On Thursday the Tories held their annual Black and White Ball at London’s exclusive Hurlingham Club. Tickets cost up to £1,500 with the finest champagnes on offer to wash down oodles of posh nosh. Thursday was also the longest day of the year.
How apt that this time it falls in a month when the party of privilege is trying to sell the longest suicide note in British political history. How fitting that Tory bigwigs and donors waltzed around in ballgowns and dinner jackets like first-class passengers on the Titanic, basking in their own infallibility, as the iceberg fast approaches. The reason you have to pinch your bicep to see if you are dreaming when another forecast of a 200-seat Labour majority flashes before your eyes is that those eyes have never seen a ruling party so in denial at the damage it has caused.
The Tories are facing their worst wipeout in their history, yet rather than try to understand why the country despises them, their politicians and media tub-thumpers attempt to frighten the horses with an apocalyptic vision of the future under Labour. Instead of asking how they ended up facing electoral Armageddon they seek to delude voters about Labour conning its way into power and creating a Stalinist Starmergeddon. Hence right-wing papers trying to guilt-trip readers with headlines that scream “Don’t risk a generation of socialism”.
Ex-minister Robert Jenrick warned Telegraph readers: “The UK could soon be run by more than 500 left-wing MPs. We are on.
