It’s Sunak’s doom loop: the more desperate and cruel the Tories become, the more voters reject them

‘Rishi Sunak announces an end to ‘sicknote culture’ by cutting disability benefits. But anti-welfare attitudes have fallen to record lows.’ Photograph: Frank Augstein/AFP/Getty Images

The prime minister rounds up asylum seekers on the eve of local elections, not to sway voters but to appease the hyenas lurking on his backbenches. He will boost the army by sacking 70,000 civil servants, never mind the Institute for Government calling those sums purely “fictitious”. The Tory right’s rollercoaster death plunge would be entertaining if we weren’t all aboard.

Now their time is up, such Conservatives think the end of the world is nigh. If the approaching moderate social democratic government looks to them like Armageddon, that’s because they have become cultish fanatics.