16 June - Oblivion awaits the Conservative Party unless…
Boris Johnson appears to be on some sort of suicide mission and determined to
take the country down with him. He has done absolutely nothing to
steer the economy away from the rocks, instead he jacks up tax levels to those
of my WW2 childhood. Not a single step towards reaping the
Brexit benefits. Except that we appear to still be resented because of
Trafalgar and Waterloo we may as well have stayed under the control of Brussels.
Three years after becoming Prime Minister Johnson continues to accept that
British supermarkets cannot fill their shelves in Northern Ireland without going
through expensive export procedures while our own south coast has open borders
thanks to some unnamed nonentity in a European Court.
I very much hope that Johnson’s candidates are thrown out decisively in Wakefield
(see below) and Tiverton next week, it may be the last remaining hope of drumming Conservatism
into a few thick heads.
My weekly trip to Sainsbury’s this week resulted in the purchase of six items.
The prices since the last time I bought them were up by 16%, 8%, 8%, 7·5%, 6% and 0%.
The 0% was probably a freak related to the 50% increase on its previous
purchase. Fortunately the sunshine this week has put nearly £90 into my bank
account thanks to the Green Levy. Utter madness and we deserve better from Conservatives.
There is no shortage of advice
and I can only assume that some enemy of the state has
something over Johnson. Quoting from just one article in the Daily Telegraph we have…
• With slowly dawning horror voters have realised that the man who was once
their hero is Cino - Conservative in name only.
• You may recall the euphoria of December 13 2019. We were so damned chuffed, BJ
had slain the Corbyn beast. He had a golden opportunity to write a glorious
chapter in the history books and he squandered it.
• What will BJ be remembered for? Wall paper and “work gatherings” in No. 10 at a
time when ordinary people risked arrest if they answered an SOS from an elderly parent.
• Let’s travel up the M1 to Wakefield where a Conservative canvasser reports that
things are absolutely dire on the doorstep. “Thousands of Tory voters are saying
they will not turn out because of Boris. It’s grim. If we had a Conservative
leader with Conservative policies we’d do alright.”
• Who knew that Tory voters are upset with a government showing no sign of being
Conservative? Me and pretty much anyone who doesn’t work in the Westminster echo chamber.
• Hell hath no fury like a diehard Conservative scorned and we may be about to
witness that fury’s full force.
• For
months I have been hearing from lifelong Conservatives who say they will never
vote Tory again until that “charlatan/buffoon/Net Zero numpty/green socialist/habitual liar” is removed.
• If Tiverton falls to the Liberal Democrats there will be 291 Conservative MPs
who will be defending less safe seats.
• While BJ is merrily churning out quasi-socialist policies to shore up the Red
Wall most of his MPs are at risk of being buried when the Blue Wall comes tumbling down.
• He’s Left-wing economically, sticking with the green stuff in the middle of an
energy crisis for God’s sake and busy incinerating his own majority.
• There is no commitment to swerve right and be the sensible
low-tax government we crave.
• Ignoring runaway immigration, punitive rises in National Insurance at a time of
hardship, reform of the NHS, the ruinous commitment to Net Zero would be
laughable if things weren’t so desperate.
• There is no need for character assassination of the Prime Minister. Boris is his own best assassin.
• Millions of Conservatives are desperately sad that their most entertaining and
energetic performer has come to this sorry pass.
From the Torygraph of all places but it sums up my view fairly precisely.
I drew the article to the attention of a Conservative friend in Bexley and
to my surprise was rewarded with “You are obviously bored. Get off my [Twitter] feed, You are insignificant.”
So I suppose some local Tories are stuck in the Westminster bubble too.
Note: This story was invalidated to some extent when around
ten days later it became apparent that the response addressed to me was intended
for someone else and on a different subject.
Wakefield by-election
Politics has taken a strange turn in Wakefield. The Britain First candidate’s
campaign ‘bus’ was subjected to a rolling road block of five police cars and a
dog unit and the men on board arrested for something alleged to have happened outside a college
where the Labour Leader and his Deputy were delivering a lecture.
It was a cock and bull story comparable to the beergate excuses but when you are in an area
with police linked to a Crime Commissioner who joins Starmer on the campaign
trail anything might happen; like arrests and the confiscation of the ‘bus’ and mobile phones.
If you ever doubted that police behaviour is outrageous and only explained by
political corruption this video may open your eyes to it. Unfortunately it is
far too long at 41 minutes but there is a shorter version at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GPy4M2qMl8&t=36s
Britain First may be a long way from being everybody’s cup of tea but its is an
acknowledged political party with an approved candidate. In a democracy he must
be heard - but in a police state possibly not.