Is the Conservative Party imploding because of Sunak’s leadership victory?
[Image: The Agitator/Twitter].
Rishi Sunak has been elected unopposed as party leader, and is soon to be invited to be prime minister by King Charles III. We know that.
Some of us suspect that this was a result of behind-the-scenes shenanigans. Boris Johnson withdrew, despite having enough nominations (more on that elsewhere, possibly). And Penny Mordaunt may feel justifiably robbed of the nominations from Tory MPs who supported Johnson instead of her (while they may feel cheated out of having him on the ballot paper).
But it seems that nobody feels quite as scorned by the process as the Conservative Party membership – the rank-and-file members without whom the organisation cannot function.
It seems many of them are so incensed by the way they have been treated – cheated, maybe, out of electing a new leader – that they are pulling up their stumps and leaving, with former Brexit party Reform UK as their likely new home.
(Interesting, that. Has the dog-wagging tail of the Tory Party been a single-issue group all along?)
On Twitter, the outrage has been palpable:
There’s a massive storm about to erupt here, members denied a vote on the leader of the party & their Prime Minister … id expect another mass cancellation of memberships from the @Conservatives party.
They are in trouble. Big trouble.
— Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 (@EssexPR) October 23, 2022
https://twitter.com/andie1105/status/1584289360597245953
Thanks Rishi and Boris
Member numbers soaring for @reformparty_uk in last 2 hours since Boris pulled out
— Richard Tice 🇬🇧 (@TiceRichard) October 23, 2022
https://twitter.com/sophielouisecc/status/1584311157803753472
I am not sure members of the @Conservativesare are taking well to being told what to do by the media, the parliamentary Tory party or by self appointed political pressure groups.
I suspect thy can think for themselves.— Alastair Stewart (@AlStewartOBE) October 24, 2022
It seems veteran broadcaster Alastair Stewart is right – Tory Party members can think for themselves – although that thinking seems to extend only as far as the nearest Brexiteering right-wing party.
That should sink both the Tories and Reform UK.
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Good. Hopefully it will split the vote and give some other party a chance.
Do you really think that the so-called 120 nominations for Johnson was more than a face saving bluff ?
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