Omni-Shambles

The Conservative Party needs to get real or die

British politics is in a parlous state. At least in America some Republicans are breaking ranks - and being rather successful in the process. But Covid response has revealed a Westminster class that’s not just not fit for purpose. It’s breathtakingly useless.

From the government to opposition to the media and think-tanks we’ve had nothing but parroting and line-toeing for close to three years since China and Fauci gave us Covid. 

Today, London’s METRO newspaper has run a piece suggesting that Liz Truss is cardboard (according to some leading Conservative lights). But there’s no mention of the fact that she’s just one of a cardboard daisy-chain of apparatchiks, each mouthing bland piffle about ship steering, a better Britain and Zelensky-babble - from all corners of the Westminster village. 

I can’t remember a time when so little original thought was displayed by those who have put themselves forward to be our political representatives or commentators. It’s a shit show of shit in a theatre of shit.  From the Latin-quoting lazy-boy that was Boris Johnson we’ve progressed to the governing party of the newly-independent United Kingdom adopting the Ukraine flag as its Twitter logo - egged-on by Prime Minister Truss who can barely deliver a sentence without it sounding seriously out of kilter with the public mood on, well, anything. 

How have we arrived here?  How did this once great nation end up being ruled by bland-mouthing Cretins who seemingly rely on pre-pubescent SPADs to define policy based on the latest media release from dull, corporate-funded supra-national quangos peddling, duh, ‘sustainability’ and ‘climate emergency’ balderdash?

Unfortunately, only politics will get us out of this state of rudderlessness. There are certain fundamental things that need to happen. 

The Conservative Party needs to get real. It needs to establish a commission to reconnect it to something - anything - that feels like core values. Those values are well known. 

Here are a few ideas for starters. It needs to establish control of its borders. It needs to restore order to its public finances - and that will involve a lot of pain given the run on the pound co-ordinated by the central bank and the mountain of public debt it and the Treasury have accrued on our behalf. It needs to distance itself from the Biden-Zelensky foreign policy caucus. It needs to commit to fossil fuels and shale exploration on these shores - and commit to a medium term energy policy underpinned by nuclear. It needs to dump woke and re-establish a free press and end its propaganda campaign around the Covid pandemic scam. It needs to come clean with the British public that its Covid authoritarianism was a mistake. It needs to get big pharma out of healthcare policy.  

Most ordinary thinking people know these things. People are seeing through the nonsense. The “vaccines” don’t work (or worse). The Russians aren’t under the bed. Debt is a manifestation of incompetence. The care workers shouldn’t have been fired. Kent shouldn’t be an open door to people who are taking us for fools. 

There is a leadership prize to be grabbed in the Conservative Party. There’s a nation waiting to be saved. Surely, someone, anyone, is up to the task?