Perry De Havilland is in my view a quality liberty minded thinker. I may not always agree with him but his arguments are always worth considering and listening to. He’s spoken before about how the Tories have basically shafted themselves over their policies and over the debacle of the election of Liz Truss as leader followed shortly afterwards by her defenestration by Wet Tories and replacement by Rishi Sunak. Therefore I was unsurprised but pleased to see that Mr De Havilland has come out publicly and said that they are abandoning the Conservative Party on the grounds that it is not even remotely conservative any more.
Mr De Havilland said:
Voting Tory in last general election was essential when the alternative was Corbyn, the most odious mainstream politician since Oswald Mosley (for some of the same reasons). But Keir Starmer is just another dreary Blairite, he’s Jeremy Hunt without the unfortunate China connections. Then the choice is vote for Blue Blairites who likes high taxes and ruinous green policies, or Red Blairites who likes high taxes, ruinous green policies, and don’t know what a woman is. On the plus side, Labour have Diane Abbott, who can take over Boris’ role providing comic relief.
So, I will be voting Reform UK, because at this point, I couldn’t care less which flavour of technocratic Blairite is in Downing Street. Jeremy Hunt and his ilk can get stuffed. Sure, Labour will get in and it won’t be pretty unless ginger growlers are your thing. But perhaps, just perhaps, utterly burning the Tories to the ground might let something better emerge from the ashes.
I must say that I find I don’t disagree with Mr DeHavilland. There used to be good reasons to vote Tory either because a voter was favourable to the policies of the Tories or to stop the greater danger of a Labour government. The problem is these reasons and these differences between the parties no longer exist. They are, to use the phrase, just the same turds but merely with different gravy poured over them. Whether we vote Tory or Labour we are still stuffed and stuck with similar policies. That’s not a choice, that is a dilemma. There’s now no reason to choose the Tories so why not choose something else, maybe something better, even if it comes at the cost of Sir Keir Starmer and his troupe of clowns in charge of the UK government?
Even I don’t always agree with me 😉
Welcome to Fahrenheit211 Mr DeHavilland. Like you I’m done with voting for a Tory party that doesn’t seem to have anything to offer me or mine.
I hope the newer parties will come to some agreement that only one of them stands against Lib/Lab/Con is each constituency. That should reduce the number of those bastards.
Agree there that there must be some co-ordination. There should also be some consideration given to what seats to put the most effort into.
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I can’t think of any reason to vote Tory in today’s world. In fact given the way they have as a party and in my case as individual MPs deserted the voters I will certainly be voting against them. As an ashamed one time Tory party member and activist I will probably vote Reform if they stand a candidate but in all honesty how could any party be worse than the ongoing pantomime that is today’s Tory party? With respect to Fahrenheit’s view that Labour could be worse I just can’t see how and at least my useless self serving Tory MP would be out of a job.
One of my primary reasons for voting Tory in 2019 was of course Brexit and the fact that Labour was led by someone who has my interests at heart as much as Oswald Mosley did but also because I wanted some improvement in the free speech situation. On this as in much else the Tories have not delivered and will make things much worse with their internet censorship bill.