Starmer supremacy, Farage comeback & Kemi's Conservative party – 2024 in review

During a 30-minute discussion among a group of respected intellectuals, they only debated how the show could have been performed, instead of recognising that they lost because they didn’t achieve the desired result. This country will continue to decline unless its politicians realise their job is not just for show; they must have the competence and vision to address the nation’s problems.

Still heaped in the old guard , they have not learned anything !

The Tories are centre left.

That's enough Gove, thanks

what I cant get over is that the media (and everyone it seems) are surprised at how bad labour are....

Loved the conversation, thanks very much!

How can anyone tolerate that snake Gove? I’d rather hire Gary Glitter as a babysitter than Gove as a “journalist”

The prolonged laugh at Michael‘s every funny is a bit much, Cindy. Best left for later in the afternoon at J. Sheekey. (Recommend the half dozen huîtres Jersey with a glass of Ruinart Blanc de Blancs.)

The difference between mere politicians and real leaders. Plenty of posers bur why have we no leaders?

The Tories’ problem is that they’re not Tories.

What a good watch!

I believe the new owner of the Spectator is an honorable, successful and very intelligent gentleman.

What, though, could possibly be the point of appointing someone like Michael Gove.
He will not command the respect of the readership.
And his “humor” is NOT funny.
I also note 📝 an increase in what I can only politely term as odd left wing or muddled articles.
For heaven’s sake please bring in a serious 🧐 person as soon as possible !
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It went wrong for the Tories from when they embodied UKLabour policies and Net Zero madness - good riddance

Michael Gove, characteristically disingenuous and called out bt by Quentin Letts.
Reform didnt split the Right. Those voters woukd have either stayed at home or given Labour an even bigger majority. And no mention of Immigration being the deciding issue.

15 minutes in and not a word about the Tory immigration disaster.

Katy Balls is actually right about Ashworth losing his seat being a moment of the year. Five sitting Labour MP's defeated by candidates who came from nowhere - complete nobodies. It could only have been achieved by muslim block voting. This is a harbinger of what is to come in the future. Pity they didn't have the courage to explore that more in their discussion.

Gosh…it’s all so funny…chuckle chuckle…ah well: there goes the future for your kids….🤢

Kemi versus Farage? A fight for a knife in an inflatable life-boat…

The Tories are not conservative but socialist. They are now led by a Nigerian woman called Olukemi Olufunto Adegoke, who has the persona so typical of black Nigerian women, which is arrogance.

The UK is a clown country in a death spiral to a dystopic, dysfunctional future. Absent profound grassroot dissent, this death spiral is likely unrecoverable.

I find it hard to laugh along with Gove given the damage he's done. He was chiefly responsible for the situation where we had the utterly useless Theresa May thrust upon us. She destroyed Brexit through her abysmal negotiations and landed us with thd albatross of net zero which is impovershing the whole country. He was also a lockdown zealot and therefore has a huge role in the societal and economic collapse that followed this stupendously ruinous policy.

As for the pompous Letts, Reform have far clearer andmore detailed policies than Labour or the Conservatives.

The Uk is finished

WHAT IS GOVE THERE FOR? He is known in Conservative circles as one of this country's worst traitors - a Brexit backstabber. Why is he editor of the Spectator? Why is he backing Badenoch to keep mass immigration going? You would do better not to have offensive individuals like Gove in your podcasts.

I truly believe the Conservative Party will never overcome the Johnson betrayal by the left wing and above all else the total and disastrous mass immigration betrayal. I believe this is the beginning of the end for them !!

Ms Badenoch is a sacrificial lamb. She has taken over after the worst defeat in their 200 hundred year history. What chance has she?

It’s highly encouraging that James Forsyth has not returned to this Parish - never knew a thing about actual politics. Don’t believe me? Ask his Best Man Rishi.

Gove was telling everybody who would listen that Kamala Harris would win the election???

Gee... I would have thought the Tories' mistake was their horrifically bad governance.

The policies of the Tories were wrong.. that is why rhey lost

Bunch of milqutoast losers.

Another, non-'Tory' Metro-establishment creature trundling out hackneyed drivel like "splitting the right-wing vote" when alluding to Reform UK. A wholly inaccurate claim on two counts. Firstly, that the wreck of a party he still infests has, since posturing Metro-elite quasi-liberal EUro-Quislings like Cameron hijacked it, no longer been "conservative" OR genuinely centre-right in the economic sense. Secondly that Reform IS both. 'Conservative' in that broader socio-political sense AND genuinely centre-rightist, economically. Not merely "right wing".

these clowns are at the centre of the universe, without a clue and not a conservative in sight

With all due respect, this is just London media bubble navel gazing from The Spectator; firstly, the Tories didn't mismanage their time in government - it was all deliberate. The Tories decided not to govern in the interests of the British people - but choose to accept the globalist agenda.

Well done Quentin calling out Goves cowardice in not standing again.

Katy balls is talking total rubbish. The reason the Tories lost was due to fifteen years of economic decline initiated and led by the disastrous austerity inflicted on the country by the right wing. The lack of growth and investment caused by those policies have crippled the country. The Tories will not get back in for at least ten years. Mind you if Reform get in with flat tax and tax breaks for those putting children in private education as some of their lunatic economic ideas, we might as well switch off the lights and close the door on the uk. Just allow those in the City of London to keep feeding off the dieing corpse.

The problem is Mr Gove is that due to your government Britain is a run down, shabby economy. Our GDP per head will soon be lower than Poland.

It’s immensely enjoyable to watch this show with each speaker vying to be the most posh stiff upper lip one while the Kingdom itself is rapidly descending into the most rabid Islamisthan🙄

It’s all a good laugh isn’t it Gove. You were one of the people that dragged us down to where we are now, and you think it’s hilarious.
You people make me sick

Reform a re-hash of the SDP in the 80's? You don't get out much, do you, Quentin?

Why the Chinese girl?

Gove is going to make it difficult for me to continue watching this channel.

How can Farage be the fresh face of British Politics & the comeback kid at the same time ? Voters have the memory of a goldfish .

I don’t think Reform will split the right, many Labour voters will vote for them and many folk who don’t usually vote will vote for them!
Farage is a great figurehead, but I think Rupert Lowe would make a great PM and if Suella came over she would for sure!

A battle for Britain is coming now we have so many people here who not share our history, culture and values and as Islamism rises with impunity.

Only Suella has been consistently vocal about this with Farage now backtracking.

Sorry, can't watch ANYTHING with Gove in it!

It wasn’t a landslide. They won with LESS votes than Corbyn lost with in 2019

hang on a second now, Gove was the instrumentla backstabbing slouth that took out Jhnson withthe help of his allies of course. So this whole dont question when the officer is leading the chargwe over the top of the trench. Because that is exactly what he did, exactly .

The Tories are dead if they think Kemi Badenoch, a Nigerian a participant in the Tory betrayal, has any hope of winning the trust of the British on immigration.

These commentators are very afraid of Farage. With good reason.

The Spectator has deteriorated now that Gove is involved. Such a shame.