Doomed! Doomed!

Andrew of Dodgeblogium has just survived the Tory Party conference. From what he says, the prospects don't look good for them.

The conference, as you may have read elsewhere, was rather poorly attended by all types of people. It was possible to get into the bar in the conference hotel at 2am for the first time in all my times at conference. What was most striking was the sneering delegates, staff, and hangers-on who impishly spewed bile about all but themselves. The state of play was everyone's fault but their own. CCO and parliamentary staff drunkenly hurled abuse at those they felt did not belong, or worse, passed vile insinuations and secrets to the press. The last night, the Conference Hotel reminded me of Lord of the Flies.

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Unless the Tory Party are very lucky and Tony Blair commits seppuku they have no chance of winning the next election. The party is heading to oblivion, and none of the Party's apparatchiks seem to give a damn.

I'm not by any means a supporter of the Tories, opposing many of the things they stand for, but it's still highly dangerous for any democracy to lack a credible opposition. If the Tories continue to implode, can the Liberal Democrats take their place? Or, in the most apocalyptic of scenarios, will the racist thugs in the British National Party exploit a gap in the market?

We Brits are in for some interesting times in politics in the next few years.