to infinity and beyond
Last week’s hullabaloo over the fantastic photographs of the massive black hole made me realise I’ve been a little lax of late in commenting upon the Tories’ recent performance. Have a good luck at some of those photos and I’m pretty sure you can just about make-out the remnants of the party disappearing into the abyss.
I have to say there’s something terrifyingly relentless about the Conservatives and their leader, Theresa May. No matter how bad things get, she just keeps ploughing on, regardless, undaunted and seemingly oblivious. The image of Nero fiddling whilst Rome burns jumps to mind. Nothing can stop her and I see her being Prime Minister for years and years to come. Irrespective of the party in government, they’ll just have to accept that she’s the PM and that’s that. Non-negotiable. It will certainly make for a great episode of ‘The Sheriffs are Coming’ when Dirk & Doobie rock-up to No 10 with a court order and eviction notice only to find the door barricaded and a tie-dye-wearing Phillip pouring urine on them from an upper-storey window whilst demanding squatters’ rights!
Mind, if May appears indomitable, the same cannot be said of her party. Poisonously divided, and looking more and more like the ‘nasty party’ that she herself warned about in 2002, they are undoubtedly in line for a severe drubbing in tomorrow’s local council election and next month’s highly divisive European Parliament election. Defections and allegiance-reversals are aplenty and the Tories are heading for a loss of seats without historical precedent.
Moreover, according to research from the Onward think-tank, the longer-term prospects for the party are no more rosy: almost half of Tory voters are over 65 years of age, which can’t be good in any event, but is further compounded by the average ‘tipping-point’ age at which a voter is more likely to vote Conservative than Labour has risen from 47 to 51. There are now fewer ‘card-carrying’ party members in the UK than there are Mormons, which probably accounts for the fact that in the run-up to these elections, you’ve been door-knocked more often by the Jehovahs than by prospective Conservative councilors. Or any prospective councilor for that matter!
