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  • Yes the Tory Grandees, aristocrats and land owners are now reaping the result of the entryism of spivs, charlatans and chancers that started with the local association selection processes under Thatcher.

    Overt corruption and a tidal wave of Russian money funding the 'natural party of government'.

  • The current situation is her legacy, for sure, but the thing she brought into the party's mainstream was ideological fanaticism; the corruption is nothing new. The ERG are her legacy. Successi very Tory leaders tried and failed to keep them in check, then Johnson did a faustian deal with them.

  • The ERG are her legacy

    The irony being that Thatcher was pretty pro the economic aspects (e.g. the single market), which the ERG headbangers now find unpalatable.

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