The latest crisis in the Tory party came with the defection from the Prime Ministership of Mr. Boris Johnson, who led and won the referendum to leave Britain. He then won a proud election victory, attracting traditional Labor voters. , and completed the Brexit deal.
But as it turned out in the end, these were not enough. The rift within the British Conservatives that predates the Margaret Thatcher era has never been definitively bridged. The intra-party conflicts in this party are much more intense. With incredible cruelty they fall upon their leaders. “Unstring this string and hear the disharmony that follows” wrote these days a British conservative referring to Shakespeare. And he continued “I did not mourn when Boris left. Today, however, I see that his assassination has unleashed the forces of anarchy.”
It’s no wonder that when Prime Minister Rishi Sunak fired the right-wing Home Secretary Suella Braverman a few days ago – also of Indian origin like the Prime Minister himself – Michael Hazeltine, an extreme Europeanist who masterminded the overthrow of Thatcher, exclaimed with relief “we got back our party”. Of course, the conservative party has never been pro-European in its majority. But Britain would not have left the EU either if David Cameron had not gone ahead with the referendum. But in this country which was the first to introduce the representative system of administration in the world, a political question of Major importance, such as the gradual assignment of sovereign rights to a multinational organization could not be taken by one government. It was up to the citizens of the United Kingdom to decide.
Completely different are those in force in the states of Europe, where even where referendums were held on issues such as the adoption of the common European Constitution, they were repeated until the desired result was achieved.
It is of course true that Britain was for centuries the scene of fierce internal strife, but it remained immune to the revolutionary virus which swept from time to time over Continental Europe, whether it was the virus of bourgeois revolution in France, which had spread throughout Europe. Either for the communist frenzy after the Bolsheviks came to power in Russia and finally for the nationalist frenzy that led to the second World War.
For a British conservative, the E.E. it is nothing more than an episode in European history, whereas the present crisis in the conservative party is simply a critical internal upheaval within a stable system. Time will tell what really happens.
