// Thoughts for July
on, those who disagree) Socialist thought-police will quickly get up to speed with those moderates suddenly supporting a far left agenda as if they always had. The hijacking of the Labour brand by the militants is complete; shame on those moderates whose thirst for the aphrodisiac of power now makes them compliant serfs in the Kingdom of the Fascism of the Hard-left.
6. "It was the Yoof wot won it!" The Tories have represented Canterbury after every election since 1832! It went Labour on 8th June. Labour did brilliantly in every university town (just ask Nick Clegg in Sheffield). Get the students and the under-25’s to register, then promise the abolition of tuition fees, (evidently university education is free, no-one pays for it at all!) and then get the Yoof out from under their duvets and into the polling booths. It worked a treat!
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So we have a Minority Government supported by the Ulster Unionists. Well, we're all taking notice of Northern Ireland politics now! The PM is helped by the fact that the seven Sinn Fein MPs won't be taking their seats, so the necessity is to deliver 326 minus 7 seats to have a majority and the Tories are one short of that! (Remember Kensington!)
There's a return to Big Two Party Politics. Both Conservatives and Labour got over 40% of the popular vote, for the first time since 1970.
Did No 10 ever think they would be thanking their lucky stars for Scotland?!
Ruth Davidson ran a brilliant campaign. "Do you want a 2nd Referen- dum? No. Do you want those complacent, single-issue Nationalists to be taught a lesson? Yes. Then vote Conservative." Simple. Effective. Just ask Alex Salmond. But it is interesting that the neither of the leaders of the two main protagonists in Scottish Westminster politics are MPs.
So people think there'll now be a ‘Soft Brexit’, with the UK staying in the Single Market. Quite how that is squared with having control of our borders and our judges not submitting to Luxembourg (surely what people voted for, if nothing else) remains to be seen.
It is in no-one's interests that there is another general election; the country is electioned out. Any party that forces one (whatever they may say now) will be punished at the polls. Scotland has had seven elections in seven years! The Tories do not want a bout of ritual blood-letting in a leadership contest either.
Next year the recommendations of the Boundary Commission will be implemented. This rectifies the effects on population per constituency of changing demographics and movement of people. It will favour the Tories by some 20 seats. Some might ask why on earth Mrs May didn't wait to ask for her own mandate until after then, but that's complacency for you.
The Coup failed. Marxist John McConnell is not Chancellor of the Exchequer this morning and we are not looking down the double barrels of high taxes and unaffordable spending, but as the Iron Duke observed, “twas a damn close-run thing".
So Theresa May will run the country, in my view, until the end of the Brexit negotiations – who'd want that job?! Then she will step aside (job done) and a new Tory leader will call a general election in, say, 2020. Ah, you may say, but isn't that when May's original term and majority of at least 12 would have ended?
Quite so. Lord Digby Jones / 61 Find solution on page 129
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