The British Conservatives Deserve to Lose

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced last month that snap elections will be held on July 4th, 2024. Sunak himself is from the Conservative Party, which currently has a 346 seat majority in the House of Commons.

I truly believe that the Conservatives do not deserve to keep their current majority, for reasons that I will go into momentarily. First, I would like to give you the alternatives that will be running to attain a majority next month.

Mind you, the following are just basic outlines of the parties in the House of Commons, if you are a British voter I recommend doing more thorough research into your options, and not just taking my opinion as the gospel when voting.

The Parties
The Conservative’s main competitor, the Labour Party, has 205 seats. Labour is led by Keir Starmer, who took over from Jeremy Corbyn after a string of election losses. Those of us who paid some attention to British politics during the Corbyn leadership remember him being a pretty big deal for the British left at the time.

Then we have the third largest party, the Scottish National Party, led in parliament by John Swinny (who is also the new First Minister of Scotland, so I don’t know how that works). I don’t expect them to make much more inroads considering they are mainly a regional party favored by Scotland.

Afterwards we have the previously third largest party in the UK, the Liberal Democrats, led by Ed Davey. Their ideology is exactly what you would think, being, well, liberal democrats. They are liberals that believe in free markets and a pro-EU Pro-interventionist foreign policy.

The fourth largest party, the Democratic Unionist Party, is another regional group situated in Northern Ireland. They actually were part of a governing coalition with Theresa May at one point which many considered provocative against the Irish Republic. They are very conservative but again, I do not expect them to make much inroads due to their regional nature.

Following the DUP, we have the British wing of Sinn Fein, which is in Parliament for no other reason than to advocate for Irish unification. Again, I do not expect this party to make much inroads.

The next three parties are smaller regional organizations. Plaid Cymru represent the Welsh, the Social Democratic and Labour Party represents leftist voters in Northern Ireland, and Alba is a more nationalist version of the Scottish National Party. Again, these are regional parties and I do not expect them to gain more support.

Then there are the British Greens, which are much like their continental European counterparts. They are left-libertarians who advocate for environmental issues, LGBT rights, and eventual abolition of the monarchy.

Afterwards there is Alliance, which is another regional party. Alliance is Northern Ireland’s liberal alternative to the DUP and SDLP. Basically, the libdems but for Northern Ireland.

There is also the question of the up-and-coming Reform Party, led by Nigel Farage, the man who championed causes such as Brexit and other forms of nationalist policy such as immigration restrictions.

Finally, we have the Worker’s Party of Britain, led by George Galloway. Galloway is, from what I can tell, more of an old-school working-class leftist, as opposed to modern day hipster leftism. They are social conservatives but economic socialists.

Why the Conservatives deserve to lose
This brings me to the main point of this piece. The Conservatives have been in power in the UK since 2010, when they, under the leadership of David Cameron, beat Labour under former Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Think about that, the Conservatives have been in power for almost fifteen years.

However, that they have been in power for so long is not my reason as to why the ought to lose in July. The main reason I believe in their defeat is the fact that, despite being in power for such a time, they have failed to do one critical thing: actually conserve anything British.

You might be wondering why I, as an American, care about this. It is because I am a quarter English on my mother’s side. I have relatives in the UK, I try to go over there on occasion. The last time I was able to go was in 2013, and sadly I have missed the chance to go over this summer due to other obligations.

The truth of the matter is that everything negative we are seeing happen to the UK has been allowed to happen under the Conservative’s watch. The mass immigration into British cities such as London changing the cultural landscape, the hate speech laws, the LGBT pandering, the warmongering, etc.

All of this is happening without the so-called Conservative Party conserving British culture, British values, and British sovereignty. If the Conservative Party refuses to conserve anything, then why shouldn’t they lose to Labour? What difference would it make? Why should Conservative Britons waste their time?

The current batch of polling seems to point to a wipeout at the ballot box for the Conservatives. However, we should also note that the Conservatives have had bad polling numbers in the past and came out strong in the end. This happened most notably with the 2019 elections, polling pointed to a Labour win, but we still ended up with Prime Minister Boris Johnson while Jeremy Corbyn got kicked to the curb.

Then you also have the issue of the Conservatives changing leadership as often as people change their socks. We started with David Cameron, who resigned because he was butthurt about Brexit. Afterwards we got Theresa May, who resigned because she called an election which went horribly for the Conservatives despite keeping a slim majority.

Then we got Boris Johnson, who resigned after scandals despite presiding over a golden age electoral wise for the party. After Johnson, we received Liz Truss, who was only in office for a month, and finally, we have Rishi Sunak, who is likely about to be leaving office soon.

So that is, within a span of ten years, five Prime Ministers. Meanwhile, Labour has only changed leadership once during that same timeframe, from Corbyn to Starmer. Whether we would see a continuation of Labour stability in a Starmer Government I do not know.

So here we have five different Conservative Prime Ministers, and not one of them actually conserved anything. Cultural degradation continued, the woke agenda is still being pushed. The only thing they are conserving, like most western conservative parties, is the GDP.

Basically, the gripes I have with the British Conservatives are the same gripes I have with the American Republicans. The difference is that the Republicans don’t deserve to win but will most likely win because the Democrats don’t deserve to win either, whereas the Conservatives don’t deserve to win and probably won’t because Labour has opposition advantage.

Should the Conservatives once again defy expectations and squeak out a win, I do not expect them to have an awakening and change course. I hope that, with losing, they will have an awakening, but given the track record of establishment parties, I do not see that happening.

Long story short, if you are a truly conservative Briton, I am of the opinion that you should cast your vote elsewhere in July.

If not the Conservatives, then who?
For me personally, I think that Farage’s Reform UK and Galloway’s Worker’s Party of Great Britain would be better alternatives. Farage believes in immigration restrictionism and cultural conservatism, while Galloway also believes in social conservatism but has left-wing economic policies.

I would say that I am giving a double endorsement to Reform UK and the Worker’s Party of Great Britain given that both Farage and Galloway have positions that I agree and disagree with. However, I think that should these two make massive inroads, it would be better for the UK as a whole.

I wish there was a genuine British Nationalist party running in the elections, but sadly that doesn’t seem to be the case just yet. I am hoping that, should either Reform or WPGB make massive gains, we can start to reforge either one of those into such a party.

Conclusion
Despite my wishcasting over Reform and WPGB, the most likely outcome of this election will be a Labour majority. As I said, I hope that the British right will start soul searching and finding alternatives to the Conservatives if they themselves do not wise up.

Starmer has problems of his own, he is a Zionist, which many Labour voters aren’t happy about, so I think we will see a similar problem arise within the Labour government where the Labour constituency doesn’t feel represented.

Of course, all of this is just a small example of a bigger problem that is prevalent in the West: nobody feels like the political parties they are sending to government actually represent their interests. It is happening in Britain, it is happening in the US, it is happening in Germany, and it is happening in other places.

It is my steadfast opinion that certain parties need to either reform themselves by getting rid of the rot or die off completely so that better options for the people can be put forward.