An attack on the British Conservatives themselves
A western publication discussed the dire situation of the British Conservative Party and the dominoes of the party's members turning away from it on the eve of the general election. |
According to the international group Tasnim news agency, Germany’s “NTV” wrote in an article: The Conservative Party of England has been in trouble for years and this situation is now taking its revenge on this party.
The polling statistics of this party are awful and they lost hundreds of local council seats in the recent elections and Two parliamentarians of this party have also recently joined the opposition.
In the continuation of this article, it is stated: The differences in the conservative party of British Prime Minister Rishi Sonak are spreading. Ben Houchen, the Conservative mayor of the North East of England, said on the BBC’s Tess radio that the Conservatives were fighting each other “like rats in a bag” and Sonak was responsible for that. The last place was in England. He had avoided close contact with Sunak during the election campaign and did not wear the party’s traditional blue rose on his collar during the victory celebration. The politician said he had forgotten the sign.
In the latest poll by the Ugo Opinion Research Institute for The Times newspaper, the Conservatives won 18%, 30 points less than the opposition Labor Party. This is the highest deficit since the chaotic days of Liz Truss’s short-lived premiership in autumn 2022. In this situation, the new parliament should be elected in the UK by January 2025 at the latest.
Hotchen also said that the outlook for the Conservatives is getting worse every day. He added: “It’s very chaotic at the moment, isn’t it?” According to him, people no longer believe in the Labor Party. But the Tories (conservatives) show themselves as a fragmented party every day. “Ultimately, people don’t vote for parties that aren’t united, don’t form a united front, and don’t talk to the people,” he said. Houtchen won the election as a popular local figure despite running for the Conservatives. The Conservatives won almost 500 council and town hall seats in the West Midlands. They lost the local elections as well as the by-elections of the British Parliament in Blackpool in North West England.
After a devastating defeat in the British local elections, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has suffered a new defeat. Nathalie Alfike, one of the representatives of this party, turned to the opposition Labor Party along with a strong criticism of the head of the government. This 53-year-old woman explained her decision on Wednesday: “Conservatives have become a byword for incompetence and division.” .
Alfike has been representing the Dover constituency in Parliament since 2019, which is at the center of British politics due to the arrival of tens of thousands of illegal immigrants. This member of parliament criticized that the conservatives have left the political center and that the “tired and confused government of Rishi Sunak” has broken promises. Labor joined.
The disastrous results of the British Conservative Party in the recent local elections, which led to the loss of many seats of the party in various regions, have created more difficult conditions for the Prime Minister of this country, Rishi Sunak.
Germany’s Frankfurter Ronde Shai newspaper also discussed the growing desire of members of the British Conservative Party to distance themselves from Rishi Sunak, due to the weakening of his position in this party and in England.
According to this German newspaper, many British conservatives, especially those who work in the positions of local officials, do not want to have anything to do with Prime Minister Sunak’s government.
The Conservative government in London, after 14 years of power, is actually It is weakening.
In recent years, infighting has weakened the conservatives, who have been in power since 2010. Since the UK voted to leave the European Union in 2016, there have been five different prime ministers, including three prime ministers between July and October 2022.
The German newspaper Handelsblatt also wrote in an article recently. : Conservatives in England are so desperate that they seem willing to oust their fourth prime minister in the current term.
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