Plenty of true points here, B U T, here’s a clearer vision of the Tory timeline:
1) In 1989, the Tory party’s left wing knifed our most popular and successful Prime Minister since the war, Margaret Thatcher.
2) The party elite drifted sleasily leftwards until it became unelectable in 1997.
3) Several sane Tory leaders tried to cope with the party’s left-wing and the consequent massive loss of conservative votes. All failed and resigned.
4) The party’s left-wing then installed the current “maverick” media whore as “their” leader and so, in spite of daily catastrophes announced by the Labour government, the Tories are still unelectable.
As the writer says of our current media-trophy-wife of a leader, “Thatcherite[s] were harshly culled from the list of potential parliamentary candidates” in 2007. Those empty-headed conservatives!, the writer moans, “they didn’t stick around enough to fight their corner and keep their ideas in the mix.”
Well, you’re completely wrong there. They did “stick around”, for 18 long years, and this is their reward: nothing whatever and then the knife. I’m sure that left-wing Beltway Republicans want a similar timeline, as evidenced by the Presidential candidate.
