First we had the worst local election results for the Conservatives since Tony Blair’s humiliation of John Major 25 years ago as; after breezily preparing to lose ‘around 600 seats’, the Tories lost more than double that number and 44 councils to boot. The other ‘main party’, who, as the official opposition, would normally be expected to gain seats and council chambers also succeeded in losing both.
Then, on Sunday, the Euro Election results handed the Tories their worst ever result with the Brexit Party taking 9 out of 12 regions and 29 MEP seats and the Tories falling to just 4 seats, another historic low. Again, from the Remainer camp, Labour was roundly punished for their continued indecision, coming a poor third after the Lib Dems and holding just 10 seats. Had this been a General Election with FPTP, and with the Rutland part of the Rutland & Melton Constituency voting in favour of TBP with 36.1% and Melton doing even better at 42.2%, I’d now have Annunziata Rees-Mogg as my local MP instead of Alan Duncan…
Maybe Brexit is a single issue but in the minds of most voters, as demonstrated twice in the space of a month, it’s the most important issue and it’s beginning to come apparent that regardless of other concerns, Remainers are voting Lib-Dem and Leavers are voting for the Brexit Party. The Conservatives and Labour, with their current stands, are rapidly becoming an irrelevance. This new polarization in British politics has already been highlighted elsewhere by better known and more knowledgeable political commentators than me…
But signs still show that the Westminster Bubble remains blindly unpoppable! Ex-Tory MP and member of the Change UK party, which polled abysmally, only beaten to the bottom of the league table by Gerard Batten’s benighted UKIP, the unlovable Anna Soubry, cheerfully tweeted her thanks to “over 600,000 people” who’d voted for them, adding, “we have polled better than any genuinely new UK party.” Well, sorry Anna, according to the Beeb, you actually got 571,846 votes and the real ‘genuine new UK party’, TBP, got nearly ten times that number, coming in at 5,248,533. Unless you are a graduate of the Diane Abbott school of mathematics, that means that TBP polled ten times better than you did! Of course, Soubry will point out that Nigel Farage has been involved in politics for over twenty-five years to justify her ‘genuine’ caveat whilst ignoring the inconvenient truth that she and her fellow members of the CUK losers club have well over 100 years as MPs between them, with the political tenures of people like Coffey and Gapes exceeding Nigel’s total individually!
But the real test of whether our political class, especially the Conservatives, are actually capable of facing the facts comes with the Tory Leadership contest. If, as has been widely reported, Tory MPs scrabble around to ‘Stop Boris’, or Raab for that matter, and arrange things so that yet another Remainer takes charge of the party and (theoretically at least) the country, then it really will be game over for the Tories. The only way they can stop the Farage juggernaut brushing them to one side will be to have a genuine crowd pleaser, like Johnson, who has already unequivocally committed to a No-Deal Brexit on 31st October should the EU be unwilling to shift un millimètre on their position. Only a genuine Brexiteer Conservative leader and PM, unafraid of going for the WTO No-Deal ‘Hard Brexit’, should EU intransigence continue, can dig the Conservatives out of the grave that they have so assiduously dug for themselves.
Boris, Raab or any of the other traitors who voted for the WA on the third reading have a short political life in which to do nothing.
None of them have to be for or against a ‘no-deal’, all they have to do is follow the Law. The Law states, under Article 50, unless there is an extension we leave whether or not a ‘deal’ is made.
What is important now, after the incompetent May, is that no more extensions are made. Let the EU worry about the deals. We won’t accept their bottom line, so the ball is in their court.
With recesses for our lazy politicians both here and in the EU there must be about two months for additional negotiations?
Any new PM has just to ‘do nothing’ and it will be job done. Surely they can manage that? Before they are kicked out!
So I would hope for the biggest and best waffler. Ah yes, Boris.
“The Law states, under Article 50, ……” Yes but May unfortunately is still around and dangerous; according to some, eg Jeff Taylor, she will try to get that changed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbQZvHeXD6Y Boris or whoever, along with TBP, will also have to raise the topic of EU Military-Security Unification. UKIP’s excellent Liz Phillips at 2.38 on this clip says that UKIP told MPs about this , so no excuse for not dealing with it: whereupon the BBC abruptly changed the subject by wheeling out the old accusation of us being extremist right wing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is there not a case to bring Speaker Bercow up before the High Court for provably being biased in favour of Remain, rather than his constitutional obligation for neutrality?
If Tommy Robinson, Robin Tilbrook and many others can be blocked by nefarious means from having their case answered, then stuff it we the people can at least have OUR day in court and Get Bercow. Come on, you spineless scum in the Commons. For once in your miserable worthless lives, get up off your lazy fat bums and do something FOR THE COUNTRY.
I think Boris or Raab it’s gotta be.
The difference is, I’m afraid Bojo may not have the absolute determination to outstare a)parliamentary Dot Cottan type remainers b)the Whitehell ‘advisors’ in No10 (Robbins and ?Sedwell), vis a vis waiting to WTO us out.
Therefore, my money’s on Raab. Hear him on Marr last week? He’s ma man…Forget Get Boris, only thing to fear is the a) and b) types getting Dominic.
What do you think?
ADDENDUM: c)The Speaker of the House of Commons
The very notion that Johnson would ever unequivocally commit to anything is laughable.
Not in the leafy shires or the manicured lawns areas of most cities and towns they are certainly not, only things which have a direct impact on their lives will draw any support and then only from behind a computer or a smart phone, sorry but I’ve heard all this before and see what most of the masses do, they will leave it all to somebody else while clucking about it, and then return to the safety of what the BBC and their favourite ‘middle market’ media tells them. As for the younger generation, judging by the crocodiles of students visiting the tourist centres of our city this week, with mostly female teachers for some reason ‘the threats of P.C/climate change indoctrination / appeasement of every threat that many older heads can see coming, does not bother them one little bit. The masses hardly noticed the threat posed by Hitler before the second world war as they chose to ignore what was in plain sight, ( a quick read of the middle market press from the 1930’s or a reading of ‘Travellers in the third Reich ‘ illustrates perfectly how things change but stay the same) . You are correct that it will be the few that do it, but to be honest I cannot see it being that few.
Nothing I am afraid, MSM and political elites are holding strong. A lot of apathy among people. Doom clock is ticking: overpopulation, robotization, Islamization, degradation of law and order and demise of public services. We can see all them happening now but they will be much worse in the near future.
The only party that has over the last 25 plus years had success after success in regards to
pro English / GB issues is UKIP.
The farage WAS the UKIP mouthpiece he was NOT the whole UKIP,the likes of Gerard Batten have as a founder member has always, (25 plus years unbroken service), been the power behind the throne.
I and many more want to see Gerard stand in the leadership elections for one very good reason, he is very sorely needed combatting todays PC/Appeasement / political climate.
Peoples of the Gerard Batten / Tommy Robinson / Carl Benjamin ETC are, very shortly going to be in great demand as in regards to islamic ideology and the consequences of.
Ogga1 you are right
PMB Yes ogga1 is right.