Polly Toynbee has a piece in the Guardian today predicting that the catastrophes of recent times will see the Tories gone for a generation. Well I'm not so sure. This is an extract from a reader's comment on the article which exactly reflects what I think.

"I was SURE the electorate would never vote to cut ties with our closest and biggest trading partner and deny themselves free movement. I was SURE that no one could ever, seriously, with a straight face, vote for a comical ridiculous buffoon of an Etonian caricature to lead the country. I was SURE that absolutely no one could ever, seriously, with a straight face, endorse Thick 'This. Is. A. Disgrace!!' Lizzy as a world leader. Every time you put faith in the English electorate, you're setting yourself up for massive disappointment.

Best case scenario? Labour scrape a slim majority at the next election, and find themelves faced with a country absolutely destroyed by the scorched earth of 2 years of Trussonomics. No way they can fix it in 5 years, by which time the Tories will have a new face at the helm with a "bold, new vision" who has spent years shifting onto Labour the blame for everything wrong with the country they inherited, and the masses rush to tick their nice, familiar Tory box in 2029. Tories gone for a generation?? Not even if they slaughtered our first-born. England is inherently, irrevocably Tory."