Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "Rishi concedes that a hung parliament is a possibility- he is wrong: his legacy will be much worse" video.

  1. Never has the expression, “You can’t polish a turd,” been more apt. Delusion and gaslighting just can’t cut it, even amongst the most, “loyal,” Tories. Braverman is gleeful, making her best play for leadership, which relies on the destruction of the current iteration of the Tories, so she’s as toxic as ever, but at least the people who created her are being forced to taste some of their own bitter brew. For Sunack, who will leave for America after the election; who has nothing to lose in terms of real power (being a money man on Wall Street gives him more power than leading a political party, and he knows it) he only has his ego to protect now. And we should not underestimate the power of that. He sees the spectre of the worst Tory defeat since the war, possibly ever. And that makes him dangerous. The American political wonks, who have their hooks deeply into our Tufton (sorry if I misspelled Tufton?) Street Tories, make public speeches in their country about the, “dangers of education,” and the Tories have actively taken up that message. They know it is only the uneducated who can be persuaded to vote against their own interests. Soon, teachers will be like doctors, only contactable by phone and social media, if we continue down this road. Much as I admire your call for Sunack’s Dickensian, Damascene conversion toward even the obvious, let alone a legacy of doing SOME good before he leaves, I fear the reality will be far more like the Black Adder version of A Christmas Carol, in which he will lose all of his last inclinations toward kindness and reason and simply try to leave as insoluble a mess as possible. The reasoning being that he will hope that no incoming government will be able to fix our problems, which will provide him with legacy excuses. If, “reason,” or rationality had ever been a factor in this government, we would not be where we are now. Instead of practical, rational, good faith policy making we’ve seen nothing but opposition baiting, emotive and emotional cruelty and victimising of the most helpless members of society. We’ve seen public services quite callously exploited, looted and eviscerated, from our water supply to health, policing and education. And now Sunack proposes doing away with National Insurance!? It’s like he’s TRYING to alienate the last bastion of solid support he might have expected to count on! The elderly! Is he going to raise retirement to 75? It looks that way. Not that he’ll ever get the chance. But the Tories have emptied the public purse and are desperately scrambling to find ANY source of income that does NOT involve taking money from the very richest people in society or offending the client press’s sensibilities. I don’t envy the next Labour government. I just hope that they would have the character and good sense to form a coalition, regardless of their numbers, so that we really can, “work together as a nation,” as you said, and put a PR system in place, whilst we solve the nation’s problems collectively. And I pray that includes some accountability for those callous criminal goons who ran the postal service’s scamming machines and ruined honest people’s lives. Sorry for going on. That was not my intention. You really do get me thinking hard. People like you give me hope that not all is lost. Thank you, if you read all of this. And thank you anyway. Your service, this channel, is a jewel in YouTube’s crown.
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  2. And the only power Sunack retains, as the rest of the Tories sub-divide into their respective camps, hoping that their candidate becomes the new leader, is that power to slap an election on the party if they get too disloyal in the coming weeks. Any policy revolts will be met with, “Let’s put it to the nation then!” and that will keep them quiet, with diminishing returns as the clock ticks. I just keep thinking of Oliver Cromwell’s big day in Parliament. (I’m paraphrasing here, but) he just got so fed up one day he shouted, “For the love of God just go! Be gone! If you have any shame just leave! GTFOOH!” We just need one senior Tory with the courage to say that, or even read the quote out, and that would probably trigger an election. The fact is that it’s not even a question of, “no confidence,” in the leadership, OR any of his potential rivals. The nation has zero confidence in the party! And it would only take one front bencher of sufficient cabinet rank to say that quiet part out loud, and we can get on with the damned election and move on! God knows we have so much cleaning up to do . . .
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