the Monday Musings column from that consultant bloke

You have betrayed me, and my brief membership of your party is now over because of your recent stupidity.

Having given us the chance to vote on EU membership you got the result that your leadership of the time did not want. They left, but you elected, as leader, another Europhile who presided over an exit from the EU that was turgid and poorly managed, thanks in part to allowing a pro-EU civil service to do their best to foul things up.

This was the point at which I decided, after years of avoiding to affiliate with any political party, to join your ranks. As a member I voted for Boris Johnson as leader and was happy to see him duly elected. He was a true leader, but you decided to depose him.

Given the choice, we, the membership, chose not to elect the person that we saw as the architect of you ridding us of our hero, instead voting for the alternative candidate. Instead of aligning the party behind her and trying to move forwards with governing, you did, in my opinion, collude to rid us of our chosen candidate so as to inflict on us the one that we did not want.

Whilst he may have been an adequate manager, he was no leader, and the shenanigans that you had put the party through had destroyed confidence in the party so that when the 2024 general election came around a Labour victory was assured.

Reform is not a credible threat if the Tories can emerge from the ashes of the past and reclaim the right of politics. Sniping at Mr F is a waste of time and only drags the party down to his level. You need to rise above that, show some leadership and demonstrate to the electorate that you are the best choice to run the country.

So, you have lost me as a member, but you will get my vote, simply because I abhor the politics of the left as they stand these days. Your problem is to persuade enough others to do the same. I see no evidence that you are even close to doing that. I am waiting.