By her own account, she was in a party that she no longer trusted, had no faith in, and could not defend. “I looked around and realised I was politically isolated and alone.” The problem, as she sees it, is not circumstantial but structural – and insoluble. “Most of the people involved in the great betrayals are the same people running the party today.”
The central betrayal, the one she returns to again and again, is immigration. “The truth,” she warns, “is that half of Conservative MPs are dead against leaving the ECHR. I know it. I sit in the tea rooms. I hear what they say under their breath.”
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Why, then, does she believe that Reform can succeed where the Tories repeatedly failed? Braverman says that, when she tried to persuade the party that Britain must leave the ECHR, to cut visas, to end what she calls two-tier policing, she was left exposed. “None of my Cabinet colleagues stood up for me. Not one.” The Conservatives might respond that recollections vary, but Braverman is insistent that there is a zeal in Reform which she is convinced the Tories still lack.
– Annabel Denham writing about Suella Braverman’s defection (£) to Reform
The pertinent question is why are half of Conservative MPs determined to continue policies harmful to the nation? It can’t be a matter principle, because they don’t have any. It can only be because pressure is being applied. The most likely culprit is the bureaucracy, which can keep them on the back benches and ensure no cushy berth can be found when they leave Parliament. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have a news media that was interested in these questions?
The real reason that Tory Wets oppose leaving the ECHR is that they have internalised a left wing moral sensibility. They see themselves as ‘nice’ people who wouldn’t agree to anything nasty. Their superficial logic is this: human rights are good, so human rights conventions are good; any proposal to leave a human rights convention must therefore be bad. Because they are ‘nice’ people they don’t look any deeper into the issue to see what the consequences of the ECHR convention are, or what the consequences of leaving it might be.
This same superficial leftist thinking applies to any issue, which you put in front of a Tory Wet. Effectively, despite their rosette, their manifesto and the expectations of their party members and voters, they are part of the anto-Western left.
There she is wrong.
The Tories must be destroyed completely. The ground where that once great establishment stood salted, to prevent any regrowth.
Tories Delenda Est!
Then we should do the same with the Labour party, the Lib Dems and the Greens. Each has contributed to political madness and national decline.
Suella Braverman did fuck all about immigration. Wsa this her fault or “the blob”? Dunno, don’t care. She failed. Was it her or Pirtti Patel who came up with the whizz-bang idea of focussing on net migration figures? Of course that means if native Brits pissed-off to sunnier climes then that mitigated our cities and towns turning into “Mogadishu in the Rain” or “Dreary Karachi”. I guess it’s OK to take a cab in Oldham if you are an adult male.
Why do you think the government is hitting Grok? They are doing it to be seen to be doing something about sexual violence and it is a convenient cover to hit a Yarpie rather than tackle the difficult question of “uncovered meat” as cited in the Qu’ran.
“The pertinent question is why are half of Conservative MPs determined to continue policies harmful to the nation? It can’t be a matter principle, because they don’t have any.”
Its pure self interest. If they were to start suggesting policies that run counter to the Establishment’s current ideology they would then become a figure of interest to the Left, and get all the opprobrium that goes with that. They would lose many of their friends, their ticket into polite society, their ability to schmooze the Establishment for nice little sinecures and jobs if they were to leave politics. They don’t want to become a hate figure in the manner of (say) Jacob Rees-Mogg. (He is independently wealthy and aristocratically connected, so is more immune to such social banishment). They have nice middle class lives that are dependent on them not rocking the boat, so they don’t.