, Conservative MPs returned to their constituencies on Thursday and Friday wondering what on earth they would say to voters back home.
It mattered not to Johnson that Labour had been proposing such a tax for five months and that he had repeatedly rejected it for being too anti-business, and essentially unTory. Conservative whips had ordered Tory MPs three times to vote against Labour’s proposal over recent weeks in the Commons. Under Margaret Thatcher – certainly by the end of her premiership – the answer to those questions was abundantly clear. Conservatism meant rolling back the frontiers of the state, getting government off people’s backs and out of their lives as far as possible, lowering taxes and giving people a greater share of the money they earned. It was also about strong leadership and a respect for law and order.
But the increasing worry on the right, and in the Tory-supporting media, is that the entire Conservative brand – the offering – is now fuzzy and unclear, as well as contaminated by what has gone on in No 10. The former Tory cabinet minister David Gauke said he felt for MPs who had to defend the prime minister and also make clear to voters what the current Conservative party stood for. “They have a broad coalition of voters to satisfy, a leader who does not have deep beliefs and an exceptional crisis. I completely see why Tory MPs are worried. All they have is cultural wedge issues like [sending asylum seekers to] Rwanda. But that does not amount to a strategy.
Lord,if it be possible,let this chalice pass from me
Re-introducing the imperial measurement system? 🤣
Imperial measurements system
Pandemic Partying?
He’s not looking good in that shot is he…? Some empathy must have got through the defenses…
All three?
Same as the other major party
The imperial measurement system. What a bunch of mingy fruitcakes
Zelensky 🤣🤣🤣
Apparently it’s re-establishing the Imperial system…
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