Monday, 13 May 2019

Tories are surely on the way out!

It's increasingly difficult to see how the Conservatives are going to survive in this country of mine. Because of the Brexit farce , the Tories received a drubbing in the local council elections, losing 1,300 councillors throughout the country. Now we have the European parliamentary elections coming up and no one, expert or otherwise, thinks the Tories will do well. Those who bother to vote - and the chances are a lot of people won't bother - are expected either to put their cross in the box for the newly formed Brexit Party, led by the incorrigible Nigel Farage - friend of Donald Trump - or go for the Liberal Democrats who want to stay in the EU. The Conservatives and Labour will be the least popular of the parties. So what will Theresa May and her government do if they get annihilated in the European elections? Will they realise no one loves them and so go for a general election? Absolutely not!! This is Jeremy Corbyn's dream. He believes that if there is an election he will end up walking into 10 Downing Street as the new prime minister. I believe he is right. No one any more is going to vote Conservative because Brexit has been so badly handled. So for Theresa May to survive she has to do what she has been trying to do for three years, find a Brexit solution that the majority of people in this country actually want. Her talks with Corbyn and co are really a waste of time because if she goes along with Corbyn's demands - to have a customs union with the EU - it will ineviably lead to a general election because Parliament will never agree to this. Well, not the Conservatives anyway because they will argue that this is not what the people of the UK voted for in the 2016 referendum. They voted to leave the EU, not to be attached to the EU for ever in a customs union arrangement that will prevent the UK from winning trade deals as an independent nation. The UK will not be independent. People like Boris Johnson will never agree to that. So Theresa is not going to get her newest version of Brexit past the hard Brexiteers in the House of Commons. Then there will be two choices: a general election or another referendum. Corbyn is counting on the general election option. And he will win oh my God. I'm told by Labour sources that even though most Labour MPs can't stand Corbyn there will be nothing they can do to stop him becoming prime minister. A midnight coup in which a more sensible leader is anointed just can't happen, they say, because if Labour wins the election it will be seen as a victory for Corbyn and his potty radical mates. They will rule!! We have to prepare for Prime Minister Jeremy Corbyn.

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