The British Conservatives are about to learn the lesson that US conservatives learned in the 2016 election.
Voters who back the Brexit Party at the next election would be helping put Jeremy Corbyn in No 10, Jacob Rees-Mogg warned last night.
The Leader of the House of Commons emphatically ruled out an alliance between the Tories and Nigel Farage in a snap poll.
He also issued a clear warning of the consequences for the Tories of Brexit not happening on October 31, saying the Brexit Party would be ‘full steam ahead’.
‘I don’t think a deal works,’ Mr Rees-Mogg told a Daily Telegraph event last night. ‘If we haven’t left by October 31, the Brexit Party won’t want to do a deal with us. If we have failed, the Brexit Party is full steam ahead.’
Urging Brexit Party supporters back to the Tory fold, he warned the audience to ‘think very hard’ before voting for it.
He added: ‘If you vote for the Brexit Party at the next election it is a vote effectively for Jeremy Corbyn.’
People stuck on binary analyses never see the third option coming. They also never seem to grasp that most people prefer open and avowed enemies to unreliable and traitorous allies.
If the leaders of the Conservative Party had any brains and actually valued political power, they would do two things. First, encourage Scottish independence. The only reason Labour ever had any power in Great Britain was due to the strong inclination of the Scots toward the Left. Once the Scottish electorate is excised from the British Parliament, Labour becomes as irrelevant as the Liberal Democrats have been historically.
Second, do a deal with the Brexit Party and build up a powerful Leave majority whether Brexit has taken place or not.
The fact that the Conservative leadership refuses to do either of these perfectly obvious things demonstrates very clearly that they are not serious about any of their professed principles. Like US conservatives, they have failed to conserve anything. They fully merit their future failure.