Bad Enoch Implodes

The Conservative Party conference, this week, was the backdrop to the implosion of its leader Bad Enoch. The two former main parties – Conservative and Labour – have entered themselves into an ugly competition with Reform, and, boy, are they all ugly!

The conditions for the implosion of Bad Enoch stem from that, as the Conservatives have already seen their reactionary, petty-bourgeois, Tory wing be simply metamorphosed into Reform. The word is that, following the conference, as Bad Enoch loses the protection against a leadership challenge, the letters are ready to go in, and she will be replaced by “honest” Bob Jenrick, who has used the conference platform, to show that he is ugly enough to compete with the racists of Reform, following his comments about the lack of any white faces to be seen on a recent trip to Handsworth, in Birmingham. But, the word, also, is that when he takes over as leader, he will merge what remains of the Tories with Reform.

And, it is a question of what remains, because Reform has already picked up large numbers of Tory activists, councillors and so on, as well as some of their donors, whilst, at the same time, the party has lost significant numbers from its opposite wing to the Liberals, and in Scotland to the SNP. The implosion this week, as Bad Enoch sought to simply say whatever outlandish, racist thing she could think of, such as the pledge, plucked out of the air, to repatriate 150,000 UK residents a year, is simply a desperate attempt to compete with the ugliness of Jenrick inside the party and Farage outside. It also seeks to outdo the ugly, racist politics of Starmer and Blue Labour, as they also responded to Farage's NF-like comments on repatriation. Indeed, Jenrick's comments, only mirror the comments of Starmer a few weeks ago that, also, used the imagery of the original Enoch, in his “Rivers of Blood” speech.

The Conservative Party is dead and buried. Labour looks to be next. Starmer has survived for now, but Blue Labour has lost credibility, along with lots of its voter base to the Greens, and Liberals. The Deputy Leader contest has been turned into a typical, meaningless, stage-managed farce. Its only saviour, at the moment, is the usual failure of the Left to organise itself, and this from people who for decades claimed to have studied the tactical and strategic genius of the likes of Lenin and Trotsky! But, despite them, history will move on, and if the current regime inside Labour continues into the Spring, it will be destroyed in the elections, forcing the unions to act in one way or another.