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It's clearer than ever that Vote Leave Ltd was a bait and switch operation to preserve Tory incumbency. Now they're safe from the insurgency on the right they Tories are reverting to business as usual.
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The £350m schtick was less effective than challenging David Cameron's credibility and his failure to secure EU reforms but VL went with the former because Tory donors wouldn't permit blue on blue attacks. Vote Leave Ltd was always about saving the Tory establishment.
What Boris Johnson meant by "get Brexit done" was to bury Ukip/BP, sweep it all under the rug and carry on as if nothing had ever happened insofar as they could. Tories were quickly bored by it and want to leave it behind.
Unfortunately for them, they got high on their own supply of propaganda and haven't priced in the chaos/expense that goes with leaving the single market so it will come back to bite them. Like everything else they imagine they can simply throw money at it and the problems go away
But while they're losing the initiative, they think by reverting to a mushy centrist/interventionist party they can repeat Cameron's "detoxification" (which didn't actually work as they ended up in coalition with the Lib Dems). Tories never learn.
Meanwhile the ERG brigade don't actually care what Boris does (for now) just so long as they get an approximation of their no deal Brexit. Soon as they have that they'll start causing bother for Johnson and it's back to the usual internal bickering.
The Tory press with then start puffing up Sunak as the ideal centrist unifier to replace Johnson (hence them keeping him out of the fray) in the hope of reconstructing a post Brexit status quo which politically resembles pre-Brexit tax and spend politics.
Then they're back on track with eco-austerity, uselessly throwing money at wind turbines and train sets and taxing burgers and booze. It's all Westminster politics is capable of. Ineffectual meddling is a habitual instinct. Without an intellectual foundation, it's all the've got.
They're not going to challenge the woke virus in civil society institutions. They're not going to stop the boats of illegal immigrants. They're not going to meaningfully devolve power. They are not going to do anything remotely conservative. We are just going to coast along.
If you thought Boris and Cummings were going to "drain the swamp" you were born yesterday. They're just installing yes men and cronies to return favours. Cummings isn't there to attack the establishment. He's there to ensure its long term survival.
You can expect a few populist gestures to keep the grassroots happy, sort of like when you throw steaks laced with sleeping pills to the snarling guard dobermans so you can raid the warehouse by night. Works every single time. They'll keep voting Tory.
Ultimately conservatism is dead. You can either have a limp dicked centrist facade while Tory donors get their noses in the trough, or you can have the faux-thatcherite Tory right "free trade" morons pulling at levers without a clue what they do (lining their own pockets).
The grassroots won't be happy with Sunak so they'll put Patel up as their new iron lady, despite her track record of doing precisely nothing, being thick as mince, and being on the take from her Indian corporate sponsors. Hard to imagine which would be worse.
All the while the alternative is Starmer, whose perverted party will open up the borders, give power back to Brussels, double down on wokeness and welfarism until absolutely everywhere is a stabby multicultural shit tip where and we all become welfare serfs living in shoeboxes.
Britain's future is one of managed decline so long as we cling on to the obsolete Westminster system. The Westminster politico-media circus is incapable of recognising it is *the* central problem. We therefore cannot look to it for salvation. It's up to us to build an alternative
Ultimately, though, this all goes to prove our original thesis that the EU was only a symptom of the problem and that Brexit of itself would accomplish little. At best it was only the beginning of a long process. Thanks to sabotage by Vote Leave Ltd, this may be as far as it gets
Brexit may give us a new toolset to re-shape and reform the country, but without a capable government willing to use those tools in imaginative ways, Brexit is neither here nor there. Since Westminster was only momentarily disturbed by Brexit it has rapidly resumed old habits.
