If we have learned one thing since May 2015, it is that the Tory party post Thatcher cannot govern on its own. Having led a perfectly respectable and rather effective coalition government for five years, Cameron has managed to \u00a0blunder out of Europe, threaten the Union, create economic uncertainty which will fester and grow\u00a0and\u00a0gone back on his promises\u00a0to continue to lead the country, even if Yes to\u00a0Brexit, and invoke Article 50 immediately. All because he had a Tory Party majority for the first time since Major. Including Major the Tories have had five leaders since Thatcher. All have failed one way or another. All were men. Time for another woman?<\/p>\n
As for Boris, there are no words. His bid to become prime minister, of which his cynical decision to lead the Leave campaign was a price both this nation and all Europe has now to pay, will be long recalled as one of\u00a0the most spectacular political car wrecks in history. Only yesterday, yes yesterday, the Tories sat \u00a0in the Commons at PMQs, laughing smugly\u00a0at the turmoil which Labour had brought upon itself. Well today it is all changed. This Tory government,\u00a0with its lying, treacherous, Old Etonian core, has become the laughing stock of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If we have learned one thing since May 2015, it is that the Tory party post Thatcher cannot govern on its own. Having led a perfectly respectable and rather effective coalition government for five years, Cameron has managed to \u00a0blunder out of Europe, threaten the Union, create economic uncertainty which will fester and grow\u00a0and\u00a0gone back […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malcolm-blair-robinson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10464,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10462\/revisions\/10464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmblair-robinson.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}