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The right-wing press will admit nothing, ever. They will always point the finger at some other bogeyman, whether it's the EU/the Germans/immigrants/muslims/communists.
Further cuts in public spending, infrastructure and services will only further increase vote share in the regions worst hit by such measures, as has happened now.
The harm they cause only makes them stronger.
The super wealthy interests that are the Conservative's true constituency, that own them and the scum bag right-wing media will not relinquish control. They would have to be made to.
And as a country we are too far gone for that.
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Kind of. My hunch is that what they can do will depend largely on the degree to which the right wing press is prepared to own the inevitable broken promises and failures of brexit. As things go wrong in the economy (and they absolutely will to one degree or the other) the opposition have the opportunity to hold the Tory's (and brexiteers' more generally) feet to the fire about how badly things are going. They could claim that they would have done better or (perhaps less productively) that it's clear that brexit was sold on a set of lies by the very people now in power.
The problem is that I very much doubt that we're going to see a headline in the Sun saying "Oh shit, we made a massive fucking mistake" What I fear will happen is that the press will play up the sense of aggrievement and victimhood based on nationalism and exceptionalism, essentially claiming that other countries are not giving us what we're owed. This of course will be utter bollocks, since they owe us nothing. Brexit is (fallaciously) sold as in our national interest, and other countries will act in theirs to squeeze us as hard as they can. Even worse, the finger will be pointed squarely at immigrants and "remainers" and the claim will be made that somehow the country is still be held back by them and would ascend meteorically if only we hadn't interfered/would stop interfering. That potentially could become even more toxic than things have already.
So in short, the opposition(s) in parliament, can call out the Tories on their broken promises but it will count for fuck all if the Tories don't fear for their reputation because the press and the public can't admit that the whole endeavour (both Brexit and the Tory government) was always going to be painful and both contain epic levels of ideologically-driven bullshit.