Meep wrote:I would have once agreed but it has become clear to me that failures of the Tories are not necessarily punished. They have a level of control over the media narrative now that I can't remember any government ever having before in my life time. For example, the way the malaise we are currently is now unquestioningly referred to as a "strong economy", the way 'big society' Cameron has now been displaced to the point where relentless attacks on the lives of the disabled are now acceptable, to the point were de-funding children's education has become accepted as necessary when before the political consensus was always that children were our future, to the point where no one apparently cares that the NHS is in crisis. Any one of these things would be doing huge reputation damage to a Labour government yet somehow the Conservatives can survive all of them at once and be on course for a landslide.
If they have gotten away with all of the above I fail to see how failing on Brexit could do much damage. It will be reflected, ignored and pasted over by them and every willing conspirator. America is not the inventor of "alternative facts"; we are positively swimming in them. Reality seems to hold no consequence for Conservative electability. I hope I am wrong and that Brexit will be the straw that breaks the camel's back but I cannot honestly bet on it.
This is spot on it all seemed to start around 2007, as the world financial crisis began to hit into 2008 somehow the tories and media like the daily mail managed to pin all the problems on labour, the poor, the disabled, the sick and the immigrants.