No Going Back

Conservative pledges now mean nothing.

Ah yes, here we go again: another batch of sweeping Conservative pledges.

I won’t often cover much of what the Tories are now doing.

There are two very good reasons for this.

Firstly, as far as I’m concerned, they can say whatever they like. The party has a consistent track record of making promises and then breaking them.

In manifesto after manifesto, they spoke about reducing immigration. Then increased it to levels we’ve never seen before.

For years the Conservatives stood on explicit manifesto pledges to reduce net migration down to the ‘tens of thousands’ per year. Then never delivered.

The alarming decline of our country under Tory Governments was underlined by their decision to allow the ECHR to block their signature Rwanda policy.

In Government, they bitched and complained about the status quo instead of getting on with making positive changes.

Their parliamentary majority was totally wasted as the ‘broad church’ Tories spent years bickering amongst themselves rather than getting things done.

Now, with Reform surging, the Tories want you to believe they would do the opposite to all they allowed to happen in Government.

I simply don’t find that credible. Why should we believe them?

The second reason that I’ll rarely discuss the Conservatives is because they are now about as relevant as the Liberal Democrats.

In fact, a recent Find Out Now survey registered Conservative support as just 14%.

That’s two points below the LibDems, with the Tories now fourth under Kemi Badenoch’s leadership.

A major recent MRP poll also recorded the Conservatives as being in fourth position, left with only 41 MPs compared to Reform’s 373 if the election took place now.

There are already predictions that after next May’s elections, the Conservative Party will cease to be a proper national political party.

The latest Welsh Parliament polling puts the Tories on just 11%, with Plaid Cymru on 30% and Reform 29%.

To put that into context it would leave the Tories with 8 seats in the Senedd, with Plaid and Reform on 36 each.

The Conservative decline isn’t surprising. Voters have been badly let down over the years by the Tories who have focused on tough speeches rather than proper action.

They refused to ban hate marches. We now have growing, dangerous antisemitism.

The tax burden they chose to ramp up is hammering businesses and workers.

Record-high immigration has damaged our quality of life and they failed to defend our borders from the illegal boat crossings.

The end result is that even with Labour’s support collapsing, led by the most unpopular Prime Minister in history, few are turning to the Tories.

After all, why would voters want the same people who helped wreck the country back in power again?