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I just keep thinking back to a conversation with a friend, who unfortunately is a Tory, about 5 years back. Saying to him, 'You cunts have won - you have the media sewn up, the public convinced you're the natural party of government, Brexit has shifted the Overton window miles to the right, you're gerrymandering to shore it all up. You are bulletproof and have no natural predators.' I genuinely thought it was impossible we'd see a change in government in a generation or more, and don't even now think my logic was flawed.
The good thing was that they believed it too. They thought they could get away with their turbo-charged mix of incompetence, complacency, fuckwittery, bigotry and utter blatant contempt for anyone who isn't them in perpetuum. That they've blown it all so completely and so quickly is actually breathtaking.