What Now for the Conservative Party?

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Thankfully consultancy work in Italy meant I had to be there during the General Election week. I left a United Kingdom on its knees politically, socially and economically. I return to one on the verge of having the erect member of rampant socialism, priapic and engorged with the flush of victory, inserted into whatever orifice of the British People Sir Keir Starmer instructs.

The wee fellow of South Asian extraction who once led the Tory party conceded defeat early on results night and, sensibly, resigned the leadership – if, indeed, the word ‘leader’ is appropriate – of said Tory party. With any luck, we will never hear of or from him again. But what now?

The first issue facing the Tory party is who will be the next leader. There are so few of them left in Parliament that it hardly seems worth appointing one. The charismatic Jacob Rees-Mogg has lost his seat and Liz Truss, who seemed increasingly sensible in hindsight, is likewise out. Ebullient Aberdonian Michael Gove resigned leaving Suella Braverman who may well have upset too many people to be elected.

It will probably fall to Jeremy ‘journeyman’ Hunt to take the reins. A man more boring it is hard to imagine but, at least, we can look forward to radio and TV presenters struggling to avoid calling him a c**t. The rest of us can let rip without restraint.

But whether the Tory party will recover any time soon is not such a concern. Even if they gain some momentum and rediscover the conservative values that we promote here at TNC, we probably face twenty years of unbridled socialism red in tooth and claw. Even if Labour can turn the economy around and reduce unemployment, it is the rest of their agenda that should worry us most.

The Tories were unable to stem the flow of the great unwashed arriving on our shores, despite some fine words to the effect that they intended to. Labour will not even try, despite their own rhetoric about doing so. Labour is in thrall to the woke intelligentsia who simply cannot bring themselves to judge between legal and illegal immigration.

In their eyes everyone and anyone who wants to come to the United Kingdom is a deserving case; a position they find easy to adopt, as the least deserving of the cases don’t end up living in proximity to them. It is the lumpenproletariat who must suffer the crowds of young, mainly Muslim, men hanging about their towns, fighting amongst themselves and treating their daughters with less respect than they should.

If you think political correctness has gone mad you’ve seen nothing yet. Critical race theory will become the norm for the staff training agenda of major corporations and the ability to challenge that, already severely eroded, will become non-existent. Where sacking and ostracization have already become the norm, we can expect to see prison sentences and correctional facilities dedicated to churning out automatons with acceptable views. You heard it here first.

Labour makes no secret of their dedication to ‘net zero’ with respect to carbon dioxide emissions and, where the Tories flirted with this nonsense, we can expect to see a full-scale imposition of all manner of climate related restrictions on the general population. Our leaders will continue to jerk off at jet off to Davos while the rest of us will be lucky to make an annual trip in our e-jalopies to a carbon neutral theme park or low emissions Butlins.

God alone help us if there is another fake pandemic. The Tories completely ruined the country and many people’s lives over Covid-19, and Labour’s only response was that it would have locked down longer and harder (ooh, Sir Keir!). Big Pharma, already a brim with the billions earned during the Covid years, must be rubbing its collective hands in glee at the prospect of further windfalls as Labour finances repeated rollouts of ineffective and unnecessary but damaging mRNA vaccines for every new variant of Covid-monkey-bird flu that comes along.

The only silver lining in the dark cloud that threatens to cover the land for decades, is that the SNP were sent home ‘tae think again’ after 4 July. In any case, Labour no longer requires their services; they are back in power both sides of the border and have no need of the tartan terrorists to impose their agenda in Scotland.

And, finally, we have a new Deputy Prime Minister in Angela Rayner. Sir Keir isn’t daft, and he’s thrown a bone to this foul-mouthed, flame-haired oik in the same way Tony Blair threw one to John Prescott. ‘You can have a place in the cabinet, a grace and favour apartment but fir gawd’s sake, keep yer mouth shut.’ This only leaves one question: who throws the best right hook, Prescott or Rayner?

Roger Watson is a retired academic, editor and writer. He is a columnist with Unity News Network and writes regularly for a range of conservative journals including The Salisbury Review and The European Conservative. He has travelled and worked extensively in the Far East and the Middle East. He lives in Kingston upon Hull, UK.

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