Chris Newby, Socialist Party finance department
“We must understand now what an earthquake we have created. The way in which we have changed the political map of this country.” These were the words of Boris Johnson following the Tory general election victory in 2019. These sentiments were echoed by the vast majority of commentators and political activists at the time, predicting many more years of uninterrupted Conservative government. But as the current Tory bloodbath gathers apace with Johnson, Nadine Dorries and Nigel Adams all resigning their seats, how hollow these words now sound.
You would get a different view from the pages of the Socialist newspaper. We explained how weak that Tory government was, despite its 80-seat majority. In our general election special produced the morning after the Tory victory, we wrote:
“But Johnson’s attacks on trade unions and the working class as a whole can be defeated. The seeming strength of Johnson’s government will be shattered by coming events”.
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