The Tories are still controlled opposition

The announcement on social media proves it

“If there is a Conservative government, I can sleep at night.” - Sir Keir Starmer

It is very helpful to right-wingers in Britain when the ‘right of the Tory Party’ comes up with hateful policies like banning social media for those under the age of 16.

This is actually a more moderate stance than the one which Chief Badenoch wants - she has previously said children shouldn’t be allowed to have smartphones at all.

If you believe in either of these policies, which would establish the principle that the government can decide whether or not you are allowed to own a mobile phone, and would force ID checks for everything online (meaning that internet anonymity would be impossible), while living in a country which makes 12,000 arrests for online posts a year, whilst believing that you are fighting a totalising war for the future of the West against a hostile establishment which wants to cut up kids genitalia, you are a malign imbecile. LEAVE.

Worst of all is that this policy has been announced whilst the government is attempting to weaponise concerns about sexualised AI editing to crush free speech. When Badenoch’s spokesperson was asked directly by the Guardian whether or not she would support a ban, they (characteristically) refused to give a straight answer, saying they were ‘not about to announce policy’.

The contrast here with Nigel Farage, who announced that he would repeal the Online Safety Act when it came into effect last Summer, and has now said that he does not support a ban on X - is so clear that there can be no excuse for failing to defect at this stage. The Tories are on the side of Liz Kendall, the Technology Secretary who said yesterday:

It’s time to choose a side. They can either support the action we are taking under the Online Safety Act or they can ally with those who think the creation and publication of sexually manipulated images of women and children is acceptable

Read: If you disagree with what we are doing, you are on the side of paedos. The same slander that they used against Farage last July.

Why is it helpful that the Tories are doing this? Because there will still be people on the right of politics who believe there is something worth saving out of this political party. They can employ elaborate reasoning to try to reach this conclusion, they can delude themselves that the current Tory party has access to a talent pool that Reform does not (in reality it is staffed by the D-Team and produces candidates like Katie formerly Jamie Wallis).

They may say that there will have to be a coalition between the Tories and Reform to kick Labour out - a viewpoint I once held when I wrongly believed that Reform had a cap of 20/25% support. Mea Culpa. Events like the announcement today reminds us of just how wretched these people really are, and how little they understand this country and its liberties. It is especially helpful that doyennes of the ‘New Centre Right’, who we are told are secretly really based have also come out to endorse it. There is no good ending in which these people remain MPs. They have to be cleared out completely.

Badenoch, the candidate who received the endorsement of the entire Conservative Party establishment when she was made leader of the party, has not only disgraced herself with the announcement today, but with other interventions towards the close of last year. This self-styled ‘free speech warrior’ joined the government and the media in monstering Nigel Farage over what he said or did not say when he was a student at Dulwich College, some fifty years ago. Badenoch had the gall to say:

“Whether he remembers or not, he didn’t deny it. He said, well, actually, he wasn’t trying to hurt people. Nigel’s a big boy. He should just stand up, put on his big boy pants, and just say: ‘Do you know what? I’m sorry. I didn’t mean it.’ The fact that he doesn’t want to do that is a bit strange to me. That’s what I would have done.”

This from the woman who had a protracted public breakdown during the leadership campaign when her blog posts, presumably written when she was in her 20s, were half-exposed.

Badenoch and the Tories deserve to be polling far below Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, and the reason they are not because the media has been giving Badenoch an exceptionally easy ride for the last six months.

There are a few different reasons for this. The first one is much of the media would like the Tories to start winning against Farage because they fear or dislike Reform. The second is that Badenoch is a black woman and so journalists were reticent about explicitly calling her lazy (although there were exceptions to this), or more pertinently, reporting on the very amusing stories about her personal attitude and her family background in Nigerian politics. It is probably career suicide to write about the bounty bars and the tangfastics under your own name.

Finally, the ‘attack’ function within both Labour Party and No.10, which is usually digging up stories about whoever the Tory leader happens to be and briefing it to the press, has barely touched Kemi at all. Not just because they need to focus on Farage, but because they believe (rightly or wrongly) that she is less of a threat than James Cleverly, who they think would win in the event of a leadership contest.

Reform, which is still in an embryonic stage of development, does not yet have this attack capacity. This not only keeps Kemi safe, it also exposes Farage as it means they do not have dirt on enemy politicians to use to barter with political journalists when they have a negative story on Farage.

The easy treatment manifests itself in how the press reports not only on Badenoch but also on the wider narrative it spins about the Conservative Party. It is accepted, as an example, that the Tories were responsible for the immigration crisis. That is something that the BBC will mention in a segment on the issue. That fabled ‘Yookay Boriswave’.

They continue to permit the Tories some semblance of ‘credibility’ on the economy, repeating credulously the utterly ludicrous suggestion that Badenoch will cut stamp duty (£11 billion) whilst finding £47bn through Civil Service cuts and welfare changes - this from the opposition party which campaigned aggressively to prevent Starmer from cutting the Brownite winter fuel allowance.

This alongside a web of populist fiddles to business rates which will end up creating hundreds of perverse incentives and more regulatory burdens. The reaction of the broadcast press to this should be howling laughter but instead they gurn that ‘this Mrs Badenoch has only gone and bloody Costed it, errrr, and her PMQs, yep, yep…’

Every time a Tory starts whingeing about the ‘cost of living crisis’ it should be pointed out to them, venomously, that they were responsible for Britain having the most expensive commercial energy costs in Europe (four times that of the US). That it was under their watch that we mothballed all of the functional power plants, the decision that means we now teeter towards the edge of blackout every winter. This might sound like we are repeating the arguments of 2023, but the job isn’t actually finished until the Tories are reduced to less than fifteen seats.

It is testament to the wisdom of the Great British Public that despite the unending slander by the media and the deep-state, the government’s willingness to brand Reform as Treasonous paedophiles, there has been no consistent movement in the polls and Reform remains a comfortable ten points ahead of both the Tories and Labour.

The reason that Badenoch and Labour are failing to get anywhere after their co-ordinated smear campaigns is that people are able to access information on the internet. Without X a few weeks of blasting Farage on the telly for being an antisemite would allow the Uni-party to regain a polling lead. I know that, and so do the parasites inside government who are mauling free speech and digital liberties in the name of child safety whilst their own ex-councillors are being charged for paedophilia.

The Tories, in making the announcement that they have today, have decided to align themselves with the forces of evil. A rotting corpse which will continue to spread disease until it is burned to ashes, and scattered forever.

There is only one way out of this hell: