The sooner the ERG fucks off and joins with Tommy Robinson advised UKIP, the better
That won't happen, but what could is this scenario taken from Con Home:
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One of the main reasons why the SDP failed was because, under our first the post electoral system, challenges to the established parties from the bottom up face formidable obstacles. This might be less true of change from the top down. In a general election under the circumstances we describe, May would control the Party, the money, the manifesto – and, ultimately, the selection process. ERG members and some other Conservative MPs would not support a manifesto committed to a second referendum.
Is it too speculative to imagine a Tory Party which has lost those MPs – and much of its activist base – but gained a mass of Blairite ones? And then to go on to think of the Party changing its name to reflect this development? And of any new rival right-of-centre party having to set up from scratch, without a durable claim to the Party’s name, infrastructure or assets?
Perhaps. But these are strange times. And building an SDP Mark Two from the top down – in which Gavin Barwell would end up rubbing shoulders with Alastair Campbell, Rudd with Yvette Cooper, Lidington with Chuka Umunna and, yes, May with Tony Blair, as the
Evening Standard smiles on – would be a great deal easier than doing so from the bottom up.
To those who say that all this is far too fanciful, we quote not Cook, but Erasmus – as we gaze on the hatreds consuming the Conservative Party, and bubbling away within Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour. Erasmus was contemplating those tearing apart the Church. “The long war of words and writings,” he observed, “will end in blows.”