Patrick O’Flynn is a writer that even when I do not agree wholly with what he writes nearly always makes me think and gives food for thought. However one of his more recent articles for the Spectator magazine where he asks where are the conservatives in the Conservative Party is one that I wholly concur with.

I struggle to see anything about the Tories that is recognisably conservative. Their economic and energy policies just look like Labour or Lib Dem policies with a different badge slapped upon them. The Tories cannot come to grips with or control the leftisim and leftist activists in our public services and have thrown women and children under the bus when it comes to the gender identity cult. They can’t control the borders and cannot even claim, as they once did, that they are trustworthy stewards of the economy. They cannot even stand for the idea of traditional families so deep are the Tories mired in leftist family policy.

Mr O’Flynn said:

Johnson never made a speech about family policy in his three years in Downing Street, perhaps because he had started so many families himself. But Rishi Sunak also appears reluctant to speak up for marriage and the benefits to children of growing up in stable two-parent families.

Sunak was exposed as a fence-sitter on social policy matters earlier this year when, as Chancellor, he was pressed by the radio presenter Julia Hartley-Brewer to give his definition of a woman but refused to endorse her suggestion of ‘an adult human female’.

Mr O’Flynn’s article makes for a worthwhile but depressing read for those who voted Tory in the past as he’s shown that voting for today’s Conservative Party doesn’t deliver policies that are conservative but merely rehashed and rebadged Lib Dem ones. If I wanted Lib Dem policies then I’d vote for the Lib Dems, but I don’t, I want recognisably conservative policies and that seems to be the one thing that we are not getting from Britain’s Conservative Party.