The zombie party

What are we to make of the death agonies of the Conservative Party which has dominated the news during the past few months? This was a political force which gained an eighty seat majority less than three years ago. Yet it has now become an embarrassing international joke, with prime ministers, chancellors and other cabinet ministers arriving and departing in double quick time. The journalist Peter Hitchens has previously dismissed the Tories as ‘the zombie party’, and recent events have confirmed the accuracy of his analysis. So how has this once stable and powerful political party been reduced to such a pitiful state?

The problem with the Conservative Party is that it hasn’t been remotely conservative since the mid 1960s, and even then was beginning to show signs of appeasing its political critics rather than defending traditional core values. The Tories have presided over a gradual incremental process of surrender. This post attempts to outline how they increasingly started to dance to the tune of their opponents, rather than provide much needed opposition to the pernicious and subversive agenda propounded by the highly vocal, cultural Marxist left.

So briefly, over the years the Tories have failed to support grammar schools and academic excellence, they have allowed open ended third world immigration that has created ethnic ghettoes, they have encouraged no fault divorce which has resulted in millions of broken families, they have pandered to the vocal homosexual lobby by introducing same sex ‘marriage’, endorsed gay pride parades and indoctrination in schools. They have presided over a vast range of intrusive equalities legislation which privileges minorities, endorsed so called ‘hate crimes’ which suppress free speech, accepted the transgender agenda which defies biological reality, embraced the climate change hoax with the unattainable and burdensome net zero target, and introduced totalitarian measures to curb personal freedom during the covid epidemic.

All of these are contrary to traditional conservative values, and by adopting them the Tories have made themselves indistinguishable from their political opponents, but with one big difference. Labour, Liberal Democrats, Greens and Scottish & Welsh Nationalists all believe in these policies, whereas the Conservatives have been dragooned into supporting them because of their cowardice in not standing up to the intimidation of the politically correct left, through their campaign of abuse, employing pejorative slogans such as racist, homophobia etc, to silence opposition.

On economic affairs the Conservatives record has been poor with periods of high unemployment, soaring inflation, prolonged austerity and low growth. Currently they cannot make up their minds whether to pursue an irresponsible dash for growth or to deflate the economy through public spending cuts. On energy, their policies have made no sense, closing scores of dependable coal fired power stations and replacing them with unreliable sources such as wind and solar. They have privatised natural monopolies such as water, electricity and gas, replacing them with remote cartels offering a fake competition supervised by a toothless bureaucracy. They have replaced a unitary passenger rail system with a state subsided, impenetrable labyrinthine structure.

As a consequence of the Tories ineptitude Labour now has an unassailable lead in the opinion polls with the near certain result that they will win the next general election. The only real achievement during the Conservatives time in government was leaving the European Union. This is now at risk since there is nothing to prevent an exultant Labour Party from overturning their current policy of accepting the result of the referendum. Such is their poll lead they can now successfully campaign on a promise to rejoin the EU and still achieve a significant majority. They are very unlikely to pass over such an opportunity given the huge support for the EU amongst their activists.

So the recent meltdown of the Conservative Party will result in a Labour government for an extended period of time, that will very likely reverse Brexit and introduce yet more oppressive restrictions on individual freedoms in pursuit of their subversive identity politics agenda. Meanwhile ‘the zombie party’, through its incompetence, has disenfranchised huge swathes of the British electorate.