrity, was that they completely abandoned the centre. They were emboldened by Brexit and infiltrated by the far right. They maintained their popularity for a while, riding the Brexit wave. However, they presumed that they could continue pushing the party further to the right, thinking they had awoken latent far right attitudes in the public. Especially among white northerners outside of the major cities. They went too far. The public just wanted things to improve. We were always going to get to the point where slogans and attacks on the EU, French, immigrants etc., would not be enough for the electorate in a time of crisis. Far right politics rarely delivers solutions in a crisis because the ideology is based on deceit, hatred, corruption and exploitation led by ideologues and their acolytes.

Hopefully, the election will signal the end of the far right in mainstream British politics for a long time.

It would be nice to think this is now the time British politics moves to the left from where it is now with a focus on higher taxes for those who can afford them (not just the wealthy), high quality public services, cutting defence spend and becoming a country that does much better in looking after the vulnerable.

 

[bluethrunthru]

If they give the top job to Sue Ellen or Kemi as a lot seem to want to the Tories will be irrelevant as the Monster Raving Loonies in electoral terms - I am starting to think that is the Labour strategy - let them unleash the uber **** and destroy themselves

 

[Zabbasbeard]

If only.

 

[lloydie]

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

No. I'm surprised at the number of people who still actually support țhem and just blame truss.

An awful lot of people just support one party all their lives no matter what.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

If they give the top job to Sue Ellen or Kemi as a lot seem to want to the Tories will be irrelevant as the Monster Raving Loonies in electoral terms - I am starting to think that is the Labour strategy - let them unleash the uber **** and destroy themselves

Of course. This is right out of the David Cameron playbook. Cameron was Tory leader for ages without saying a single thing about his policies. He just waited for Labour to implode and took the top job by default, only revealing his policies when the election was called. Starmer is doing the same. Don't forget that it was Labour who proposed this vote tonight, knowing it would cause chaos in the Tory ranks.

On the wider point, hopefully they'll be out of government for a long time. But let's face it, people with money, power and media companies like the Tories to be in power, so they're never going away. But hopefully they come back a bit more humble, rather than the raving, arrogant, far-right shit tip they are now.