I conservatori sono responsabili dell’ascesa della riforma, dice Sir John Major

>Hitting out at his own party, Sir John said: “There have been too many internal squabbles. Crises have been handled poorly. The electorate believes we have taken them for granted.

Well lets not forget that the main reason for the Brexit referendum was Cameron trying to hold the Tory party together. Expect what happened was the moderates were kicked out by Boris, the total loonies are going to Reform, leaving just the loonies.

The underlying problem I have with pretty much every ‘moderate’ Tory who comes out with stuff like this, see Major, Rory Stewart, Osborne, May, Warsi, Soubry, whoever, is that they never deal with their own complicity in everything.

The seed of the Tories current problems lie in the 2010 election promise to cut net migration down to the tens of thousands. That was the primary bit of political red meat that was thrown to voters who thought migration was too high. It won over millions of voters who wanted to see levels come down, and voted Tory as a result.

It was a lie. It was always a lie. The Tories then never had any intention of even trying to deliver it. They didn’t even pretend to for half a decade, they just hid behind the EU.

That lie was what got them elected. It got them power and influence. That lie is why they became Ministers. Why they got the pensions.

The Tory party is literally nothing without the promise to cut migration. They last won election on a non-less than 100,000 mandate in 1992, when it would have been redundant as the numbers were around 60k.

I would go as far as saying I think the net-migration commitment is the most popular bit of their entire manifesto. Get rid of it, and there is basically nothing left.

The Tory moderates are basically like a gangsters wife. They pretend not to know what the source of their electoral success is, they pretend to be all prim and proper, and don’t ask any questions about all the shovels that go missing.

Reform…are the tories though.
They have more Tories in the party than in the tory party. They are rebranding after destroying their name.
They even keep trying to get rid of the human rights act like the Tories have been trying to do since pre 1994.

Major was a one-pump chump and should probably just enjoy his retirement in silence – this sort of nonsense doesn’t help anyone.

It’s remarkable how random Tory leaders are on migration. Major is apparently a moderate but net migration was 30k a year under his tenure, that is basically a Reform policy today. Theresa May was a moderate and is the only Tory leader for 30 years who has cut migration, from 300k to 200k. Boris was supposed to be a hard liner but increased it from 200k to 900k. Sunak was a moderate but introduced rules that cut migration after he left office. It’s like these people choose their policies at random and see no connection between their public persona and their actions.

Its because the Tories somehow managed to be both incompetent and not Conservative at the same time for the last 15 years.

Pushed many of their normal voters to Reform because .. what other option do they have?

I wish major and hesltine would shuffle off this mortal coil

No other Brit has done more damage to the UK in the last 50 years than Farage. Absolute traitor scum