In theory, of course, there is little advice anyone in a national newspaper can offer about how to vote in local elections. Yet many who will for that or similar reasons cast a reluctant ballot for the Tories at the general election likely want some way to signal their dissatisfaction with the Government – and Thursday’s local elections are the best chance they’ll get. And it’s hard to get too worked up even at the prospect of a Race Equality Act when it is almost certain that a subsequent Tory government wouldn’t actually repeal it, and members of the one after that will probably claim that the such legislation is why they are a Conservative in the first place. But that is a depressingly low price for which to part with your vote. Of course, a Labour government would almost certainly be worse. Whether an individual rightist’s priorities tend towards tax cuts, lower immigration, or building more houses, it isn’t getting done. But in the current circumstances, there is surely no section of it which truly feels it is getting what it wants, except perhaps pensioners. Instead, restive Conservative supporters have to grapple with a more hum-drum problem: the wisdom of rewarding a government the record of which, on the issues we care about, is poor. No, no dramatic confrontation with the politics of the fringes for us.
The Tories have not seen an influx of entryists. Plenty of good people on the other side had to grapple with this question between 20. Ditto for anyone whose salary, sinecure, or status somehow depends on their preferred party being in office.īut what about the rest of us? People who support the Conservatives because we are conservatives, of one form or another, and want a government that delivers specific policies – or indeed just a baseline of effective governance? Here’s a question to trouble Tories: in what circumstances, if any, should you want the Conservative Party to do badly – and if so, how badly? For those for whom politics is essentially just a team sport, the question does not arise.
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