Forget Boris, it’s Rishi…and he can’t save us
“BRING back Boris,” roared the crowds at a weekend rally of grassroots Tories. But what for?
The message was clear from cheering Boris fans — or is it fantasists?
Their favourite son was betrayed by Rishi Sunak and the party is doomed unless he is restored to the throne.
They need to wake up.
Thanks to Boris, the Conservative Party is already doomed.
What we were witnessing at this seaside suicide fest was the public meltdown of a bitterly divided and mortally wounded governing party.
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All Sir Keir Starmer needs to do is sit back and wait for the Tories to hand him power on a platter.
The Conservative Democratic Conference in Bournemouth was intended to show the fury among party members over the way Brexit-backing Boris was dumped.
Far more damagingly, it exposed the depth of their bitterness towards current PM Rishi, the candidate they specifically rejected as Bo-Jo’s successor.
The strength of feeling was worthy of a Donald Trump “Make America Great Again” revivalist extravaganza.
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After almost 14 years of drift and indecision, it’s fair to say the Tories deserve all they get.
But millions of decent Conservative voters deserve better than this.
They do not deserve a government by default, led by Sir Keir Starmer in ramshackle alliance with the Lib Dem’s Sir Ed Davey.
Indeed, the Labour Party is even more divided between hard and soft Left.
They are simply keeping a lid on it for the time being.
One thing that does unite these factions is a determination to stop the Tories ever winning power again.
The price for Davey’s support will be a new PR voting system — a recipe for flabby government, with the Lib Dems forever at the table.
Asleep at wheel
But Starmer could chose another path, giving the vote to 16-year-olds and EU citizens, throwing money at the NHS and then holding a snap election.
With these extra millions of potential Labour voters, he might sweep the country.
The Tories have been caught asleep at the wheel.
Voters may be genuinely fed up with soaring prices.
But living standards were falling long before the war in Ukraine.
Uncontrolled immigration was an issue long before small boats.
It comes to something when our most skilled immigrants are leaving because they can’t afford to stay.
According to yesterday’s Sun on Sunday, thousands are returning to Poland where the economy is booming and “train fares are so cheap you can travel first class”.
“I thought England would be the land of opportunity, but it was the most depressing place I’ve ever lived,” says Dorata Amtolok, now back in Warsaw.
“Peterborough’s town centre was like a scene from The Walking Dead.
“There were so many people smoking drugs.”
This image will strike a chord with British citizens who have learned to live with potholes, litter, shabby streets, empty shops and rampant immigration.
Will Keir Starmer do any better? Not likely.
Labour is pro-immigration, pro-woke, pro-strikers and pro-decriminalisation of drugs.
Ex-state prosecutor Starmer is a hand-wringing human rights lawyer seemingly more on the side of the defendant than the victim of crime.
He will legalise the right to Work From Home, splitting the workforce between The Blob and those with no choice — drivers, nurses, cops, shop staff, binmen — aka Sun readers.
If you favour the mad dash to zero pollution, free-for-all immigration, race and gender wars or bend-the-knee diversity, Labour is your party.
So why have the Tories chosen this moment to form a circular firing squad?
Do they really believe Boris Johnson is the solution?
The truth is that BoJo did not just lose the leadership — he blew it.
Blindingly obvious
He would never have been dumped if he had delivered Brexit and taken back control of our borders, shredded the Brussels rule book and stood up to an insane green agenda.
Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch is taking the flak today for failing to axe EU regulation. But it was Boris who dragged his feet.
His reluctance to take on Brussels even forced popular Brexit minister David Frost to resign.
It took ex-Cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg, one of Boris Johnson’s strongest supporters, to point out the blindingly obvious.
“We must not change leader again,” he told silent Bournemouth Tories.
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“We must support Rishi Sunak to the General Election or we will be toast.”
Toast it is, Jacob.
Coronation triumph
THE Coronation was a triumph.
But the reign of King Charles III has made an uncertain start.
The new monarch is outspoken on Brexit, zero gas emissions, immigration and race.
These are matters for democratically elected politicians, not for a constitutional monarch.
Charles ignored PM Boris Johnson’s strong advice to keep silent on reparations for slavery.
His stubborn refusal looks certain to backfire . . . on his loyal subjects, the taxpayers.