Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "the conservative party is heading for annihilation-" video.

  1. Maybe he hopes the lengthy campaign period will be sufficient time to bury gaffs? I’m pretty sure your guess about yet another pending attempt at a palace coup has real credibility. His only defence from that was to threaten to call an election. And if that’s not sufficient, all he can do is pull the trigger. Now the traitors and plotters HAVE TO get behind him or go home, which several MP’s (Andrea Leadsom, et al) have. I would bet real money that future documentaries will be focussed on the fact that another confidence vote and attempt to replace Rishi was on the horizon and that he didn’t just call the election because of that, but the speculation will be that he actually took revenge and took the party down with him, deliberately. At the very least, certain, targeted members.
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  2. Yes, you touched it with a needle. This internal fight within the, “conservative,” movement has been such a long time coming. Since the days of Winston Churchill, the European project has been causing division with the Tory party, but has remained manageable so long as it was both a distant, background feature, in a landscape filled with more pressing issues, and the leadership was strong enough to whip their party into line behind their own vision. The referendum was blunder, but what resulted was the flare up wherein the competing visions of conservatism were finally put to the flame at a crucial moment when there was no leader with any vision and no sight of one on the horizon! That was further compounded by the moral bankruptcy of flinging open their doors to literally anybody who could win their seat due to their, “personality,” or, “performative,” populist politics. They no longer cared about their record, experience or background, so long as they could WIN, and they ended up with stiff necked grifters, with no vision beyond their own immediate, personal interests, or, “ideologues,” with the type of visions that would startle Oswald Mosley! And then they act all, “surprised,” when they found they couldn’t manage this pit of vipers, and stunned at the fact that these unmanageable newcomers acted like they OWNED the place and had the right to make demands! And while the last season of party, “leaders,” got progressively more bonkers and weaker at party discipline with each yank on the Westminster fruit machine handle, this influx of vipers started fighting each other instead of their opposite numbers, NAME CALLING anyone in the general public who didn’t agree with their extremist views, FROM THE DISPATCH BOX . . . REPEATEDLY, (without even the suggestion that the PM might even rein them in let alone discipline them!) and scrapping in the open, for all the press to see, over policies that were either objectively unworkable, or objectively cruel and un-British! And, as if the point needed to be made any more abundantly clear, at the moment Richie calls his election, five MP’s jump ship THAT SAME DAY! Any party with that kind of a record deserves its wilderness years. May they be long and painful for them, as their years in office were for us. It is to my great SHAME that I admit to voting for the Tories at the last election. Never, NEVER again. So long as ANY of this lot are around.
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  3. I just hope and pray that no one gets complacent and stays home instead of voting. Never say never in politics. Particularly with the bag of dirty tricks we’re all anticipating from Tories on the internet and in the media.
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  4. P.S. Congratulations on your YouTube award. I don’t really know what it means, but I’m guessing it’s to do with viewership numbers, which connotes your success. That pleases me no end. Sincere congrats, sir. P.P.S. “Things can only get wetter.” Priceless. Thanks for making me laugh.
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  5. Maybe he hopes the lengthy campaign period will be sufficient time to bury gaffs? I’m pretty sure your guess about yet another pending attempt at a palace coup has real credibility. His only defence from that was to threaten to call an election. And if that’s not sufficient, all he can do is pull the trigger. Now the traitors and plotters HAVE TO get behind him or go home, which several MP’s (Andrea Leadsom, et al) have. I would bet real money that future documentaries will be focussed on the fact that another confidence vote and attempt to replace Rishi was on the horizon and that he didn’t just call the election because of that, but the speculation will be that he actually took revenge and took the party down with him, deliberately. At the very least, certain, targeted members.
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