Giving snakes a bad name, venomous Tories are slithering in a pit of hatred.
We witness daily how Rishi Sunak’s UK Conservative variant hasn’t moved on as much as he pretends from the Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock era.
Economic failure, falling living standards, declining public services... and the Tory civil war is still vicious.
Sunak may discover Chancellor Jeremy Hunt sitting back in next week’s Budget to let fuel bills soar another £400 will burn any electoral payback for extinguishing a £500 rise.
And the current PM, himself fined for attending a Covid rule-breaking party with Johnson, is proving disagreeably slippery and dishonest.
Spitting spitefully at asylum seekers is gutter politics that will sink him if there’s any justice in this world.
Johnson going the full Trump on Partygate, dismissing credible evidence of lies, is music to Labour ears. Equally, the treasure trove of Hancock’s WhatsApp messages reminds voters that preening Tories promoted themselves during the pandemic.
Even the Windsor Framework struck with the European Union is a double-edged sword for Sunak.
The Brexiteer unwittingly conceded that leaving the EU punishes Britain because it denies what has been secured for Northern Ireland – access to the single market. Hostility from Johnson and a few dozen Tory ERG extremists plus a no surrender DUP was predictable.
Look at the Government as a whole and a royal seal of approval doesn’t erase Sunak’s responsibility for rocking Northern Ireland in the first place.
Tory snakes can’t shed their skin.
Hatreds run deep. Ineptitude is rife. Policy choices are wrong. Values are indecent. And a country made to suffer is still minded to take revenge at the ballot box.
