The Conservatives had a cunning plan.... and it is working
I wholeheartedly hope this is not true, just a joke in bad taste!It is an article by Robert Taylor published in the Telegraph yesterday. I will copy-paste a few paragraphs as it is behind a paywall.The Tories have learnt from Julia Donaldson and P G Wodehouse. Make things worse — and everyone will be relieved when they return to normalOh my, those Tories are clever. I assumed they’d finally gone bananas when they gave the top job to Liz Truss. But no, I now realise they were just toying with us. Playing with our minds for naked political gain. It was all part of the plan. A very clever plan too.........Clearly, this is the devilish trick that the Tories have just played on the nation. There’s no other explanation. By giving us Liz Truss for a few weeks, they dipped us into a muddy puddle of chaos, panic and instability. Borrowing costs shot up, the pound plummeted and we became a gigantic international laugh. Then, like that old lady, just when we were at our wits’ end and giving up on Britain entirely, they ditched Truss and installed the eminently sensible, likeable Sunak in her place......Cue huge relief. Gratitude, even. Oh, thank goodness, they’re saying. Oh, we’re so relieved. Thank you, Tories. Oh, thank you. Or something like that. At least some of them are.....And it’s working a treat for the Tories now, as we saw at PMQs today. Last week, those blue MPs were predicting the end. Their proud old party was finally dying. They were on the verge of a 1997-like wipe out. They were at each other’s throats like rabid dogs. And today? They were beaming with joy, hollering their support for Sunak, baying their disgust at Starmer, and, surprise, surprise, displaying all the relief of the little old lady after shoving her cow out. They got so excited that Lindsay Hoyle had to warn them not to “damage the furniture”. Damage the furniture? God knows what they were actually doing.The irony is that Labour has tried this trick a few times, with Michael Foot in the 1980s and more recently Jeremy Corbyn. But, typical of Labour, they keep getting it wrong by performing the ploy in opposition, when it clearly doesn’t work. Nobody was overcome with relief when Corbyn got heaved. The man never had a chance to do any actual damage. Liz Truss, on the other hand … well, let’s not open the wounds.....What it means is that the Tories are back in the game........Is that all it is?
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