Posted on 05/04/2019 1:41:04 PM PDT by Twotone
Anyone who has had any truck with UK Tories over the decades knows that large numbers of them are devious, duplicitous, slimy, oleaginous, frankly repellent and utterly treacherous. But it didn't matter because, when all else failed, their selling point was competence. After less than three years of Theresa May they're now in the difficult position of having to market a not obviously winning combination of incompetence-and-betrayal.
Thursday's local elections in England were the first test of this new strategy. The Conservative Party lost over 1,300 seats. To Nigel Farage's Brexit Party? No. His month-old party was not on the ballot. To Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party? No. Labour managed to lose seats itself, and in fact its share of the vote was no higher than the Tories - 28 per cent. In effect, Theresa May managed to lose to no one. If she were facing no one on Centre Court at Wimbledon, she would still get totaled in straight sets.
The custom among metropolitan party bigwigs after a clobbering in the local or Euro votes is to say that none of these other elections matter a jot or tittle. They're just "protest votes". All that counts is the national election for the national parliament at Westminster - because that's when voters are deciding who actually governs the country. This time round there are two problems with that traditional analysis: First, the central issue for Tory electors is the party's inability to govern, in the sense of being able to effect the most consequential issue before it. And secondly this month's European elections are a literal protest vote, pure and simple.
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“devious, duplicitous, slimy, oleaginous, frankly repellent and utterly treacherous.”
He forgot retromingent.
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For a second, I thought he was talking about U.S. Democrats.
SSDC (country)
The British once had a great Empire. Now that they’ve lost it, the British government has no other people to exploit, overtax, misgovern, and arrogantly defy its stated wishes such as leaving Europe (Brexit) than its own British citizens.
So British citizens have “rebelled” by voting out the ruling Tories and Labour in their local governments, but the government in London will continue to exploit, overtax, misgovern, and arrogantly defy them until they vote the Tories and Labour out of Parliament. But that won’t happen until the ruling party, the Tories, deigns to call a national election, which they may refuse to do. So how will the British people gain their freedom?
Oikophobic, too.
My ex girlfriend always accused me of being oleaginous.I thought that she was just making fun of my love of margarine.
The British had a great Empire, so did the French, Spanish, portuguese, Romans, Macedonians, Assyrians etc. etc. that’s history now.
The Scots can get their freedom now :)
Polish and Lithuanians did, too.
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