It’s almost as if Sunak wants to be wiped out at the next election. It’s almost as if he hates the people he is supposed to represent.
David Cameron made a shock comeback today as Rishi Sunak sacked Suella Braverman in a reshuffle described as ‘trolling’ the Tory Right.
The PM moved to oust Ms Braverman as he tries to restore his authority with potentially less than a year to a general election.
Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, a close ally of Mr Sunak with less trenchant views on the European Convention on Human Rights, is taking over in the Home Office.
In a decision that sent an earthquake through Westminster, Mr Cameron has been given a peerage and is filling Mr Cleverly’s old role. He is the first member of the Upper House to hold the role since Lord Carrington in the 1980s.
This is the man who, having promised to see through the result of the Brexit referendum even if it went against him, ran away within hours of the result. This is the man who drifted the Tories away from conservatism.
He is deeply distrusted by the Tory right after heading the Remain campaign before quitting in 2016, and also fostered closer relations with China as premier.
Not just the Tory right. I am not a conservative – big or little ‘c.’ I’m a liberal in the traditional sense of the word, however, I tend to side with the conservatives an a great many issues. And I’d prefer a Conservative government to a Labour one. However, under Cameron’s watch, the Tories became blue Labour, so there isn’t really a difference.
Suealla Braverman may have breached ministerial code and she may be deemed to be far right by some, but she is in tune with the silent majority. The silent majority that is tired of the Tories’ failure to deal with the Channel invasion, the failure to act effectively in the face of antisemitic mobs parading their hateful antisemitism on our streets. Braverman’s criticism of the police was justified. That it cost her her job may not be a bad thing for her long term future.
Many, like me, however, will abandon the Tories at the ballot box and vote Reform. If it leads to a minority Labour administration, so be it. The Tories need to be crushed. They are now rubbing our faces in it and we need to punish them accordingly.
I was stunned when I heard.
Bang goes another million tory votes.
Where is the logic in having the man who is a proven liar, an arch europhile, who led a disastrous ‘stay’ campaign, as FOREIGN Secretary?
It makes as much sense as having barely literate Abbot as Shadow Chancellor.
It’s obvious Sunak wants to lose the election so he can get back to earning millions with Goldman sachs in New York. Personally it’s a shame because my local conservative mp is a good guy , whereas the labour candidate is a lefty that loves immigrants especially the illegal kind. But voting conservative again and getting this shower of shite back in again. No thanks. I know Labour will be 10X worse but until the conservatives discover their principles and concerns of voters they remain unelectable.
Personally l think Rishi’s televised meeting with Elon Musk was actually a thinly disguised job interview
It’s almost like he is rebelling against the globo-filth who press ganged him into the being their puppet. I’d advise him not to get on any planes.
Yes, the tories MUST die. Unfortunately they can only be killed politically. What I’d like to actually do to them….
Labour must die too, and for the same reason. Perhaps the zombie clusterfuck that will be a labour government is what labour voters need to see that reality as well.
ANYBODY but labour, tories, limpdumps. That’s all. Any government coming is an anti-British hatefest clusterfuck. Nothing else is possible.
Reform for me too. It might be the seed from which a proper, pro British government can emerge. It might not be.
What have I got to lose?
Mark, I think that the ‘globofilth’, ie WEF, have their pawprints all over this. I’m not sure Sunak makes a move without checking with them first.
Arguably we are approaching the end of the current Administrative State that has extended its tentacles around the heart of the politicians who are nominally its masters. The Administrative State are so blinded by visions of their own virtue that they cannot countenance ever doing wrong. Which plays into the hands of the people who leverage their “victimhood” into “virtue”.
And bringing back Cameron? That’s just pissing on the faces of the people who dared to vote for an outcome not approved by the Administrative State.
Reform or Monster Raving Loony Party for me (although the MRLP might be too sensible…).
“ANYBODY but labour, tories, limpdumps.”
Not the Greens either.
Yes, of course!!
As a life-long Tory supporter / campaigner, I’m done. Reform for me at the next GE.
Say something that’s remotely Conservative and the Conservative party kicks you out. We don’t have a two party system, we have one party, whoever gets in
Today’s event have prompted me to join Reform – that’s an extra £25 they have to help take more votes off the Tories at the next election
I just spotted this at the Velvet Glove Iron Fist blog.
“Meanwhile, Steve Barclay, the health minister at the time of writing*, has penned an article for the Express promoting the policy of tobacco prohibition which begins, apparently without irony, with the following sentence.
This Government believes in letting you live your life the way you want to.”
Apart from banning cigs, ICE cars and useable household heating presumably. They have completely lost it now haven’t they, totally parted company with reality.
Well that’s confirmed my voting intentions, even before this i wasn’t voting for the tory red the labour reds the liberal reds or the green reds and haven’t voted for any of them for over 30 years.
I hope the alternatives, ie reform reclaim whatever’s left of ukip etc can stop playing silly buggers and unite under one banner.
Might as well just install WEF Chief Klaus Schwab as Prime Minister and have done with it.
If the letters of no confidence haven’t been dripping into the 1922 Committee before, they’ll be a bloody torrent by the end of the week.
I agree with all of the above, and will be voting Reform myself when the time comes. However, I’m not expecting much of a groundswell of support going on recent by-elections and local council elections; Reform barely registered in traditionally throw-away protest vote opportunities.
Unfortunately most voters don’t even know Reform exists, especially the silent majority who are too busy trying to keep their heads above water, bearing the disasterous brunt of our current administration; and the MSM is only too happy to keep it that way, giving them zero air time and column inches.
Reform, joined with Reclaim and a number of ex-Conservative MPs could, with good management, become a big enough party to win a few seats and , more importantly for now, become king makers for the next General Election. It’s probably the GE after the forthcoming one where they could be a viable Parliamentary Party holding to balance of power. But ‘could’ butters no parsnips, especially with politicians.
I get mixed up between Reform and that other one beginning with Re-. They need a more distinctive name
“I get mixed up between Reform and that other one beginning with Re-. They need a more distinctive name”
Combine the parties and get Suella Braverman to head it. Call it the Woke party. On the grounds that the Conservatives do not attract small c conservatives, Labour are not interested in labourers, Lib Dems are illiberal and hate democracy. The nearest to an accurate name is the Green party, being immature and having no experience of reality.
I’d planned to not bother voting, for the first time ever.
But now I will. For anyone but the Tories.
That’s the spirit Julia; I wear a poppy in November to remind me of why all those chaps gave their lives, and promised myself very early on that I would always exercise my right to vote, no matter how futile, to honour their sacrifice.
It would be much easier if, as DJ says above, the various sensible factions could come together to present a single clear voting choice, though I suspect that the pure nature of politics and the personas who are good at it makes this somewhat complex. I think a natural leader will be required for this to happen, and that’s not Tice or Fox; this needs someone of Farage’s calibre, though he may already be too tainted with the Brexit brush to have a broad enough appeal.