The Conservative volcano is getting more active by the week. This article HERE in The Telegraph seems to portend a climactic eruption at this year's party conference. Battle lines are drawn with new polling from ComRes appearing to show leave voters are becoming restless for a "clean break". Nobody is even attempting to explain to those voters that what they're asking for is deliverable only at massive cost in disruption, lost jobs and economic output. Until the party can reach an agreement on what Brexit means for the country it can't even begin to explain it to voters. A bit of honesty would go a long way but we see no sign of it, even from the chancellor who knows more than anybody what damage a clean break would do.
Chris Skidmore is the newly appointed Vice Chair of the Conservative Party for Policy, and MP for Kingswood, who says the party must be about more than just Brexit (HERE). He wants members to come up with 1000 new policy ideas. Talk about hope being the last thing to die! It's a bit like the purser on The Titanic calling for ideas for games they can play on deck to pass the time before the ship sinks.
Skidmore seems to think peak Brexit was some time ago and it will just fade away gently into the background from now on. By comparison to what has gone, Brexit will soon become a monster, growing ever larger, louder and all-consuming until it totally overwhelms the Tories and us.
I am amazed a senior member of the party is so ignorant about what is coming. Or perhaps he's just trying to maintain as much unity as possible by deflecting the focus away from the plumes of dust and ash beginning to rise from behind the Conservative party faithful.
The conference starts on 30th September - watch out for it. The atmosphere is already so toxic and vitriolic that a lot of MPs are not even going. Let's hope for a mini Krakatoa in Birmingham.
Bojo, straight from the burka row has now decided to leap directly onto the housing crisis without a backward glance at the internal party tensions he has created. He seems to be publishing his own manifesto in weekly instalments like Dickens in Bentley's Miscellany. Who would have thought when the fat idiot, with his unruly hair and scruffy trademark shirt flap hanging out, first appeared on Have I Got News For You, he would set about single handedly destroying the Conservative party? Oh well, it's an ill wind....
