I don't think so, I think there's plenty of blame to go around the rest of the shower. It was their election to lose, and lose it they have. Good to see a healthy showing for ReformUK, though, and both Farage & Tice now in the HoC.
Recriminations have begun to fly around the Conservatives as a senior figure called the last few weeks the “worst campaign in my lifetime” and criticised the party for failing to tackle the threat from Reform.
Rishi Sunak started the week with warnings against handing Labour a “supermajority” and a “blank cheque” and claimed a vote for Reform would hand more power to Keir Starmer.
They even brought on Boris at the last minute to 'help':
I expect, like me, a lot of ex-Conservatives looked at that and said to themselves 'Why would we need to vote Starmer in for that, when we've got it under Sunak anyway?'...
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"failing to tackle the threat from Reform"
Political parties will never consider that the people should vote for whoever they think is the best for the country, they only consider how they can remain in control
Worzell Gummidge Corbyn and the Abbottamus back in the Party, some time in the next 6 months, and both sat on the front bench; the Palestine rag, sorry, flag, flown alongside, and probably slightly higher, than the Union flag; the Ginger Growler in charge of housing (and the CGT it will produce); Unite leaders given diplomatic immunity; Farage, Tice, and Anderson, given seats nearest The toilets, out of spite. The list goes on. What could go wrong?
I knew that Pre Frazer could foretell the future.
Penseivat
I think that Reform getting a decent share of the vote is one glimmer of good news. We all know how difficult it is to get a new party off the ground with our FPTP electoral system so, in my opinion they did incredibly well. I just hope that they can make it to the next election without disintegrating like so many new starts have done previously.
The rot in the Tory party started a long time ago long before Rishi and May, Cameron and BoJo.
Net Zero - the sacrifice of our economy and heavy industry for the benefit of India and China who just keep literally steaming on. Quite happy to sell us steel, solar panels, wind turbines, exploding car batteries and all the other stuff our redundant skilled workers used to make.
A half in, half out Brexit. Still kowtowing to the unelected EU Commissioners even though the good ship EU is sinking at the orders of the USA PTB.
The wave upon wave of young men who have abandoned their families in Africa and Asia to sample the benefits of all of Europe.
Provoking Russia under the pretence that we have an Army, Navy and Airforce capable of attacking Russia in a campaign lasting more than a week.
Aaand then there is Covid and the miraculous "vaccine". Economy, education, social interaction, all put into hibernation at the behest of a cabal of statisticians armed with Sinclair ZX Spectrums, the single word oxymoron, SAGE, a mendacious MSM, and a bunch of snake oil pushers. (Whatever happened to all the lung bursting "ventilators" which were an essential tool of the Tic-Tok dancers?)
Then the Tory government had the cheek to overlook all this bunch of gougers and slap a windfall tax on the only successful industry, hydrocarbon producers, we have left. While buying super expensive Liquified Natural Gas and forests, felled, dried, chipped, and then watered to prevent spontaneous combustion, all the way to a Drax furnace, from our best buddy, the US of A.
End of rant.
Any bets that the UK will be back in the EU embrace within the next 5 years ?
The Tories lost the election for one simple reason, they have been a rubbish government and have wasted the last 14 years. Seen here in New Zealand, where we have a form of MMP proportional representation, it is astonishing that Reform got so few seats compared to the Limpdums.
"...they only consider how they can remain in control"
That didn't work out so well this time around, at least, for the 'Conservatives'...
"I knew that Pre Frazer could foretell the future."
If anything, he was a bit too optimistic!
"I think that Reform getting a decent share of the vote is one glimmer of good news."
Now they have to build on that!
"The rot in the Tory party started a long time ago long before Rishi and May, Cameron and BoJo."
And there's no sign that they have learned their lesson, if this is any example.
"Any bets that the UK will be back in the EU embrace within the next 5 years ?"
Talks have probably already started.
"...it is astonishing that Reform got so few seats compared to the Limpdums."
Indeed!
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