To think we can take our country back?

[wheresmymojo]

Here we are - stuck in some kind of batshittery where we're going to have Boris Johnson as our PM, we're going to leave the EU and our only 'friend' will be a man with a shit toupee who thinks sexual assaulting women is something to brag about.

I've been watching it all unfold and feeling helpless while the country I love descends into madness at the hands of a bunch of mainly white, rich, male arseholes who don't even know what the truth is anymore.

But it's occurred to me that there are only 160,000 Conservative party members. In the whole scheme of things that's nothing compared to the number of Mumsnetters!

I know the Tories have been shysters but imagine if we could join the party and push it towards compassionate Conservatism.

I realise this still wouldn't be everyone's bag - but surely it would be better to have a party of compassionate Conservatives than the shite we currently have moving ever further to the right.

It's too late to avoid Brexit and too late to avoid Boris but if anyone on Mumsnet who has ever previously voted Conservative joined the party we could organise, join forces with lovely Rory the Tory, put our best 'stern Mother'* faces on and tell the hard righters to fuck off to some horrible little niche party which will never get into power.

It's £2 a month to join - together we could actually make a huge difference to the country while putting the gender balance to rights at the same time.

Isn't it worth it just to see the faces of Mark Francois, The Mogg et al?

Imagine what we could do to turn around the party's education policies!

Think Momentum but made up of nicer human beings with fairer tactics and better hair.

What do you think?

*You don't need to be a mother to do a stern mother face, I don't have children yet as TTC

From the ‘17 election, 598 of 650 MPs were white so 92%. 442 of 650 MPs were male so 68%.

From the ‘17 election, 598 of 650 MPs were white so 92%. 442 of 650 MPs were male so 68%

That ignores specific differences re race. BAME people are overwhelmingly younger than white people. and MPs are likely to be older people because they’re at the pinnacle of their career, not the bottom.

Yes this whole "TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK" mantra is a bit dumb isn't it? who are we taking it back from? and how far back do we go? are we reclaiming it from The Normans? The Saxons? The Romans?

The Beaker People??

We'd get Spain, bits of France and Germany if we did that.

If people followed the principle of GIVING FOLK THEIR LAND BACK all modern Americans would be cluster fucked, wouldn't they? If that ain't a country built on stolen land I dunno what is.

We'd have an influx here of Australians, New Zealanders, Americans, Canadians, South Africans etc.... It'd be one heck of a party. Then we'd really have to talk about overcrowding.

See the way I read it is that now the country’s immediate future is in the hands of the 160,000 members of the Tory party. So when OP talks about “taking the country back” she’s talking about bringing a more moderate voice into that group, and hopefully influencing current policy away from the ultra-right wingers who the party are currently focused on placating. Hyperbole about how she wants to take land back from immigrants etc seems completely misplaced.

Sounds logical - but I couldn't join the torys. Partly because I'm hanging on in there with my Labour party membership to try and vote Corbyn out if we lose another election.