The main purpose historically of the Conservative Party
is to conserve. Rather like the RSPB protects birds the Conservative party is supposed
to protect Britain. Protecting Britain involves defending our island against its
enemies, which requires us to have a strong defence and a serious of alliances
with friendly nations. Britain now has a very weak defence. Our armed forces
are tiny and relatively powerless compared to how they were historically. But
perhaps more importantly protecting Britain means protecting our quality of
life and preserving those aspects of living here that most of our citizens
love. It is here too that the Conservative Party has failed to conserve.
Conservative voters want to live in pleasant towns and
cities amongst other British people where politeness is the norm, crime rare
and a decent standard of living is reasonably easy to obtain if you work hard
at school and then go to work.
People are content with relatively little. A house, a
family, enough food, a garden, a park nearby, the ability to drive to work
cheaply, and go on holiday to the Mediterranean once a year.
If the Conservative Party could give British people up
and down the country an economy that gradually improves, peace and prosperity
and otherwise leave them alone it would continue to win most elections. But it
hasn’t. It has failed in its mission to conserve.
The West is faced with three main external threats,
Russia, China and radical Islam. We must contain these by spending sufficiently
on defence and maintaining our technological advantage over opponents. But if
America goes back to isolationism under Trump, Britain and indeed Europe in general
would struggle to deter anyone.
But the threat from China and Russia is a limited
threat because it is external. The threat from radical Islam is not merely that
it is in Yemen, or Gaza or Iran. We can contain these threats because we can
identify them. The real danger is that radical Islam is here and we cannot
distinguish between the radical and the non-radical because the ideology is
essentially the same.
It is here above all that the Conservative Party has
failed to conserve, because it has added a threat to our security that simply
did not exist in 1914 or 1939 and could not even have been imagined then.
It was being an island that meant we were kept free
from invasion apart from 1066 and arguably 1688. While every country on the
continent suffered invasion, and occupation and changes to its borders due to
war we avoided this. No one could invade us so long as we had a strong navy.
Even in World War II with our army defeated and shattered we were never
seriously threatened with invasion.
But now being an island has for the first time in our
history become a disadvantage. We cannot build a fence in the sea and anyone who
arrives on a British beach no matter who he is, where he is from or what his
intentions are will be allowed to stay forever. Not only this. We will pay him
to do so.
It is this above all that is leading Conservative
voters to desert the Conservative Party. They look around and see their towns
and cities transformed beyond all recognition. The buildings may be the same,
but everything else is changed. Your job Conservative Party was to conserve our
way of life and you failed.
Brexit was above all a rebellion against the feeling
that we could do nothing to stop our country changing in ways that we opposed.
It was a hope for millions of British voters that they would gain some control
over not merely our borders, but our government and that this government would
listen to the concerns of ordinary voters. The Conservative Party is being
punished above all because it gave us hope and then dashed that hope.
British society developed over many centuries and was
characterised historically by migrations of Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons,
Normans and others. But in the thousand years since the Conquest the mix of the
British population was static. Where there was migration, it was on a small
scale and easily absorbed.
It is perfectly possible to believe that limited
migration from anywhere in the world brings us people with useful skills and is
perfectly compatible with conserving the essential character of Britain.
But unlimited migration which the Conservative Party
has not only allowed by failing to control our borders, but also by allowing
hundreds of thousands of people to arrive legally with visas is gradually
changing our country beyond all recognition.
We must treat each new arrival pleasantly and
politely. He has the right to live and work here legally and it is quite wrong
to treat him badly.
But the nature of British society is quite different
from that of the United States. We were until the 1950s a homogenous society whose
population had remained largely unchanged for a thousand years. We were not
like the United States a society in any reasonable sense a nation of immigrants.
But it was just this that gave the British people its characteristics.
It was just this that gave us our way of life. It was the Conservative Party’s
job to conserve this and it failed.
Life is not better now than it was when the
Conservative party came to power in 2010. Educational standards have fallen
through grade inflation. It is harder to see a doctor now than it was. We have
had high inflation and seen our standard of living decline due to the cost-of-living
crisis. We have been locked up at home for nearly two years and we have seen
woke ideas which even in 2010 would have been considered mad become so mainstream
that we have to be careful when disagreeing with them lest the police charge us
with a hate crime.
The British people are continually attacked by the public
bodies that have come to power during the present Conservative government for daring
to live in our own country and liking it the way it is. Even our countryside is
called racist and colonialist as if it was us who colonised our green and pleasant
land. Well maybe my family did colonise it, but it would have been when the
Celts and then the Anglo-Saxons arrived.
Conservatives are going to continue to desert the
Conservative Party not because we think it will be better under Labour. It may
well be worse. But when a political party fails to do its job in a democracy
you have to kick it out and hope for something better.
I think the present Conservative Party is going to be annihilated
this year and deservedly so. Indeed, better so. The only hope left is that a
party emerges that is willing to do what is necessary to defend our country and
conserve what is left. It is clear now that the Conservatives will conserve
nothing.
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