Thick Lizzie Trickle has lost control of her cabinet, the economy and the pound. Trust has gone, the government is at war and focussed entirely on itself. Now, their main political aim is damage limitation, with knives sharpened for a bloodbath of blame.
It’s hard to understand how BI is processing all this – the way the party has collapsed and crumbled to the point where the Tories are finished. It must be hard to do unless Stockholm Syndrome has deadened his response, and that’s why after 12 years of government incompetence the only defence is with arguments that are bizarre, misleading and unsupported by evidence.
But for those who vote for the blue lot ‘religiously’ i.e. without thinking, there is a question they should ask, which is ‘just what has happened to the Conservative Party, how on earth did it come to this?’