It’s Imperative That The Floundering Tories Find A Purpose

It hardly needs saying, but this has been another depressing week for the Conservative Party.

More catastrophic economic news, more policy bloopers, more self-inflicted wounds, all conveying a distinct impression that the government is running out of both ideas and steam.

True, the Bank of England’s inability in handling inflation is entirely to blame for the uphill hike in interest rates which will cause financial distress for millions, including homebuyers and struggling businesses.

Unfortunately, the incompetents in Threadneedle Street will not feel the public’s wrath; squarely in their crosshairs will be the occupants of Downing Street.

With the Bank independent, there’s little the Government can do in the short term to rein in inflation.

With the Bank independent, there is little the Government can do in the short term to rein in inflation. Still, it’s a feather in the Chancellor’s cap that he has persuaded mortgage lenders to do more to assist homeowners in trouble with repayments.

He will also tell supermarkets and energy companies to bring prices down as quickly as possible to lessen the crippling cost of living.

Yet while welcome, this is tinkering around the edges. Mere tinkering won’t win the Tories a fresh term in power.

As the clock ticks down to the next election, there’s no doubt the party is in urgent need of a reset. This begins with asking itself difficult questions. What does it hope to accomplish? What are its values? In short, what is its political purpose?

If the Tories believe in property ownership, they must ignore the Nimbys and build more homes.

If they’re genuine about energy security, they should invest in nuclear and start fracking.

If they are the champions of aspiration, entrepreneurialism and growth, why do we grumble under the highest tax burden since the 1940s? And if the Government truly believes in Brexit, it should ruthlessly exploit the enormous opportunities. Yet it couldn’t even send the minister on to the BBC to defend it.

Persuading the public the Tories deserve another term in office will be extremely difficult after a series of scandals and turmoil, but if the economy bounces back and the small boats are stopped, all is to play for.

‘Another depressing week’ the newspaper outlet said – don’t make me laugh. We’ve had decades of being depressed as we watch the Tories and Labour turn this country into a cesspit.

The Tories really couldn’t find a purpose even if they tried, which of course, they won’t, and I really can’t think why people would vote for them again.

And as for Rishi Sunak, he’s not a leader, he’s a technocrat who’s a cross between a 6th-form prefect and a provincial accountant.

It’s been year after year. Prime Minister after Prime Minister, and they still show they’ve no clue and in the meantime their incompetence and problem avoidance is why everywhere you look there’s debt, decline, waste, inefficiencies, and things to be avoided, more than ever on Universal Credit, more migrants that we can cope with and more arriving on mass every day.

Inflation, interest rates, taxes, GDP debt, cost of living, everything has gone up because we have a rudderless government that makes a lot of noise but does nothing.

The Tories have been fully endorsed as a clown show for the last 13 years, and we definitely don’t want them for another 13 years, but if you believe the propaganda which numerous Tory voters will, then that will be the end of a country, well, what country we have left!