@hengymrohebwlad sure, but Fico was another Orban in the making, a godsend to Putin. Stirring the pot has no guarantee they will get a good replacement.
Predictably, they are blaming Ukraine, but that's their instinctive flex for everything these days.
Sunak doing one of his "angry" speeches reminds me of the scene in the Inbetweeners when Will "Briefcase Wanker" gets all his classmates banned from the pub
@EA7KRC Christopher Hitchens once wrote about getting spanked by Margaret Thatcher. Not sure if he was entirely joking but he also wasn't clear whether he enjoyed it or not.
You get the impression from today's Tories (Sunak, Truss et al) that they don't really like Britain or its people very much. They regard the British people as lazy, "woke", workshy and ungrateful.
Hence all their talk about doing away with doctors' sick notes, discouraging work-from-home, "Singapore on the Thames" etc. They would much rather be governing an imaginary authoritarian country somewhere in Asia with zero workers rights.
I have no idea how the Tories would turn around their catastrophic polling or recover post-election but coming across that they actually like ordinary people would be a good start.
@peteriskrisjanis thinking in particular of the "Britannia Unchained" lunatics like Truss. The problem these geniuses don't face is that they have to win elections and even right-of-center voters genuinely don't want to live in their weird dystopia.
@forthy42 which (from their point of view) would be fine if you ruled an authoritarian state, but it's hard to oppress and enslave people while at the same time expecting them to vote for you.
@fishidwardrobe Thatcher most definitely. But she was able to paint the unions as the "enemy within" that held the British people back. The current lot view the problem as the British people themselves (aided of course by the nebulous "deep state").
Watching latest Mission Impossible and realising Tom Cruise is same age as Angela Lansbury in the early seasons of Murder She Wrote and the only physical stunt she did was cycling around Cabot Cove
I suspect that the only people still planning to vote Tory at the GE are either very rich, very stupid, or still believe in Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy. Same applies to those planning to vote for Trump in November of course.