Until we understand just why the electorate is so sick of us, the chances of the Conservatives recovering any time soon are miniscule, however awful the election result.
We have a traditional compact with voters. They might suspect that we are self-promoting posh boys and money-grabbing wotsits, in politics for no good reasons. But if we are bstards, at least we have been competent bstards, ritually elected to clean up after Labour’s habitually profligate compassion. The last few years have ruined that. Without competency, we are just b*stards.
Quite an amazing thing to see coming from a Tory. It’s like arguing “at least the trains ran on time”, except the Tories can’t manage that.
And “Labour’s habitually profligate compassion”? Things like reducing hospital waiting times? I suppose they did work hard to reverse that.
Not only did the Italian Fascists not make the trains run on time, the German Autobahn was created and planned out by the Weimar Republic, and the Spanish Miracle was the liberal nations investing in Spain to fix all the damage caused by the civil war the fascists started and invented several war crimes in (a bribery scheme so Franco would stop still doing war crimes after he was forced to admit autarky is a moronic idea).
So whenever someone drops that “trains running on time” argument seriously and not to mock conservative idiots, feel free to hit them in the head with a brick.
Indeed:
Quite an amazing thing to see coming from a Tory. It’s like arguing “at least the trains ran on time”, except the Tories can’t manage that.
And “Labour’s habitually profligate compassion”? Things like reducing hospital waiting times? I suppose they did work hard to reverse that.
Just a note for people who don’t know:
Not only did the Italian Fascists not make the trains run on time, the German Autobahn was created and planned out by the Weimar Republic, and the Spanish Miracle was the liberal nations investing in Spain to fix all the damage caused by the civil war the fascists started and invented several war crimes in (a bribery scheme so Franco would stop still doing war crimes after he was forced to admit autarky is a moronic idea).
So whenever someone drops that “trains running on time” argument seriously and not to mock conservative idiots, feel free to hit them in the head with a brick.
That line about competent bastards is running right through the Tory party at the moment.
Saatchi - former party chairman and the guy who came up with “labour isn’t working” has been saying the same thing.
It’s interesting that their response to this is always “we should be more competent” and never “we should stop being bastards”.