Well well well. The Grauniad is obsessed with what Jeremy f Hunt is calling the possible demise of the two party system.
Firstly we are told there is some kind of non-aggression pact between the two Ks, Keith and Kemi. This theory was based on the exchanges at PMQs. Keith kept on about his disastrous deal with the pesky injuns. Kemi Khazi on the other hand studiously ignored the deal, much to Keith’s chagrin, he was desperate to talk about it. In his eyes it was the best thing that had happened to him in weeks.
Kemi is usually talking about what happened a week ago or flying her own kites. This week she demanded the WFA be reinstated. The Gauniad claims she could not say where the money was coming from. On the other hand, those with any kind of memory will remember Keith hosing billion after billion up various walls and nobody queried where that money was coming from. Ms Khazi did finally ask about Satan Blair and his heresy on net zero, again that was last week’s news. Keith had to dig out his pre prepared seven day old answers. He should hang on to his pre prepared answers on the India deal, it is likely to be raised next week.
The LibDem buffoon Ed Davey did raise the question of the local elections but this was ignored by all and sundry as if it had never happened. Let us remind ourselves of several polls on Wednesday, the Westminster version had prophesied a majority (about 370 seats) for Reform, 87 seats for the LibDems, 86 for Labour and a massive 17 for the Tories. The formerly most successful party ever may be going the way of the Liberals in the 1920s. The voters have not forgotten the 14 disastrous years of Tory rule and the memories of Keith’s duplicity are still fresh, it seems one disastrous year has rendered Keith’s shower unelectable.
Now for people who are obsessed with polls to endlessly repeat they are only interested in the real polls is chutzpah of the highest order. They are so obsessed with opinion polls they commission their own private ones. In passing, another poll predicted Reform taking the Welsh Senned in a year’s time and the Westminster one also predicted Reform becoming the official opposition in Holyrood. Three of the four home nations warming to Reform is quite something.
To return to Jeremy f Hunt and the possible demise of the two party system. My two pence worth is that it will take more than the next four years for the voters to forget the disastrous Tory regime. They had one rubbish leader after another. However many parties are in the mix by the time of the next GE, the Tories are not going to be one of them.
Senior Tories, and there aren’t many of them left, are said to be alarmed about their extinction. They shouldn’t have elected Theresa May, the fat Turk and NikNak as leader then. I will forget about Liz Truss (unlike Labour who still blame her for economic problems) because she only had 40 odd days before she was forced out by the WEF. I will leave out CallMeDave because at least he seemed like PM material for most of his tenure even though he led them into LibDem territory and unwillingly gifted us Brexit.
Somewhere in the bowels of CCHQ there is a Corporal Jones type figure who is urging colleagues not to panic and Kemi Khazi just needs a bit more time to turn the ship around. Billy bumboy Hague says she should not give in to those urging a pact with Reform. Now all Nigel Farage’s people have to do is avoid screwing up their control of ten councils and knives in the MSM are being honed as we speak. The last thing he needs is any connection with the Tories, their incompetence will rub off bigly. No, rather like Harry Halfwit, the Tories have made their bed and will have to lie in it. It is very clear that the only people talking about a pact between the Tories and Reform are the Tories.
The Tories are comparing their low fortunes with the political earthquakes happening in other western countries. The lesson they should be taking in is that if they reverted to being conservatives they might stand an earthly of recovering. The right is on the march in many countries, the best efforts of the EU notwithstanding, and the Tories here have been a pale imitation of the LibDems since CallMeDave undermined them so badly.
Even Nobsore is offering advice. One of our more useless former Chancellors is saying that if they forgot the culture wars and stopped trying to ape Reform they might stand a chance. He elaborated that ignoring tranny toilets and concentrating on taxes might bring rewards. He claims that during his lifetime no Tory opposition has recovered credibility without making the economy central to their offer at election time. And there was us thinking he was just a towel folder.
The real problem the Tories have is their disastrous 14 years of power and the open goals they missed. Moaning at Labour for doing much the same falls rather flat when Keith has the perfect get out. Why didn’t you do it when you were in power. There may be black smoke in the Vatican these days, it seems there is black smoke over Westminster now coming from the funeral pyre of the Tories.
Meanwhile there is just as much panic in Labour circles. Many of them look at the economy as chaperoned by Rachel from Complaints and describe it as a doom loop. The Treasury is under pressure to change tack. We discover there is now a LGG, the Labour Growth Group, who are urging the gummint to go much further on planning and energy reforms. This LGG is pointing out many of the failings we are all aware of. They were there under the Tories but Keith’s change should be working to remedy them. Of course nothing of the sort is happening, Labour are just like the Tories, all wind and gas. They believe that by talking about something then it will just happen.
Very few, if any, puffins will have heard of this LGG and it is odds on you have not heard of Blue Labour either. This group has called for a stronger effort to reduce immigration and economic reform. There is one group you may be aware of and that is the Red Wall group of Northern and Midlands MPs. They are calling for a break away from Treasury orthodoxy and a rethink on the WFA cuts. As is often the case with the left, some Labour MPs are in more than one of these groups. Even Labour peers are putting in their two cents worth.
With its stonking majority Labour is safe for the next four years and that is more than we can say of this country. The opinion polls for the next 12 months are unlikely to offer either of the two major parties any comfort. Reform just have to make a reasonable job of running 10 or so councils and they will be laughing. Expect some dirty tricks in the meantime. Labour is in panic and the Tories are a wounded beast. Both will be gunning for Reform and perhaps collaborating in their attempts to overthrow the usurpers. It is a certainty that both Keith and the anchor baby will return to the back benches long before the next GE. Perhaps the Nigerian will be first as the Tories circle the plughole and she is less effective by the week.
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