This from 2019:
Quote from: TobyD on April 07, 2022, 07:39:36 amHowever I think it is also the conservative party which has an identity crisis at the moment. They're very divided.Yes, so they'll probably (and deserve) to lose the next election, if Labour gets its act together. Labour last won with Tony Blair espousing the big tent actively appealing to other political faiths to join up while the Tories were massively divided on Europe. The last 10 years has had a consistent message from Labour MPs that they don't like anyone who isn't ideologically pure and won't work with them. It's not a way to win people over to your cause...
However I think it is also the conservative party which has an identity crisis at the moment. They're very divided.
This is a pretty good article, although I'm afraid it's paywalled: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-tory-party-used-to-be-led-by-people-who-made-real-sacrifices-pmdmtkq86By Matthew Syed, detailing how he feels that the gradual erosion of public trust is the worst thing about this government. He opines that the sense of entitlement and privilege among the party's top tier has overtaken any adherence to fact or expertise, and that a monoculture of public school followed by Oxford education means that they can't see how their behaviour appears from the outside.
Hard to argue with any of that.
I can understand how infuriating it must be to think that the people who have been setting the rules have not been following the rules, Mr speaker, because I was also furious to see that clip. And I apologise unreservedly for the offence up and down the country and I apologise for the offence that it gives.
Yeah, I bet Vlad is absolutely shitting it that Johnson will stay in No10. If it weren't for that meddling PM he would have steamed into Kyiv unopposed.
The biggest problem is the lack of an obvious alternative. Clearly Rishi is now screwed (and there may well be a reshuffle on the cards soon that sees him sidelined). Truss? Raab? Rees-Mogg? Hunt? Patel? Gove?
There were no parties, but if there were, they definitely di not break the rules.