By-election swings and Conservatives being rejected for Right-Wing Tory activists brings urgent advice from elder statesmen?

 

Massive swings of over 10% in Urban areas and 7.5%+ in rural, local and national by-elections towards Labour and the LibDems.

With top conservative councillors in the North-East of England, East Anglia and the West Country being deselected in favour of hard line right wingers, red wall MP’s being pushed into the background and business leaders along with their companies shifting their allegiance to the Labour party along with some very hefty donations is bringing out former top conservatives to offer this government in office some very strong advice.

Old Guard Conservative politician George Osborne has come out this week to offer his sage-like advice to the ultra right-wing Tory Cabinet in national office, he has suggested that high business taxes are putting companies off investing in Britain, and urged Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to cut them next month to boost the economy. Hunt is set to put corporation tax up by 6% to 25% in his Spring budget. He told the press, "I reduced business tax because I thought that was a way of bringing investment in. That creates the revenues that allow you to fund your public services", Osborne also said, "That’s the approach I took and would be the approach I would take again." The comments come as the Conservative Growth Group prepares to hand an alternative budget to Mr Hunt that will include proposals to reduce the tax burden on businesses to boost the economy.

The Conservative Growth Group is a gathering of like-minded MPs planning to push a growth agenda – and maneuver the Prime Minister into adopting some of its preferred policies. The group is led by two men who served as cabinet ministers under Liz Truss: former levelling up secretary Simon Clarke and former environment secretary Ranil Jayawardena who see themselves as Conservative rather than Tories and are desperate to be recognised as such.

They have problems being seen as Trussites,  but do also appear to have a number of beliefs that will endear themselves to oldstyle conservative voters.

The problem with their alternative budget program is it is too little too late as the nation is being stripped of savings to pay for the Trussites first attempt at running the country following Boris Johnson’s failure to move on and protect the Tories massive political advantage. Johnson should have noticed the post brexit and post pandemic problems for business and stepped down as prime minister in a golden haze to reap greater rewards on the after-dinner circuit.

Were now run by a man who has no links to ordinary people or their plight, who came second to Liz Truss by miles in a vote off of Conservative Party Members and twisted the rules to ensure party members didn’t get a vote again to ensure his premiership, joined at the hip by Jeremy Hunt whose press photos show his strangeness growing with each publicised picture. 

The Conservative Party vote in their rural heartlands and east coast former industrial, fishing and agricultural areas is about to slip further into the background as the Confederation of Passenger Transport has warned that unless fresh support for bus services across the country is announced by today Friday 17:02:23, bus and coach services could face significant cuts within weeks. Current Government financial support for services expires at the end of March, but operators have to give six weeks' notice of plans to cut or change routes. 

Confederation Passenger Transport head Graham Vidler says while pandemic-related support has been welcome, "reliance on piecemeal funding puts up to 15% of services in jeopardy if not replaced" His statements are also supported by the GMB and Unite trade unions who fear the loss of bus drivers will immediately cause recruitment problems as many companies will seek voluntary redundancies first and a huge number of drivers may retire early, leaving the economy very short of the opportunity to re-recruit in the short term without the Government fully supporting a huge driver training scheme.

This loss of enjoyed transport facilities by the public with about to be abandoned routes running through rural areas will encourage an even greater shift by traditional conservative voters away from the Tories as they see a two pronged attack by the Tories in office against the delivery of services and the values they, Conservative voters, have held dear for decades being eroded by ultra right wingers who are only interested in the race to cash in on their current majority in Parliament. Their race for wealth is now openly seen as an attack on the welfare and pockets of UK residents.