I feel sorry for the Conservative Party workers trapped in the current mess
The poor souls canvass houses where the doors are slammed in their faces, and stay loyal to a party which has had its day.
The only people I feel sorry for in the current mess which calls itself the Conservative Party are the dedicated party workers, the poor souls who deliver leaflets in the rain, canvass houses where the doors are slammed in their faces and who even now still stay loyal to a party which has had its day.
For decades I was privileged to know such people. They put on fetes and functions, sold raffle tickets and displayed my posters. They were the troops who were always at action stations and still are but these days the officers cannot seem to stop brawling in the mess.
It is beyond belief that the weekend press was once again full of speculation about yet another leadership coup. How the heck do these Westminster plotters think their loyal followers feel? Why would anyone go out to meet the voters when all they are going to get in return is a tide of disgust?
The people I am not sorry for are the panickers and conspiracists at Westminster, but do not for a moment assume it will be any different if Keir Starmer wins the next election. The reason that the Conservative Party is in an unholy muddle is because of the quality of its MPs which has been declining for more than two decades, ever since Cameron decided to go for identity politics instead of merit as a factor for approving candidates.
It has been declining even faster in the Labour Party which introduced all women shortlists as long ago as 1993. A vast mass of new, inexperienced MPs will flood into Westminster following a Labour victory and what is now going on among the Conservatives will fairly soon begin to happen to Starmer’s party which is badly split between Corbynistas and Blairites.
Britain wants free speech – which neither major party offers. It wants common sense not woke, less of the people’s money seized by Government in taxes, rigorous education not state propaganda, an NHS which works, effective control of immigration and proper levels of defence capability in an increasingly uncertain world.
Those are hardly unreasonable demands yet neither party offers them in anything other than fine words. Action is there none. It is time for a complete change but that will be possible only if people find the courage to vote for it.
