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Tories torn asunder by Sunak’s silence over Hester scandal
Rishi Sunak
POLITICAL parties are fragile creations. The centrifugal pressures of personality clashes and policy divisions can, in tranquil times, be contained.
Britain’s first-past-the-post (FPTP) election system has evolved to insulate the Westminster political machines from a direct reflection of the class forces at play in the nation as a whole, but, as Madonna has it in George Harrison’s song, “We are living in a material world.”
Thus in any living organism or social construct, when internal cohesion breaks down, as it has done in the Tory Party at present, the scum floats to the surface.
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