Over the weekend,
Sky News reported
on some leaked messages from a What’s App group run by the Conservative Democratic
Organisation. This is the organisation founded by supporters of Boris Johnson with
the repeatedly denied aim of restoring him to what they see as his rightful
position as Prime Clown and First Lord of Chaos. To say that many of those
commenting are making rather unfavourable remarks about Rishi Sunak would be
something of an understatement. Others buy in to sundry, and fundamentally antisemitic,
theories about globalists and the World Economic Forum.
When it comes to talk
of conspiracy, my own favourite was the one who argued that, “No party can
be this incompetent on purpose. It's got to be by design”, thereby proving
that the author, at least, really can be that incompetent by accident, given
that he or she either thinks there is some fundamental difference between “on
purpose” and “by design” or has failed to transcribe his or her
thoughts accurately. Actually, however, I wonder if he or she might
accidentally have hit the nail on the head – perhaps the party and its leader
really aren’t as incompetent as they look and are actively trying to ensure
defeat in the next election. Given that Labour are so busy trying not to rock
any boats that they’re signing up to changing very little when they get into
government, it might make sense for the Tories to legislate for a whole series of
incoherent and damaging policies, locking Labour into implementing them. Meanwhile, they can change leader again and criticise the Labour government for
implementing the very policies that they themselves have passed. It might even be
their fastest route back to power.
It would be a very cunning plan. Unfortunately, I tend to side with Occam on this: the
simplest explanation is that they really are as incompetent as the person
writing the comment thinks, and that it’s neither on purpose nor by design.
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