The lack of success of the British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunakin its attempt to rise in the polls has forced the right wing of Conservative Party to launch one last attempt to try win back the electorate lost before the next general elections, scheduled for the end of the year. A group of prominent members of the party, most of them relegated to less prominent positions in Parliament after occupying relevant positions in previous Governments, presented the platform this Tuesday ‘Popular Conservatism’which aims to appeal to right-wing voters with a populist discourse, focused on the fight against green policies, gender identity and immigration.
The group, promoted by the former prime minister Liz Trusshas put at the center of its criticism of international organizationswhom he accuses of having usurped the sovereignty of the British people. A speech that worked with him Brexit and which now has as its main target institutions such as the HIM y al European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), who is accused of preventing the implementation of the deportations of asylum seekers to Rwanda. “It is not only in this country where people are totally fed up with this internationalist and irresponsible approach to governing. We have left the European Union but there are other organizations that tell us what we have to do,” criticized the former minister. Jacob Rees-Moggone of the most visible faces of the party’s hardline.
Criticism of green policies
The purpose of the new conservative faction is to awaken the voters who gave the absolute majority for Boris Johnson in 2019. One of the main axes of their speech focuses on the fight against green policies and the climate agenda, which they point out as causing the increase in fuel prices and their negative impact on the family economy. “How many people stay awake at night worrying about whether we will make it to the emissions neutrality in 2050? I’ll tell you something, there aren’t many,” said the man who was vice president of the Conservative Party until early January, laughing. Lee Anderson. “What worries my voters are the gas bills and of the electricity“.
Anderson, a former coal mine worker and one of the representatives of the conservative deputies of the so-called ‘red wall’ –the formerly industrialized areas of the north of the country with traditionally Labor voters–, has summarized in his speech one of the core messages of the new conservative group: attack an economic elite and politics that, they claim, imposes laws from above that no one has voted for, placing the weight of the fight against climate change on the backs of the working classes, in the name of the common good. What the ‘Tory’ MP has overlooked is that it was Truss herself who proposed a massive tax cut for large fortunes, shaking the British economy and forcing her to resign from her position as prime minister after only 45 days. in Downing Street.
Far from self-criticism, Truss has attacked some of his party colleagues, whom he accuses of being afraid to publicly show their opinions in a political landscape “increasingly leaning to the left”. “Many of our colleagues are thinking about the job they will receive after leaving Parliament and do not want to be unpopular. If we are not prepared to defend conservative values“Who will be?” asked the former prime minister.
cultural battle
For the promoters of the new group, the conservatives have to defend the individual versus the collective and stand up to organizations financed with public money that contribute to propagating the “woke” culture ya push gender identity policies. Organizations controlled by “left-wing extremists”, according to Truss. “There is a harmful division between an elite decision-maker and ordinary people: we have seen it in the takeover of institutions by the left and the rise of bureaucracy, driven by Tony Blair“said the conservative deputy at an event that she also attended. Nigel Farageformer leader of the UKIP party and one of the main promoters of Brexit.
The former prime minister has also launched criticism against the Conservative Party and has lamented the failure to seize power from the left in the so-called culture war. But although the promoters of Popular Conservatism assure that they do not intend to overshadow Sunak, there is a willingness to exert pressure against the party leadership to include their proposals in the electoral program. What is not clear is whether Truss’s image will help improve the Tories’ electoral prospects: according to the latest surveys, 65% of citizens have a negative opinion of her, compared to 11% who value her positively. . A result worse than that of the current prime minister and even worse than that of Boris Johnson when he left office.
2024-02-06 18:00:46
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