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Time to Ditch the Lame Duck Tories

Pete North • 12 January 2022

Johnson is a deadbeat PM - and he knows it.

There’s a lot of chatter on Twitter as to whether Johnson should stay or go. Right leaning voices are urging caution, suggesting that Johnson is still the least worst option.

We are given to wondering what difference it makes either way. Johnson has been the standard bearer for net zero. His close advisers and allies include his wife, Carrie Johnson, who works for a conservation charity, his father, Stanley, a prominent “green Tory”, as well as friends such as Zac Goldsmith, the former owner of the Ecologist magazine.

This is the man who came to power promising to get Brexit done, but then signed a deal barely any different to that of Theresa May’s, leaving Northern Ireland in the EU regulatory sphere. This is the man who said, on the matter of the Dover invasion:

‘The point I would just make to people thinking of making this journey – one, it is very hazardous, you may think the weather looks great but it’s a very, very dangerous thing to do. ‘The second thing is – we will send you back. The UK should not be regarded as a place where you could automatically come and break the law by seeking to arrive illegally. ‘If you come illegally, you are an illegal migrant and I’m afraid the law will treat you as such.’

We are now sending out border force boats to escort illegal immigrants ashore and putting them up in hotels.

If that’s what Tories believe is the best they can muster then it’s time to simply give up on them. This government has no intention of stopping the dinghies or taking on the blob so that we can deport those with no right to be here. We will not see and end to the green taxes on our energy bills, and if they were going to invoke Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol they would have by now.

Moreover, if Britain is to avoid a long term decline then energy needs to be as cheap as we can possibly make it, utilising our domestic reserves. We need to be on war footing to make up for decades of policy neglect. But while the PM’s former mistress is calling the shots, that simply isn’t going to happen. Nor are we likely to see any reform of rules which allow unaccountable NGOs to block new power stations through the courts.

Johnson was elected to turn the ship of state around, not steer it back to the 2012 centrist consensus. He has abandoned his base, taken them for fools, and reneged on every single promise. If Johnson is unable and unwilling to do the job he was elected to do, and half his party opposes him in such an attempt, then he and is party are not owed the benefit of the doubt. The Tories have failed and Johnson is a loser.

When it comes to it, the Tories are deeply in bed with the green lobby, and many of them have a financial interest in inflicting useless windmills and solar panels on the nation. There is no reason to believe Gove or Truss would take on the green blob or the open borders NGOcracy. Even less so for Rishi Sunak who is closer to Ed Miliband than Margaret Thatcher.

The short of it is that the Tories won’t take on the establishment because they are an arm of it. Nobody should have expected the Conservative Party to behave any differently. It has a long record of turning on its voters. The only way to get the country back on track is to stop voting for establishment parties. Between them they’ve again closed ranks to deny us a say on a pivotal issue (Net Zero) and rendered our votes meaningless on issues that matter to us – as though Brexit never happened. Are you really prepared to tolerate this insult any further? If not, join UKIP.

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