Blog 2023 Malcolm Blair-Robinson

The moment has come for Tory activists and those MPs in thrall to their concerns, to pause and reflect about where they are, what they are doing and where they are headed. In particular they should reflect upon the fate of the Callaghan premiership.

He was a well liked and popular Prime minister, who tried to do the sensible thing for his country which was stricken with economic woes arising out of the boom and bust progression of the predecessor Tory government.

Callaghan was thwarted at every turn by a rampant left wing in the Labour movement which thought itself the solution, when in fact it was the problem. It led to electoral defeat and the  emergence as leader of the Labour party that champion of the left who believed in every dot and dash of the Left’s economic and social agenda, Michael Foot. There followed eighteen years of Labour opposition and the crushing of the power for ever of the trade union movement, which had been the engine of the Left’s advance.

The average age of members of the Tory party is around sixty and the membership is now well below 150,000. Activists have given up on the future and, like the Foot soldiers before them, are looking backwards. They are obsessed with gay marriage and Europe, not because they wish to promote either but because they want to stop both. They may as well try and stop the march of time. Put another way, they are out of touch with the instincts of the rising generation. For a political party this is electorally fatal.

They appear to show no compassion, nor do they engage. They cry shrilly about the ‘institution of marriage’. They extol ‘Brutishness’. What they mean to each other is comfort for their blinkered, reactionary and ill informed views. What they mean to everybody else is that they are nasty conceited old bigots who think they know what’s best for everyone else and who think they have a right to moralise about issues of which they either know nothing or in hypocrisy deny. This is why someone who knows them well described them as swivel eyed loons.

Their eyes should now be swivelled to regard the real issues. Among them are a centrepiece budget proposal to guarantee 95% mortgages, which has now been criticised by almost all responsible economic commentators as well as the IMF and the Bank of England. This blog is proud of the fact that it was among the first to shout out (The Budget: An Astonishing Howler March 21st).

There are clearly mounting problems in the NHS. Having reorganised the structure for the umpteenth time they have failed to grapple with the one thing which would transform the outcomes. You cannot have an efficient health service when the GPs are self employed providing a 1950s retail hours type service at huge cost to the taxpayers who pay all their bills while they work on the main job four days per week and never at weekends or after hours. Neither can you have the surgeons and consultants working the equivalent of two days a week making big money out of private practice, treating patients who cannot get it for free on the NHS in a timely fashion, precisely because these senior doctors are not there often enough to empty the waiting lists. Simply put, having engineered the problem at taxpayers expense, they make private fortunes providing the remedy. Surely the medical profession is approaching its Scargill moment? If not, why not?

Why is is that these activists do not take time off from their obsessions with sex, gender and Europe to urge confrontation with these vested interests? Is it because they perceive them to be Tory voters? The estate agents and the doctors? Maybe these and other problems in our country which are derived from exploitation by vested interests of the Right, are red lines for the swivel eyed loons. But unless they cross them they can kiss good bye to any connection with government for a generation to come.

This blog is is politically neutral. Its eyes swivel in all directions. It reports what it sees.

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