Can Bullingdon explain the Tory defeat? Updated.
A Labour government is a necessary first step in repairing the fractures of the Union. At least part of the divorce fever in Scotland and Wales over recent years has been driven by a visceral rejection of the Bullingdon Tories.
From Wikipedia:
The Bullingdon Club is a private all-male dining club for Oxford University students. It is known for its wealthy members, grand banquets, and bad behaviour, including vandalism of restaurants and students' rooms.
Membership is expensive, with tailor-made uniforms, regular gourmet hospitality, and a tradition of on-the-spot payment for damage.
Some members have gone on to become leading figures within Britain's political establishment.
These include former Prime Minister David Cameron, former Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, and former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
The Bullingdon is often featured in fiction and drama.
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Telegraph 7 June 2024
https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2024/06/ambrose-i-may-have-to-vote-for-rishi.html
Let’s be clear where blame for this Tory disaster really lies
Defeat is imminent. Our focus must turn to how to bring real conservatives together after the election
Six weeks back, when the election was called, I urged Tory voters to return to the colours. I didn’t know then, of course, that we were planning to run a political-campaign equivalent to the first day of the Somme.
Yes, Nigel Farage and Reform UK have split our vote. But the Conservative Party doesn’t have a God-given right to occupy the Right of British politics.
Reform is perfectly entitled to stand against us if it wants to. It’s not up to them to care about the institutional future of the Conservative Party. That’s our job.
The only reason Reform is damaging us is because we have been such poor representatives of genuine conservative politics ourselves.
Which takes us to where the responsibility really lies – on the party leadership, their advisers, and their ministerial supporters, outmanoeuvred, surrounded by yes-men, oblivious of public opinion, blind to the consequences of their decisions.
Since the autumn reshuffle and the disastrous mistake of returning to Cameronism (including by bringing back the man himself), since the persistent failure to do what was necessary to control the small boats problem, disaster has been inevitable.
David Frost Telegraph 27 June 2024
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06/27/lets-be-clear-where-blame-for-tory-disaster-really-lies/
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