Defeatists!
Sunak as PM provides an excellent opportunity. Tory support has collapsed to a 200 year low. Never in UK history has the Tory Party ever polled less than 30% in a general election, they would have seriously struggled to achieve that had there been a general election today.
The wealthiest person in UK politics making “difficult decisions” affecting millions, during a cost of living crises in which ordinary people are struggling to feed themselves and keep warm in winter, is highly unlikely to boost Tory support.
The man with a tax-avoiding billionaire wife is the third prime minister since the last general election, he has no personal mandate from the UK electorate.
The Tories won the last general election on a promise of no austerity, they have no mandate for a different set of economic policies which involve cuts in public spending.
Opposition parties need to relentlessly denounce the illegitimacy of the 3rd Tory prime minister in 2 months and any attempt to introduce austerity without a mandate.
They need to mobilise public opinion so that any resistance on the part of the Tory government to put their policies to the British people simply increases their unpopularity.
The Tory Party is on the ropes like never before in history, they are extremely disunited and undergoing a crisis of ideology – the current Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer intends to increase taxes when less than 4 months ago he was passionately arguing that they should be slashed. The previous Tory Chancellor tried to do precisely that. They are disunited on basic economic policy. The public has no faith in their ability to maintain economic stability.
Now is not the time to sit back and let a Tory Party which is on its knees like never before get up.