MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Get a grip, Boris or Blairite elite will destroy this country forever

Tony Blair is back. He may be too unpopular to ever stand for a high office again, but the newly formed Knight of the Garter still thinks he can pull the strings of the minor figures now leading the Labor and Liberal Democratic parties. And he may be right.

Blair now has more money than he could ever spend and also a large real estate empire. But he has enough time, and so, at 69, his mind returns to his political legacy.

As he explained to Andrew Neil yesterday in our sister newspaper, the Daily Mail, Blair longs for a new European-style alliance of radical forces.

He and his allies call it ‘centrism’, but it is in fact an extremely revolutionary program, followed by people claiming that their Europhile red-green ideas, a mixture of windmills, sexual revolution, open borders and high taxes are the mainstream is.

Of course, they are not mainstream at all, but a continental-style voting system, the undoubted key to Blair’s ‘Future of Britain’ dream. It would be a revolution, placing anti-conservative radicals in permanent power at Westminster, as it has done in many continental countries, especially Germany.

And that is the threat we face. Sir Keir Starmer, Blair’s disappointing heir, is likely to ever win a working majority. But with Lib Dem support, he could easily form a government after the next election. Its central purpose would be an electoral system that would break up the existing parties, especially the Tories, and thus allow Britain’s Blairites to form an endless succession of post-election coalitions.

Voters could not prevent or remove such alliances because they would be negotiated after the votes were counted. This is a great danger to our national future. Only the Conservative Party can stop this from happening.

There is a point in every government, like the crest of a rollercoaster, where the whole nature of the ride changes. For a few years, ministers and MPs can indulge themselves and pursue pet projects or personal ambition. But then it all changes. Suddenly it’s all about the next election. There is no room for indulgence. Even ambition must be stifled, because in opposition ambition has few outlets.

And the other problem with opposition is that it can take a very long time. In the present case, defeat could mean permanent exclusion, the end of centuries of alternate governments and the beginning of an era of so-called proportional representation, in which the elite are those represented, out of all proportion to their numbers. Under such a method, voters would lose their old power to throw out leaders they did not like. So the upcoming campaign could not be more important.

We have asked before why the Tory party, our bulwark against the Blairites, seems to have a death wish, just at the moment when the country needs to be most defended against the destructive, extravagant, vigilant and incompetent leftists. Now we must also ask why it seems that the Prime Minister is so incapable of getting a grip on these events.

The Pincher affair, in which he was slow to act and made faint excuses for his supposed ignorance of the problem, made him look weak and foolish. There is no more room or time for this kind of unprofessional mess.

For the sake of Britain, for the Union itself and our historically unique and vibrant form of democracy, Boris Johnson and the Parliamentary Conservative Party must rediscover discipline, purpose and competence – and quickly.