Tories aren’t dead despite election suicide… but they need to wake up NOW
Years ago The Sun likened a defeated Tory Party to Monty Python’s dead parrot. As it turned out, it WAS only stunned
YEARS ago The Sun likened a defeated Tory Party to Monty Python’s dead parrot. As it turned out, it WAS only stunned.
But we’re not going to write off the Tories again, despite their latest troubles. Only a fool would.
They are in power until 2022 barring an unlikely fallout with the DUP or a foolish backbench attempt to evict Theresa May for some unknown successor.
Many believe Jeremy Corbyn is nailed-on as our next Prime Minister. That his popularity is unstoppable and the Conservatives are in a death spiral.
Those people have short memories.
Political fortunes change fast. Only in February the Tories were the first governing party in three decades to take an opposition seat in a by-election.
In May, the Tees Valley and West Midlands picked Tory mayors.
The election campaign was suicidal. Mrs May had a shocker and some natural Tories stayed at home — yet their vote share was UP to its highest since 1983.
Labour overwhelmingly attracted younger people. But they also got protest votes from confused Remainers and Labour moderates sure Marxism could not win. Both will think twice next time.
And, post-Brexit, vast numbers will vote to stop Corbyn’s mad economics inflicting Venezuelan-style poverty on Britain. The last thing any worker or business will need is punitive socialist taxes driving away investment, wealth creation and lucrative new technologies.
Young people aren’t smitten by socialism — just two years ago Labour and the Tories were neck-and-neck among 24 to 44-year-olds — but they DO want change.
The Tories must get their act together rapidly, including the shambolic party organisation. Talented characters like Jacob Rees-Mogg, Rob Halfon and James Cleverly should have major roles in attracting new members.
And while the PM blew her chance to be bold this week, she has no option.
Affordable new homes are the priority. She must borrow billions, build vast numbers on Government land and SELL them, at a profit for the Treasury.
We accept that, unlike Corbyn, this Government has to deal with financial reality. But it is crippled by caution.
It has no imagination for what it could do. It merely knows what it can’t.
Workers need higher pay. Young people want to own a home.
The Chancellor’s Budget next month had better be a blockbuster.
End the greed
WHAT a shameful confession.
British Gas boss Iain Conn finally admits extortionate “standard variable tariffs” are his industry’s “mechanism for making money”. So it fleeces the oldest and poorest customers without the knowledge or skills to switch online.
This is capitalism gone wrong. The price cap cannot come soon enough.
