Former prime minister Mr Johnson has dissected his party’s performance in his Daily Mail column, saying the reasons why the Tories lost so many MPs were “complex” - but “the Yucatan asteroid in this catastrophe was obvious: it was Reform”.
Mr Johnson claimed to have heard from one Tory MP who “fully expected to win” but realised at the last minute “thousands” of Tory voters were opting for Reform, which in turn gave Labour a majority over both rivals.
“Repeat that phenomenon across the political landscape, and you begin to grasp the cause of the landslide,” he added, before turning his attention to Mr Farage.
He wrote: “I am afraid that the cheroot-puffing Pied Piper of Clacton has played a significant part - as he no doubt intended - in the destruction of the Tory government.”
Mr Johnson then offered advice for the Tories, while alluding to his own exit from Downing Street in June 2022.
“When we get back in, don’t be too hasty to get rid of successful election-winning leaders,” he said.
“As I never tire of telling people, some polls put us only two or three points behind, in the days before I was forced to resign in what was really a media-driven hoo-ha.”
So no-one else to blame BoJo 🤡? Perhaps someone who spent their time in office dicking about causing the deaths of thousands and eroding trust in politics for a generation?
Like Boris’s hands are clean…geeze
Cameron burned the thing down with Brexit, and Johnson pissed on the ashes
At least Nigel Farage has done something good for once.
…and so it begins…
The Tories opposed electoral reform in 2011, so they only have themselves to blame for the first-past-the-post wipeout. 2/3 of the country voted for a non-Labour party on Thursday, so discontent will continue to grow, and Reform will perform even better in five years time. You reap what you sow.
When will this used q-tip looking loser go away
Did his hair get worse??
Can it? i imagine it’s just differently awful.
I fear he’s succumbing to the deadliest disease known to man - male pattern baldness.
I’m bald.
Many people are. Stay strong.
Can’t someone give him a comb or a brush or something? Maybe a hat?
Or a bag.
A plastic one
It’s a choice. He deliberately messes it up more when he’s about to be in front of the press.
So the fault was nothing to do with lying criminals arseholes who assume laws they create only apply to commoners.
But instead another party that gives the fascists who vote for them, a democratic alternative.
Entitled fucking arseholes, the lot of them.
I love that, by his own analogy, he has implied that Tory voters are either rats or children. Hating the image of Nigel playing a flute (or a pipe, I guess?) either way
Hey, rats are sociable, clean and friendly. Don’t lump them in with children like that!
I know that they’ve been in power for 14 years, but the writing was on the wall for the Tories when they chose May. She empowered the right, and allowed BoJo to not only seize control, but to utterly purge the party of actual conservatives. Now that the Tories have been decimated, many of the established names in the party that were favourites to lead from both the right and the central ground lost their seats. The worst thing the Tories ever did was push the Brexit vote and then subsequently let the right get power, as they now face an existential threat for an entire generation.
For the Americans here, this is the one silver lining of Trump. In the same way that the surprise of the Brexit vote signalled the rise of Trump, you could potentially look at how the cult of personality around Brexit destroyed the Tories and see parallels to the Republicans. They’ve tied themselves solely to Trump, and if he were to lose there’s no real candidate that could realistically unite the country AND win the support of Trump (who will probably run again in 4 years time). He’s cast a shadow that has eclipsed the growth of right-leaning politics, damaging conservatism for the future.
He’s not the only saying it, but he’s right. The reason Labour won was because the Right was split. Its about time, the Left’s been split for ages. Of course, even better would be proportional representation. Let’s see if that ever happens.
Yes, that bastard baited you morons into it.
You morons still fucking did it.
The root problem remains any form of “voters shifted from X to Y, so of course Z won.” Your elections are broken. Use ranked ballots and count them properly.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Boris Johnson says Nigel Farage played a “significant” role in the “destruction” of the Tories – while taking a swipe at those who ousted him from Number 10 back in 2022.
Former prime minister Mr Johnson has dissected his party’s performance in his Daily Mail column, saying the reasons why the Tories lost so many MPs were “complex” - but “the Yucatan asteroid in this catastrophe was obvious: it was Reform”.
He wrote: “I am afraid that the cheroot-puffing Pied Piper of Clacton has played a significant part - as he no doubt intended - in the destruction of the Tory government.”
Speaking on Sky News, Conservative peer Lord Patten said: "This is the oldest party in democratic history and it’s now been reduced to rubble by awful fractures and lousy policies and a collapse of any sense of values.
As Sir Keir Starmer and the Labour Party settle into government, the Tories are facing a leadership election after Rishi Sunak announced his resignation.
Candidates are yet to officially declare if they’ll run to replace Mr Sunak, but MPs expected to put themselves forward include former cabinet ministers Kemi Badenoch, Suella Braverman and James Cleverly.
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