- Mon Jun 10, 2024 10:56 am
#69679
I’m going to go for a different approach - the “Portillo” moment this time, if it happens, won’t be one person. It will be at a certain point in the night as the results come in, and it is clear that this isn’t just ‘bad results’ but that this is the effective end of the Conservative Party. You can’t hide behind spin or ‘I don’t recognise that description’ or promises to ‘learn’ from the message the electorate has sent you when the message is simply fuck off and die.
It’ll be the point of no return. When so many seats have been lost, all that remains are maniacs like Braverman, and the recognition on the faces of people like Brady, Frost, Mogg, Truss etc. cannot be disguised. No more big beasts, no more even bigger fish in a smaller pond - there is no pond. There is no deal to be done, no influence, no blocking legislation you don’t like.
They will finally, finally have irrefutable proof that they are all held responsible by the public, that most people no longer believe them, and not only that - that with Labour in power they will *be* held responsible in the legal sense. There will be empowered public inquiries, and investigations, and consequences.
That’s going to be the moment. Not when someone’s personal game is obviously up. But when they realise the *entire* game is up.