Last year the Tories won a huge byelection victory in Hartlepool. At that point their command of the political map was absolute, and growing stronger all the time - they were riding high in the polls, they were up against a feeble opposition, they had the media in their pocket, and they were rapidly consolidating their hold by drawing up boundary changes, taking control of elections, and disenfranchising the poor. They basically looked unbeatable.
And then Partygate happened.
It turns out that the British people don't, after all, like being taken for fools. They don't like being lied to, and given the runaround. They don't like being instructed to make sacrifices, some of them truly terrible, only to have those who make the rules break the rules and then crow about it.
And they don't like that Boris absolutely and completely refused to take the fall that was unquestionably coming.
Last night the Tories suffered two utterly crushing byelection defeats. It is likely, if there were to be a General Election in the near future, that they would be utterly devastated, to the extent that even Boris and Jacob Rees-Mogg would lose their seats.
The game is up, and all because Boris and Carrie just couldn't bear not to party in the pandemic.
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