The Revenge of the Bitterest Remainers; are anti Brexit plotters within the Conservative Party so divorced from reality, so utterly vain they would risk catastrophe for Britain, Boris Johnson isn’t just the Prime Minister of the UK, he is the people’s Prime Minister, the usual suspects sending no confidence letters to the 1922 Committee are a disgrace, they are the relics holding back a progressive Global UK

Ever since David Cameron stepped down as Prime Minister, there seemed only one man who could take the reins and steer the United Kingdom out of the European Union. It took the election of Theresa May to drive that concept foremost in the minds of Conservatives and the British public. That man was Boris Johnson. Boris is far from perfect, but the imperfections when added all up, tally all up, that he is “our” Prime Minister. Boris Johnson’s record as PM is an evolving record, but when the dust settles, he will secure his place in history as probably the best Conservative leader since Margaret Thatcher. I suspect he will be seen as the people’s Prime Minister in a way that neither David Cameron nor Theresa May could ever have achieved. Brexit was a campaign I fought for, it was a campaign I helped win. In Scotland, a million people voted leave, what made this all the more remarkable was, we were a small band of people, we have few resources but what we did have was a cause and a passion. We fought against the entire party machines of Labour, SNP, Conservatives, Lib Dems and Scottish Greens, our result was a key factor which helped push Brexit over the winning line.  

The job done, it was left to the politicians to enact the will of people, immediately David Cameron resigned unwilling to finish the job he had put in motion; and Theresa May contribution as the next Prime Minister was seen by many as an act of sabotage. She left Number 10 in tears, forced out because she was a PM in lockstep with the EU, not the British people. We had voted to leave the EU, but Theresa May decided for whatever reason to keep us aligned to the EU. She found out the will of the people wouldn’t stand for her games. You can feel sad for her, she may have turned out to be a better Prime Minister than she actually was, but the betrayal of democracy, of the people’s vote ended her. It was to usher in the most important Prime Minister of the modern era. Boris was the man for the job, at the right time and the right place, he was a proven winner. 

In politics, people don’t take defeat well, in the case of Brexit, the remainers were livid, and since the result of 2016, they have constantly plotted revenge. Despite the evidence that the EU was treating the UK badly, this doesn’t matter to them, the leaders of the plotters range from ex Labour PM Tony Blair to Conservative Peer Ruth Davidson. Although this may seem a broad church, it is a remarkable small one; these people are the privileged elite. Every reason for voting leave in 2016 is still valid; the case for leave is even stronger as the EU moves closer to a super state. So, what is in it for Tony Blair, or Ruth Davidson to have the sovereignty of the UK weakened? I think for Blair, that question is easy, power; working out Davidson’s angle is more difficult. Does she see herself perhaps elevated to EU Commissioner? One thing the Scottish Conservatives have to wake up too is that 2022 isn’t 2017, they have to wake up to the notion that Scotland’s place is part of the UK, and the direction of travel is Global UK. Although the Scottish Conservatives made much of Ruth Davidson campaigning in the Council elections of 2022, the results speak for themselves. In Glasgow, only 2 Conservative Councillors were elected, of the original 7 elected in 2017, only one incumbent was returned. 

2022 was a disaster for the Scottish Conservatives at the ballot box, they had publicly shunned Boris Johnson, and the effect didn’t sit well with Conservative members and voters. Adam Tomkins, former MSP was to later remark that the defeat had nothing to do with Boris Johnson. If that is the case, then whose fault was it? Just as there is a witch hunt for trying to get rid of Boris Johnson, and Ruth Davidson is seen very much as a senior cheerleader, there is disquiet by Conservatives outside the Holyrood and Westminster bubble about Ruth’s gang and influence. 2022 tells its own story about leadership in Scotland. 

Thinking back to Jeremy Corbyn, you may remember the attempt by the right wing of the Labour Party to oust him. Their method wasn’t new, it was the drip drip of resignations, the idea is that each individual resigning is an entity all by themselves when in fact the resignations were pre-planned in an attempt to inflict the maximum damage on a leader. The same method of death by a thousand cuts is being used against Boris Johnson. When I see this, I look up and research the person, and a pattern emerges, ‘remain’ MPs who were anti Brexit and anti Boris form a notable cluster. The ‘remain’ attackers clearly show that a section of the Conservative Party would willingly try and bring the UK Government down for their own ends, and destroy Boris Johnson. The goal of these people is exactly the same as the Labour Party; return the UK to EU control. In many ways it reminds me of militant tendency in the Labour Party, were a party within a party operated. 

These people hatred of Boris Johnson is so great within the Conservative Party that they have no problem in trying to repeat the history of when Margaret Thatcher was deposed as Prime Minister. Margaret Thatcher was deposed but the party never recovered under John Major, it limped on until 1997.  We are still some way from a repeat of that history but we cannot rule out that this incomprehensible regicide might happen. It might happen because some people who are Conservative MPs may lose their nerve. In order to oust Boris, there is a process, letters by sitting MPs must go to the 1922 Committee and once 54 letters are put in a leadership contest can happen. If you ask who is capable of standing, well, probably there are many people who could put themselves forward, but I would say none who would be seen as the people’s Prime Minister. Maybe given time, Chancellor Rishi Sunak could be the man for the job, but the heat over his family’s financial affairs, make him a bit too radioactive, for the post. People mention Liz Truss, others mention Jeremy Hunt but neither of these people would get the public’s confidence, especially Jeremy Hunt. Hunt in my mind is like Gove; he is senior but carries too much baggage for the top job. 

Boris Johnson is a proven winner, he as Prime Minister has a track record of getting things done. He steered Brexit through, he vanquished Corbynism, although in part he was helped by the right wing of the Labour Party who sabotaged Labour’s campaign in 2017. This in part caused Boris to win by a landslide; he delivered a vaccine, and has led the world in the defence of Ukraine. Boris is people’s Prime Minister, on the domestic scene, he gave a £20 uplift to people on Universal credit, he gave furlough money to save people’s jobs, he gave grants to self employed people when covid closed everything down for an extended period. This alone should be enough to wake up nervous Conservative MPs who are gullible enough to think joining the ‘remainer revenge’ squad is a good idea.   

Boris Johnson as Prime Minister is sitting on a huge raft of stunning achievements.      

The hook which the 'remainers' are pinning their hopes on is partygate, and a series of other people’s self-inflicted scandals. Partygate was a PR disaster, but when you view it outside the Westminster bubble, is Boris to really fall for eating a cake, or have a break with people he already worked with in a bubble? The lockdown soirees in No 10, they should never have happened, especially when draconian measures were inflicted on the public, and some people received huge disproportionate fines, and others never got to save goodbye to loved ones. I don’t care much for partygate, but I do care about how rules were drafted that were so bad and not based on science but other people’s Orson Welles mumbo jumbo. Boris Johnson as the  PM rightly has taken full responsibility and said sorry but for the remainers hell bent on revenge, sorry will never be enough. Leading the charge in the Commons is Keir Starmer as in Labour leader, beer and curry breaking lockdown rules Keir Starmer. If Boris has to resign, why isn’t multi millionaire Keir Starmer doing the same, where is him showing leadership? Starmer is a hollow man; he is a puppet for the right wing of the Labour Party, a bad puppet. 

Boris Johnson is extraordinary, but you have to say, not perfect, but ask yourself this, which other PM would have announced a £21 billion package to help those struggling with their bills. And to be clear as crystal when it was announced that the government was giving help, I was of the opinion, it would be a few quid, my shock was it turned out to be far more generous than anyone expected. Boris has crossed a barrier which few Conservatives before him have ever done; he is reconnecting the Conservative Party with sections of the working class vote that would be reasonably expected to be fertile ground for the Labour Party. He will go down in history for breaking the red wall, given time and support; he could also break up the foundations of Labour’s base support. Who else in the Conservative Party could have achieved that extraordinary feat? Boris has shown he is good on domestic policy and foreign policy which places him ahead of David Cameron and Theresa May. 

Finally, here is a question; do you want to see the Labour Party forge an alliance or pact with Nicola Sturgeon's SNP? London Labour would sell out Scotland in a heartbeat which would be the end of the Union. The Labour Party cannot be trusted on the Union and it cannot be trusted on Brexit. Labour seeks to destroy the Union via federalism which no one wants, or is even asking for. London Labour knows nothing about Scotland which can be clearly seen by the way they talk about Scotland. They live in a fantasy that there will be a return to the days of Blairism, their glory years; every bad decision which has impacted Scotland in real terms was caused by London Labour, devolution being the biggest political and financial mistake in the modern history of Scotland. The people have a Prime Minister, he isn’t perfect, he makes mistakes, he will make mistakes in future, but the real nub is he is our Prime Minister, a PM for all seasons.