Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed

Surely it is fairly straightforward. People are leaving the Conservative Party because it is more like a historical social club than a coherent political party, with any agenda whatsoever for a program of Government..

Kemi Badenock cannot say, “We need to know who’s on board – and good riddance to the rest of them!” Because what is she positing? On board with what? I’m supposed to be a policy professional, And I have a long history of political engagement, and yet I as a professional, have no clue whatsoever what the Conservative policy position, on pretty much anything, is?

So if you are faced with an entirely unpopular, distrusted, and toxic brand with no policies whatsoever – and a rising, popular bandwagon of nationalist fervour, replete with bunting, high-profile defections and a celebratory atmosphere…. Aren’t you going to sidle out of the room where the alcohol has dried up and somebody is badgering you in the corner with a consideration of railway provision in the East Midlands, and go and join the banging new nightclub up the road? It doesn’t particularly matter that the “new” nightclub is playing Sounds from the 70s and their keynote speaker is Alf Garnet.

Nope. It’s “the energy wot wins it”. Direction, Policy, belief, commitment – let alone enactment. (Lord knows what Reform will do if they actually win!) All of that can come later. For now they are just enjoying throwing shapes on the dance floor…

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