What does the Tory Party stand for?

We ought to stop voting for them and vote for a party that can and will stop the assault by the radical left.

In fact, I’m not sure how much of the “Conservative” Party there is left to save. Isn’t it about time we let this left-wing organisation and enemy of the conservative philosophy to their fate and hand it to the wolves? I say it is.

Now Boris Johnson has gone, shouldn’t I be filled with optimism that a new dawn will brake forth, that a new charismatic leader will emerge– one who is patriotic, anti-crime, pro-family, prudent with public finances, not scared of reforming our over bloated institutions like the NHS and is willing to take on the far left radicals who have infested our institutions? Shouldn’t I be hopeful that a new person comes in to save what is left of our dwindling country, bereft by the social, moral and economic decay we see all around us?

For the first time in years, I am genuinely indifferent to who becomes the next Tory leader. I can see no one, from those who’ve stated their intention to stand or in fact from those anywhere on the Tory benches, who fills me with optimism about the type of country many social and moral conservatives, like me, want. I am not going to lie, I voted Conservative in 2019, with the leadership of Johnson as being the main reason to settle the Brexit issue once and for all and move the country forward under this banner. However, I knew, deep down, that he was a poor leader. I had predicted a small Tory majority in that election and, once Brexit was voted through the House of Commons, that he would then move aside for a “serious” Tory leader. I never thought he would deliver an eighty seat majority – I had completely underestimated just how angry the public were with the Labour Party and their attempts to thwart the referendum after their pledge to honour it. My guess is that feeling hasn’t gone away.

But the onset of the pandemic confirmed to me the type of leader Johnson was and is. There is no question now that he and his inner circle unnecessarily panicked over the weekend of the 14th and 15th of March 2020 – when the media was in a state of hysterics over the rise of covid infection rates and the opinion polls (driven by said media hysteria) showed that they wanted something done. Up until that point, Johnson was clear in his ideological stance on freedom – Britain was to pursue a model based on what we now understand was like that of Sweden; clear public health messages, but that risk was a personal choice. Schools and businesses would remain open, financial intervention where needed would be used to help prop up some industry. However, mass panic followed, resulting in what we have now – rising inflation and an almost uncontrollable public debt.

But for me, it was the absolute chaos and mess that came in the months after. I was against the national lockdown, but I was able to understand the argument for it, and I was prepared to forgive a three-month closure to give us breathing space to assess the next steps. But what happened next in the following months, up until Christmas 2020, was absolute chaos and, in some cases, madness. The fact that the govt and media had a standoff for a week over whether a scotch egg constituted a meal or not, tells you how insane that whole period was. It was one of many hundreds of examples. The prophecy was simple – once you’d locked down and allowed the mass panic to take hold, it was almost impossible to fight back against it. The fact that there was a direct correlation between remainers, left-wing institutions, trade unions, woke activists and the Labour Party, and the clamour for further, harder, faster lockdowns and furlough, ought to have been a major alarm bell for Johnson. The fact that he dithered and went along with this madness for a whole eighteen months was a distinct sign that he wasn’t up to the job.

Beergate was a Trojan Horse. Yes, he was wrong to have been involved in that situation and he absolutely should not have misled parliament. But it told us something bigger – that he himself did not believe the virus was as serious as those around him were telling us it was. The fact that he didn’t have the guts to stand up and say it was wrong and not allow his advisors to dictate government policy based on overblown public opinion, told me that he was not the person I wanted for the top job.

But it’s not just that. What does Johnson actually believe in? What do any of the Tory front bench believe in? All we’ve had is Green taxation, smoke and mirrors about immigration (whilst doing absolutely nothing about it), crisis after crisis on social issues, whether its housing or crime – this Johnson led government have given us no hope and no answers.

I see no end to it. I have no idea what any of them stand for. What policies do they have to reverse any of the social decay we see going on around us?

Earlier in the week, I put out a tweet saying that the assault on our way of life by the radical left is far more important than petty politics. If the Tories can’t stop this, then they ought to stand aside. More importantly, we ought to stop voting for them and vote for a party that can and will stop the assault. We need new direction and new fighters for the new era.

I am sorry to say that you won’t get any of that fight from the Conservative Party.