Baby Boomers have wrecked the Tory party
We are witnessing the beginning of the end of the Johnson era
Boris Johnson stands over your hospital bed, mask and medical gown on, forceps at hand, shining a lamp brightly down on your face. There had better be a good reason you’re undergoing this surgery. Pain must have a purpose.
Think back to the early Eighties. We face many of the same pains, again under a Conservative-majority government: Moscow is in the news for all the wrong reasons; high inflation; low growth; widespread industrial action. Britain is a country ill-at-ease, uncertain of its next destination.
The surgeon back then had no uncertainty over what medicine needed to be administered, what operation was required. The 1979 election was a referendum over the direction of the country: more of the same pain, or an operation that, despite its risks, might just jolt the country back to life?
And while you could…
To read this full article on the wholesale abandonment of the aspirational voter by the Tory party, please visit UnHerd, linked here: https://unherd.com/2022/06/the-boomers-have-destroyed-the-tories/
