Donald Trump’s victory to become the 47th President of the United States is a victory of pro-business common sense over the forces of wokism that have infected the US, the UK and much of the planet.
In Donald Trump’s victory I see a road-map for new Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, which if she follows it can bring the Conservatives back in touch with its voters.
The party has been in decline for at least 15 years, due to vicious internal wars between different factions.
Since 2010 the party has installed into Downing Street, a Tony Blair tribute act, an imitation Iron Lady, a caddish clown, a crazy woman, and a charisma free autocrat. If the Conservative Party was a ship it’s been sailing like there’s a monkey at the helm, zigging to the left, then zagging to the right, before hitting the rocks at full steam ahead.
The Conservatives are in ruins, with their traditional voters – including the 5.5 million small business owners – spread over at least three parties. Those who voted Labour will be back on the market for a political home soon enough, but will they return to the nest or join the 4.1 million others at Nigel Farage’s refuge for disillusioned Tories, aka Reform UK?
As everyone knows I am a fan of Nigel and Reform UK, but all of a sudden, a Conservative Party with Kemi in charge, it feels like there is a chance of reconciliation into a single brand. I know in our voting system votes don’t necessarily mean seats in parliament, but the Tories’ 6.8 million together with Reform UK’s 4.1 million, managed intelligently, should trump Labour’s 9.7 million at the 2024 General Election.
President Elect Donald Trump has, in his own unique style, galvanised large portions of US society together to form a movement that has won two terms in the White House. He understands that his base have common beliefs; freedom of speech; less busy-body government interference in people’s lives, and solid pro-US, pro-business policies. This is the lesson we should take from the 2024 US election.
For me Kemi is the kind of leader the Conservative Party has desperately needed; her anti-woke platform is a refreshing change, and with experience in government as International Trade secretary, Business and Trade secretary, as well as minister for Women and Equalities. Crucially Kemi has had real jobs before politics, two at banks, which I’ll almost forgive, since she has also flipped burgers at McDonalds as a young woman.
And I’m not the only one who thinks so; I had lunch the other day with Tory ‘big beast’ and another natural working-class conservative like myself, Sir David Davis, and I don’t think he’d mind me saying he can see in Kemi, a light at the end of the tunnel.
There has been a lot of water under the bridge since Nigel Farage became leader of UKIP in 2006, so a full merger might be a stretch at this point, but you never know what’s possible – a Badenoch/Farage co-leader ticket for the Reformed Conservative and Unionist Party?
Tribalism aside, some form of collaboration for the good of the country is a complete no-brainer; it feels like a return to some form of natural order, and a logical solution to the abomination of Keir Starmer’s anti-business woke regime. So, whether it’s a non-compete pack in certain seats, a full merger, or some other form of joint effort, it’s the best way to return Westminster to a parliament that isn’t controlled by a bunch of left-wing lunatics.