Dr David Starkey
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first heard Jun 2026
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And I remain a member of the Conservative Party.
He spoke.
Get the fuck out of here.
And then what I do is, that's fine.
I've been honest with you.
You will be honest with me.
Come on.
Hands up.
Everybody was a member of the Conservatives.
half the hands go up.
I say, right, keep them up.
How many of the rest of you have voted conservative?
Virtually every hand goes up.
So what we're dealing with, we're dealing with a genuine war within conservatism as to what it actually is, what it means, what its relationship with the past, what its relationship with the desired future,
what it thinks is worth carrying forward, what it thinks has gone wrong.
It's exactly the kind of debates that happened in the middle of the 1970s and even more so in the middle of the 19th century after the great reformer, the great clash between Robert Peel and Benjamin Disraeli.
Because I think it is possible that it won't.
If we head down the route that we are doing now, we face national bankruptcy.
That's one thing.
In other words, we face, if we're lucky, something like the IMF intervention of 1976, although I think our situation is very, very much worse.
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