During their congress, the Tories showed an open war party with a government trained just a month ago. After twelve years at the head of the country, and moribund social and economic indicators, the conservatives seem to no longer know how to renew themselves.
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An interior minister, Suella Braverman, who accuses the deputies of her own conservative camp with a “blow” against the British Prime Minister, Liz Truss. A Chancellor of the chessboard, Kwasi Kwarteng, who, at the end of arguments to justify the catastrophic reception of his “mini-dubbing” by the markets, evokes his lack of preparation linked to the funeral of the Queen. A key minister of the government, Penny Mordaunt, who breaks the ranks and openly criticizes Downing Street. Michael Gove, Grant Shapps where Priti Patel, ex-ministers of Boris Johnson who also multiply the spikes against M me truss, as if they were already in the campaign. And the latter who continues the interviews with a smile but has already lost a lot of authority, after having assured being “ready to be unpopular” to “make difficult decisions”, like her idol Magareth Thatcher, but has given up , in a few hours, the abolition of the income tax rate at 45 % (a gift for the richest households).
We could extend the list of tragicomic episodes that punctuated the Conservators Conference, which ended on Wednesday October 5 in Birmingham. The British right party gave an edifying spectacle: that of training on the verge of implosion, at the war open against a government formed just a month ago but already seemingly dying, where the shocking words competed for him incompetence. Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Minister of Industry, thus deals with “luddites” (a reference to workers who broke industrial machines to protest unemployment at the beginning of the 19th e century) the many opponents of hydraulic fracturing and accuse them of being “funded by the Putin regime”. Suella Braverman assures that “her dream”, they are planes full of asylum seekers in distress taking off for Rwanda. How could the formation of Benjamin Disraeli and Winston Churchill were able to devour her own leaders (Theresa May held three years, Boris Johnson barely more) and to give the keys to power to free market dogmatic Or to right -wing extremists?
Simplistic vision of the economy
The wear of power has its share: after twelve years in the management of the country and with a very mediocre assessment, the Tories no longer manage to renew themselves. The years of austerity of the Cameron government have dug inequalities – access to education, to health, very high infant poverty (27 % of children live in a classified home as poor), an increasing appeal to food banks (the Large Trussell Trust network has distributed 50 % more food lots in recent months than before the pandemic). The public hospital can no longer face and economic growth remains soft, with real wages that have been stagnating for ten years. The Conservatives are increasingly having trouble putting these failures on the account of Laborists, who have not been in business since 2010, or that of the European Union (EU) – Brexit has been effective since January 2021.
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