Rishi Sunak should resign before he leads the Conservatives to “extinction”, a Tory MP has said in an excoriating attack on the prime minister.
In a dramatic intervention on Tuesday night, Simon Clarke, who was a cabinet minister in Liz Truss’s short-lived government, urged Sunak to quit and make way for a new Tory leader.
In an op-ed for the Telegraph, Clarke said Sunak’s “uninspiring leadership is the main obstacle to our recovery” and that he has “sadly gone from asset to anchor”.
He argued that Sunak “is leading the Conservatives into an election where we will be massacred” because “he does not get what Britain needs. And he is not listening to what the British people want.”
Clarke’s article set off a fresh round of internal party warfare. Tory grandees from all wings of the party hit back at Clarke on social media. » | Eleni Courea | Tuesday, January 23, 2024
That the Conservative Party is divided and weak should not surprise us one little bit. The Party pulled a fast one on the electorate with that nonsensical and unwise Brexit Referendum. With it, the Party was rent asunder rather than glued back together. Not only that, but the country was divided too – seriously divided. As it states in the Bible, as Jesus said: “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.” Matthew 25, NKJV.
This country needs a good, pro-business party, but one that is fair to all sectors of the economy and society, one that is pro-EU. (There's is big market across the English Channel: 450m consumers!) The Conservatives brought us Brexit and speaks incessantly of reviving Thatcherism. It is Thatcherism that has created the colossal divide in this country between the haves and the have-nots, the colossal divide between the rich and the poor, wealth inequality which this country hasn't seen since the Victorian Era.
Furthermore, it is the Conservatives who have brought this country abject poverty and food banks with Cameron and Osborne's insistence on austerity, year after year.
It is clear that the Conservative Party's glory days are well and truly over. Again, as it states in the Bible, in Ecclesiastes 3: To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; ... KJV.
Maybe the Tories have outlived their usefulness; maybe it really is time for the Party to go the way of the Whigs: into oblivion. – © Mark Alexander
