THE cast iron lesson of political history is that socialist governments always, always leave the country in a worse mess than they find it.
And until David Cameron and Boris Johnson came along, it was always the Tories who cleaned up afterwards.
‘Sir Shifty’ arrived as Prime Minister on a manifesto of smoke and mirrors, fraudulent promises and calculated deceitGetty
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This explains why voters put Conservatives in power for most of the last century.
Then came the 14 years of suicidal carnage when a couple of arrogant Old Etonians decided they could copy Labour, print money and import cheap labour to pay the bills.
On July 4 last year, the nation held its nose and, in a spasm of self-destructive revenge, put their faith in the man Boris dubbed “Captain Crasheroonie Snoozefest”.
Within months, Britain was being ravaged by a gang of vengeful race warriors under the most unscrupulous dud ever to enter Downing Street as PM.
Today, Keir Starmer is the humiliated hostage of a loony left-wing party bent on social and cultural revolution — with four more years to run.
Smoke and mirrors
And it falls to Kemi Badenoch to prove her Tory Party has recovered from its decade of madness and win back the trust of millions of fleeing supporters.
It’s a tough call. Thanks to Starmer and five blundering Tory PMs, Nigel Farage has mopped up swarms of angry voters who are fed up with being lied to.
“Sir Shifty” arrived as Prime Minister on a manifesto of smoke and mirrors, fraudulent promises and calculated deceit.
Many warned we were handing over the UK to wolves in sheep’s clothing.
Fabled “Prince of Darkness” Peter Mandelson expressed private dismay at Starmer’s refusal to come clean with voters.
His deepest fears may have been exceeded by what looks like the irreversible destruction of our social fabric by Labour’s rag-bag army of barmy cults and pro-Gaza thugs.
Buyers’ remorse set in as voters witnessed the emergence of relentlessly divisive politics and whining race and gender lobbies.
Sun readers wrote in about mindless stabbings, the rape of young girls and incessant muggings on the streets of Sadiq Khan’s dystopian capital city.
‘Sir Shifty’ arrived as Prime Minister on a manifesto of smoke and mirrors, fraudulent promises and calculated deceit
Yet while criminals run rampant, free speech police are busy banging up innocent citizens for Orwellian “non-crime hate incidents”.
Only those who hate this country — and there are some — can watch unmoved as TV cameras capture yet another brimming dinghy unloaded mid-Channel on to Border Force taxis.
Millions of once-loyal BBC taxpayers have stopped listening to the whingeing public sector, previously known as the Today Programme.
The TimesIt falls to Kemi Badenoch to prove her Tory Party has recovered from its decade of madness and win back the trust of millions of fleeing supporters[/caption]
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Thank goodness for the voices of common sense on Talk and Times Radio.
So what can we do about Labour’s point blank refusal to guard our borders and make our streets safe again?
It’s time the Tories stopped feeling guilty and started coming up with answers . . . plausible traditional policies on defence, sound economics and safe streets.
Since taking over as leader nine months ago, Kemi Badenoch has been quietly rebuilding the public’s shattered trust.
She hit the target yesterday with a powerful attack on former state prosecutor Starmer’s reluctance to stage a full-scale national probe into Pakistani rape gangs.
This is a revolting national scandal — still ongoing — involving Labour council chiefs and complicit police.
There are plenty more issues the Tories can use to attack Labour. But the polls speak for themselves.
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It is Reform leader Farage who is stealing the headlines after turning his slightly bonkers one-man band into a political pop sensation.
And he is doing so by poaching once-sacred Tory brands — defence, crime and, with less credibility, economics.
He is free to promise the earth on border controls, rape gangs and migrant hostels.
And he has earned the right to fight EU bullies and meddling European judges.
Mrs Badenoch is hamstrung by Tory MPs still confused about Britain’s role outside the EU.
And she has just promoted Sir James Cleverly, who is wobbly about quitting the ECHR.
Kemi must somehow repair the damage, galvanise her MPs and turn them once again into a realistically credible party of government
As Kemi struggles to capture attention, Farage has displaced Tony Blair as the political messiah who once hypnotised David Cameron, George Osborne and Michael Gove.
Blair was the Pied Piper who lured the Tories to their doom. But he was a snake oil salesman.
Farage might also turn out to be a fairground huckster. But he is the man of this particular moment, the ultimate vote-whisperer.
Angry and betrayed voters are ditching the two main parties and swarming to support Reform.
Social dilapidation
The revolt will grow each time a fresh boatload of military-aged and unvetted young men checks into four-star hotel rooms with free phones and instant access to the NHS.
And it will explode beyond control as law-abiding citizens are rounded up for voicing alarm about sex crimes while two-tier police act as escorts to masked pro-migrant protesters.
Voters are justly resentful about soaring taxes, idle public servants on fat-cat pay and pensions, and the 9million working-age men and women living on state benefits.
They are fed up with rivers of raw sewage, crippling energy bills and shirk-from-home public servants.
But the overwhelming problem for Kemi Badenoch and the Tories is that much of this social dilapidation began or even increased under Cameron, May, Boris, Truss and Sunak.
It might indeed have been worse if Labour had been in power over those 14 years, especially during the Covid pandemic. But they weren’t.
The Tories were mismanaging the country.
Kemi must somehow repair the damage, galvanise her MPs and turn them once again into a realistically credible party of government.
Otherwise the Conservatives face political extinction as triumphant Farage smashes the political mould and storms to power in four years’ time.
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