Undelivered Brexit promises, a disastrous Truss Premiership, a chaotic Covid enquiry, and a poorly conceived Cabinet reshuffle all spell devastation for the Tories this coming election.

When David Cameron stood outside Number 10 Downing Street, after his party won enough seats in the 2010 General Election to form a coalition with the Lib Dems and end the thirteen-year reign of the Labour Party, he promised a government that would lead to ‘real change’ for the country. Well, I suppose we can’t say they didn’t warn us.

The polls appear to agree that the party that was once considered the greatest modern political party in the world will see its electoral success come to a cataclysmic end, as a result of a thirteen-year streak of open displays of incompetence and chaos.

When asked to point to the beginning of the end for the Conservatives, one will most likely look towards Cameron’s resignation following the 2016 European Union referendum. Cameron immediately gunning for the Downing Street exit essentially served as an admission that he had brought about an unprecedented transformation to the United Kingdom’s economy without any contingency plans or intention to deal with the unfathomably complex task of leaving. Cameron’s resignation, along with Nigel Farage’s timid concession that the EU membership fees would not be used to fund the NHS, led to the UK asking the same question: “Wait, what did we just sign up for?”

This is where Theresa May stepped up to answer the question. May vowed to deliver a ‘red white and blue’ Brexit that was in the best interest of the country. What we got instead, was an excruciating game of ping-pong where every Brexit withdrawal agreement she submitted to Parliament was spat back in her face like saliva-soaked broccoli from a six-year-old. May tried repeatedly to secure some form of Brexit, but as the saying goes: ‘If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try, try, quit.’

In 2019, Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party secured a huge government majority, after his promises of ‘Getting Brexit Done’ (ie. ‘over with’), were far more appealing to voters than Corbyn’s vague neutrality on the matter. A massive presence in Parliament and an opposition party in oblivion should have resulted in the golden age for the Conservative Party; a chance for the Johnson administration to forge its legacy and craft Britain into the exemplar of centre-right economic prosperity. There was just one small hiccup, or rather, a continuous cough, high temperature, and shortness of breath.

The Covid-19 pandemic sabotaged any chances of the Johnson administration ever being seen as positive in the eyes of history. If the PPE scandal and the administration’s contradictory regulations bent the public’s trust, it was partygate that finally broke it. Videos of MPs closely gathered, getting mad with it, and howling at jokes regarding their own rule-breaking and hypocrisy, was the straw that broke the nation’s back.

The ongoing Covid enquiry is less an investigation into the Government’s conduct during the pandemic and more of a horror show, telling tales of the most powerful people in the country struggling to reign in a dangerously inept Prime Minister, whose ability to alienate his entire administration and refusal to listen to his advisers ended up killing thousands of the people he was elected to protect. Former Downing Street director of communications, Lee Cain, claimed Johnson had the ‘wrong skillset’ to deal with the pandemic, the same way a monkey’s ability to shriek and fling faeces may be the ‘wrong skill set’ to safely land a packed commercial airliner.

The Pincher scandal is ultimately what did Boris in. Revelations that he joked about an MP’s repeated sexual harassment towards staffers caused his cabinet to finally recognise Johnson as a liability, cut their losses, and put the country into the safe and secure hands of Liz Truss. Liz Truss then proceeded to devastate the UK economy. Truss and Kwartang’s proposed mini-budget led to the value of the pound against the dollar dropping to the lowest in recorded history, which destroyed the Conservative’s mantra for economic literacy.

This leads us to today, with Rishi Sunak keeping the Number 10 seat warm for Keir Starmer. Sunak’s attempts to save the party from their inevitable demise have ultimately proved to be fruitless. Suella Braverman’s rogue Times article, her sacking, and her highly critical letter to Sunak have painted the picture of a PM unable to control his cabinet.

At this year’s Conservative Party Conference, Sunak and his administration attempted a populist revival, with constant appeals to the working people of the country and a willingness to distance themselves from political elites and the career politicians of Whitehall. Sunak would then go on to hire political elitist and career politician David Cameron as Foreign Secretary, which immediately killed any prospects of moving on from previous mistakes or separation from the past thirteen years of incompetence.

The Conservative Party is now a party in freefall, without a semblance of political direction to save it. The results from this upcoming election are the culmination of years of repeated falsehoods, ineptitude, and apathy for the betterment of the country. When the party is demoted to the opposition, it will ultimately have to reinvent itself, and once that happens, we can only hope that this will be the end of this rancid version of the Conservative Party.