BY ALEX STORY
Sunak was the first man who lost his way to Downing Street.
He won’t be the last one to lose his way out, thankfully.
The end game in politics for the current Prime Minister is approaching fast.
The poison which set the Tory party on the path to self-destruction was injected by Osborne, Hague and Cameron in the body of this ancient institution all the way back in 2005, when the “heir to Blair” position became official during David Cameron’s leadership campaign.
They created a Tory Party in their own image, based on Tony Blair, who was supported by people who detested the United Kingdom as they inherited her in 1997.
They convinced themselves that Blairism was the only possible path to victory.
Saying one thing while doing precisely the opposite became the way.
Forcing the electorate to accept a fait-accompli was the aim.
The imposition of centralised ideas on the British people was followed by the constant repetition that the current situation was inevitable and nothing could really be done to change course.
“Our hands are tied” was the refrain of that tedious song.
Of course, on occasion the truth slipped out.
On the hot topic of demographics, Andrew Neather reminded us in 2009 that “mass immigration was the way that the Government was going to make the UK truly multicultural”. An aim, incidentally, that had no popular support at all.
This, he admitted, brought a conundrum to the fore.
On the one hand, it would put pressure on Britain’s poorest by deflating wages, increasing pressure on services, but more importantly, disorienting them by making hitherto unchanged and centuries old communities totally unrecognisable in a very short space of time.
Our working men would just have to cope with New Labour’s top-down plan to make Britain a “more modern place” – whatever the consequences.
“There was a reluctance”, Neather wrote, “in government to discuss what increased immigration would mean, above all for Labour’s core white working-class vote” because of their inherent conservatism.
He adds “ it wasn’t necessarily a debate” the Labour leadership “wanted to have in working men’s clubs in Sheffield or Sunderland”.
Duplicity came easier while simultaneously calling anybody who noticed the names with which we have by now become so mind-numbingly familiar.
While negative for their core voters, the Labour Party thought it worth the gamble.
On the other hand, it would put the Conservative Party on the defensive, Labour thought, by rubbing “the Right’s nose in diversity and rendering their arguments out of date”.
The Conservatives had already decided to accept Labour’s multi-cultural vision for Britain in 2005. They only accelerated the process.
The Balkanisation of the United Kingdom became the plan, for different reasons, for both parties.
A crucial reason was economic growth.
But the Conservative Party didn’t just accept Andrew Neather’s exposition on immigration. They accepted everything: gender ideology, ever increasing levels of “lobbied for” regulations, equality laws, an insanely detached green agenda and constitutional tinkering.
All of these led to financial incontinence.
Indeed, in the 20 years to 2024 our national debt grew by 540%, to £2.7 trillion. Our debt nearly has doubled since 2016, for no discernible improvement in government services.
Surprisingly, the costs of COVID were only a fraction of the increase in our indebtedness.
With productivity flatlining over the period, growth came principally from immigration.
To pay for its liabilities and keep the pound sterling from losing all value the government needs growth.
Having accepted Labour’s anti-business philosophy, the Conservatives banked all on open borders, there being no alternative.
They also bought into mass deception.
They simply lied about their aims in the short term to gain political office and implement policies diametrically at odds with manifesto pledges. People in high places call such attitudes “clever”.
Two parties standing for the same aims, only disagreeing on the speed of self-mutilation, was from what a disconsolate electorate was asked to choose in the forthcoming general election.
Replacing Sunak with Starmer, as the joke goes, is like changing your tie when you have soiled your pants.
This General Election threatened to give the British public no alternatives.
Nigel Farage’s entrance on the scene has thankfully changed the situation.
The Labour Party, and its adoption of all fashionably elitist causes, from gender and racist politics to a deep reverence to anti-human environmentalist theologies and supranationalism, is a known entity.
Starmer knelt to Black Lives Matter and is on record saying that some women have penises. There is nothing he won’t do or say.
We know what he will do: More of the same but faster.
The Conservative Party leadership, having revealed itself to be anti-patriotic, unconcerned about our borders, lackadaisical about law and order, and unable to defend Brits from the insanity of the hard left, has no reason to exist.
The prediction must be that the Tory party will revert to the 9% of popular support it deservedly reached in May 2019 for the European Elections.
That is all that a principle-free corporatist party can expect.
Nigel Farage, on the other hand, from the position of a challenger, can look to a successful few weeks leading to July 4th.
In May 2019, his Brexit Party won over 30% of the votes, becoming the biggest winner of that election and freeing the British public from a deeply mediocre Theresa May.
Perhaps more importantly, Nigel Farage garnered close to 4 million votes in the 2015 general elections, more than the Lib Dems and the Scottish Nationalists combined.
That was before the scales had fallen from the British Public’s eyes after the Brexit vote.
The British public witnessed and is still experiencing an epic elitist Brexit temper tantrum.
Nigel Farage is the only philosophical opposition for an increasingly sceptical British public.
With no real alternative, it is feasible to imagine a near doubling of Farage’s 2015 position, coming close to the 8 million vote mark.
That realisation is perhaps why he is being attacked by the usual suspects with unsurpassed levels of venom.
The more they spit, the greater his chances of breaking the first past the post glass ceiling.
And who now will miss that ceiling being shattered?
Alex Story is Head of Business Development at a City broker working with Hedge Funds and other financial institutions. He stood for parliament in 2005, 2010 and 2015. In 2016, he won the right to represent Yorkshire & the Humber in the European Parliament. He didn’t take the seat.