Game Over
🚨 ComRes have Tories polling just 23% for a General Election, Brexit Party on 14% (Telegraph) — Michael Heaver (@Michael_Heaver) April 17, 2019 … Continue reading →
Category Archives: The Conservatives
The Brexit Party: reasons for optimism, reasons for pessimism
The good bits are obvious: finally a party that is explicitly about leaving the EU, and not isn’t just pretending to be behind Brexit, like the Conservatives were. The Tory vote collapsing. Tories possibly waking up to the fact that … Continue reading →
Mark Francois
Mark Francois. You should see the snobbish comments made on Twitter about him. The FBPE types really go to town looking down their noses at the fact that his English isn’t as good as theirs. Endless mediocrities with 2:2s in … Continue reading →
Millenials: protect the green belt, and give me cheaper housing
You know that recent story that less than one in five millenials supports the Conservative Party? The polling was done by a Conservative think tank called Onward. (The PDF of the full report is here for anyone who wants to … Continue reading →
The executive has gone rogue and launched a coup
Apologies if some parts of this post seem familiar, but it is, after all, Groundhog Month. Theresa May and her team (particularly, it seems, Olly Robbins and Gavin Barwell) are currently undertaking a coup. So far they have been successful. … Continue reading →
Conservative Party modernisation complete
And now: the result of all the attempts at modernization in the Conservatives by David Cameron, George Osborne, Theresa May, and so on, who thought the Conservatives were the nasty party and the old members needed to be replaced by … Continue reading →
Hector elsewhere
Yesterday’s column from The Conservative Woman: May will go to any lengths to win this dirty Leninist war (Regular readers will be familiar with the content.) … Continue reading →
May is a Leninist
How did Lenin manage to take over a vast Empire with a rag-tag bunch of fanatics, and maintain Communist rule instead of being quickly deposed? Obviously there were the particular circumstances of that time and place. But mainly it was … Continue reading →
Burn the mast, burn the deck, burn the wheel, burn everything
It’s being put about that the real point of bringing Corbyn in is that it’s a trap for him, to expose the Labour Party’s hypocrisy and deliberate vagueness on Brexit. This is BS. It may go badly for Corbyn, that … Continue reading →
The point of bring Corbyn in, and the delays is… still the WA
A lot of people have misunderstood what May is doing. The end game is still getting her WA (or a modified version) through. That’s always been her game. Bringing in Corbyn for talks is really about scaring her recalcitrant MPs … Continue reading →
The Conservative members cutting up their cards have picked the wrong time to do it
Yes, really. This may seem a strange thing for me to say, after I’ve been saying for years that the Conservative Party needs to be destroyed, and all the members should quit and join another party. And after I’ve been … Continue reading →
Theresa May currently has dictator-like powers
She’s basically El Presidente now. In regards to Brexit she has presidential powers. It’s she, and she alone, who can agree a delay, or decline to agree a delay. She can ignore her Cabinet (which she has). She can ignore … Continue reading →
Theresa May has switched parties
That is, in effect, what she has done (as I predicted she would a while ago). She has crossed the floor to become a de facto member of the Labour Party so that she can can get a Labourised version … Continue reading →
Nick Boles and the pretend acceptance of failure
You know when someone pretends to apologise but really they don’t? Nick Boles is using the ‘pretend acceptance of failure’, where he appears to admit that he has failed, but then he says that really it was someone else’s fault. … Continue reading →
The 157
Let’s suppose May is forced out before too long. I think if she agrees a long delay on April 12 then she can’t continue. But we’ve said that before. On the other hand, if she manages to get some sort … Continue reading →