Tories think being weird makes them interesting, but it just makes them weird | John Crace

Tories think being weird makes them interesting, but it just makes them weird | John Crace

The general election loss should have given Tory leadership hopefuls pause. Instead they’re doubling down on the oddness

The sound of silence. After more than a decade of Tory governments, many of us had become inured to the chaos. We had come to think of dysfunction as routine. Incompetence, stupidity, corruption, narcissism were a steady background noise. Just a normal working week.

So it’s come as something of a surprise to find that just a few days into the autumn term, not much appears to be going on in Westminster. No sound, no fury. Just people quietly going about their business. Politics as it used to be. Politics as it is meant to be. So much so that now even the Tories have come to think that the Tories are a bit weird. People are genuinely asking themselves how they could ever have imagined voting for them.

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