It would be a “catastrophe” for the country if Boris Johnson won the next general election, a former Conservative chairman said, calling Tory lawmakers’ decision to keep him as leader a “terrible weakness”.
Chris Patton said that if the prime minister remained in office, it would “accelerate the disintegration” of the United Kingdom and make Scotland more likely to pursue independence.
Patton condemned the “madness and lies of this government,” adding that because Labor is still hampered by “fundamental weaknesses,” many people are left with a quest for a dignified, competent, generous, sensible political force in an environment that no one in Currently does not provide.
After Johnson survived a no-confidence vote but was opposed by 41% of his own MPs in a private vote, Patton said it showed “my party’s terrible weakness”.
Speaking to LBC radio, he said it was “really sad that the Conservative Party is divided between right-wing conservatives on Brexit and others” and that Johnson’s every move seems to be determined by his motivation to reassure the former group.
Patton declined to say whether he hoped the Conservatives would win the next election, but admitted: “I think for me the Conservatives, unless they change very radically, winning the next election will be a disaster for them and for us.
“Since I don’t think we have a conservative party at the moment, we have an English nationalist government with all the consequences and one you can’t trust.
Patton said of his preferred outcome of the next general election: “I would rather see a coalition to hold the union together, because I think this is a real threat. [If] if you want to ruin the union, you send Boris Johnson to Scotland.
Citing the government’s approach to the BBC, Patton said ministers were threatening the broadcaster and “trying to get the BBC to provide special services to the government in the way news is handled”.
He added: “We should not have anything to do with this and we should make a real fuss about it. And this is the problem that would make old-fashioned Tories like me want to vomit and want to see the end of this government.
Patton, a contemporary of the Conservatives and chairman of the party during part of the John Major administration, also said Brexitists have tried to distance themselves from the consequences of leaving the UK from the European Union.
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He complains about the role played by Jacob Rees-Mogg, who is Brexit’s minister of opportunities.
Although Johnson’s position was severely hurt after a no-confidence vote earlier this month, he vowed to fight and lead the Conservatives in the next election.
He is now immune from a new no-confidence vote for 12 months. Although the Tory MPs responsible for setting the rules, who have been sitting in the Committee since 1922, may consider reducing the period to six months, which means that another vote could be held around Christmas.
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