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
geese
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.
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!
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.
At least Nigel Farage has done something good for once.
…and so it begins…
Here’s the thing. Reform got as many seats as the Greens and the Lib Dems haven’t had this many MPs since the coalition. But let’s see who the media give all the coverage to…
LDs have never had this number of seats before.
Reform will get more because they came third in the vote share.
I am very happy in a sense that Reform only got 5 seats, compared to the Greens 4 and Lib Dems 72, but combined, Lib Dems and Greens got about 15% of the vote, and Reform got 15% too. So it’s clearly undemocratic. We got lucky this time, but it could easily have been the other way around.
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.
When will this used q-tip looking loser go away
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.
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.
Can’t someone give him a comb or a brush or something? Maybe a hat?
It’s a choice. He deliberately messes it up more when he’s about to be in front of the press.
Or a bag.
A plastic one
I blame Boris’ awful haircut.
