Are Tories Still Conservative? | Rory Stewart on the Tory Leadership (Part 2)

Over the course of a decade, Rory Stewart went from being a political outsider to standing for prime minister - before being sacked from a Conservative Party that he had come to barely recognise.
Uncompromising, honest and darkly humorous, this is his story of the challenges, absurdities and realities of political life. Instantly praised as a new classic, it is an astonishing portrait of our turbulent times.
To watch the rest of the event see below.
Part 1 - Politicians Become Creepy and Dishonest https :// • Politicians Become Cre...
Part 2 - Are Tories Still Conservative? | Rory Stewart on the Tory Leadership • Are Tories Still Conse...
Part 3 - “Who Knows Kier Starmer’s Economic Policy?” • "Who Knows Keir Starme...
Part 4 - Rory Stewart on Ukraine, Russia, Brexit, Scottish Independence and Northern Ireland. • Rory Stewart on Ukrain...
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[@leejeromejardinejohnson8431]

"Well he's not Ceasar is he" - Roy Stuart. That's probably the best you can say about Boris at this point. 😂😂😂😂😂

[@hammondpickle]

Rory Stewart is great. Lifelong not-a-Conservative here and I'll disagree with a lot of his policies, but he stands by his principles even when others are selling theirs to the highest bidder. As the current Tory party wanders off and phones up Hugo Boss to design their new corporate attire, whatever replaces them in the rational centre needs people like Rory.

[@stephfoxwell4620]

No he doesn't. He's considering joining the Green party.

[@wastag9412]

@@stephfoxwell4620 Someone clearly doesn't understand the One Nation or Burkian tradition, then, that would probably be more aligned with the Greens or Starmer's Labour than with the current Tories. A Conservative party did exist before Thatcher, y'know.

[@stephfoxwell4620]

@@wastag9412 The Greens are the most M*exist party in Western Europe.

[@tunes012]

@@wastag9412 It would most definitely not be aligned with Starmer's party as it currently stands.

[@sphinx1017]

The extreme privilege of politicians depresses me hugely. 'Ordinary' taxpaying people don't even figure in Westminster. Serving 'us' is no longer part of government.

[@Birko64]

The only thing that springs to mind about Teresa May is the "Hostile Environment" policy which she brought in as Home Secretary and the so called Windrush scandal. People who had built their lives here in the UK, whose children and grandchildren were born the UK and had every right as British commonwealth citizens in the 1950's and 60's, had brought Britain back to a functioning society after WWII and even Caribbean veterans who served in the British armed forces in the UK during WWII, had their whole lives stripped away. Some were even deported to countries they had only known as tiny children.

[@vatsmith8759]

Surely we need a hostile environment for every sort of lawbreaking, not just illegal immigration?

[@heycidskyja4668]

It was a hostile environment for those who were here illegally or who had not informed the Home Office of their status. It would be expected policy of any sensible government.

[@JackGladstoneHolroyde]

She talks in detail about this in her interview on Leading. She accepted that the approach was wrong and appeared to show real contrition and evidences what work she has done since to try and put it right. I can't stand her personally, but worth a listen.

[@mogznwaz]

Should have done their paperwork then like everyone else. And this lie about Windrush needs to be corrected. A few thousand Caribbean immigrants wanting a better life, mostly in a couple of areas of London where they serviced their own ‘community’, did not ‘rebuild Britain’. The British people built and rebuilt Britain. I know and love a lot of well integrated people with Caribbean heritage. No problem. But that immigration also brought us Yardies, drug crime, riots and the creation of non British ghettos with their own rules. NOT positive.

[@Zaxon-Anglo]

Are the Tories, still normal functioning human beings is my question?

[@RanmaSyaoranSaotome]

Don't dehumanise them, because that's what they do to everyone else to achieve their vile aims.

[@Visherex]

Rory really is ace

[@tommymorrison6478]

The Tories haven't been conservative since Thatcher's time.

[@elkpaz560]

Thatcher started the rot. Liberalised the economy, sold off the family silver ultimately to foreigners in a global market.

[@aalexjohna]

Rory is a cross between Norman Wisdom and Shergar chewing an extra strong mint.

[@davidgormley7990]

I think that's fair.

[@willjennings7191]

I think the answer is in the difference between the words 'orthodoxy' and 'dogma'.

[@chriselliott726]

I increasingly find myself liking Rory .... and then I remember he's a Tory.

[@elkpaz560]

You need to ask yourself why you enjoy such simple divisions in life.

[@chriselliott726]

@@elkpaz560 I generally don't, just Tories.

[@elkpaz560]

@@chriselliott726 Your 'other.'

[@noneofyourbizness]

14:40 YES, YES & 1000 YES !

[@Isewein]

2:15 I sure hope what Rory actually wrote was a "17th century French cardinal" - can't think of any particularly noteworthy 18th century ones.

[@gordonholding5621]

You need to start by understanding money and how it is created.

[@seanoconnor8843]

Sign me up

[@kevoreilly6557]

Yes Rory, they’re the self-serving ruthless takers they have always been

[@LAD907]

This 'Tories aren't conservative' rubbish belongs in the Bin. There are no excuses

[@jasonkingshott2971]

Is this guy still bitter of being a failed conservative politician?

[@indricotherium4802]

The Tories, we hope, are about to shrink dramatically in importance for a good while at least, so who cares how they should be labelled? More relevant is how a Labour Party, whose policy platform is now a virtual clone of a moderate Tory one, has the front to go on trading under the misnomer"Labour". A change is overdue and I would propose: The Convergative and Non-Union Party

[@mattharrison5220]

And in a nutshell this is why the conservatives are where they are now - what a wet!

[@erongi233]

I favour Theresa May as well as she didn't go to Eton. Here we have another Old Etonian criticising other Old Etonians. It really is outrageous at least if you live outside the UK where it is just taken for granted.

[@tanjanikola9489]

Eton doesn't make people good or bad. It is up to the individual what kind of values they hold.

[@erongi233]

@@tanjanikola9489 a certain class generation after generation goes to Eton. A class which because of largely inherited money has a feeling of entitlement and indeed the system makes them more likely to get the better paid jobs enabling them generation after generation to obtain preferential treatment over the 93% who went to state schools Are you telling me that Harry for example belongs to the 0.01% intellectually superior part of the population?

[@EnglishRezident]

@@erongi233 It's an intellectual entitlement too - you take Eton, multiply it by going to Oxford and then put it through the diplomatic service and they really do believe it's just a case of Rory dropping in to observe a situation in order for him to be able to explain everything to everyone. Wrap it in all that faux modesty, always ready to have a laugh at my own expense and it's very sickening.

[@advocate1563]

Asking a non-conservative whether the party is consrrvative? You seem a bit confused by terms.

[@CommonSwindler]

“Well he’s not Caesar is he”-And you’re not Cato the Younger, Rory. You missed your chance to matter and now we all have to hear about it endlessly dressed up in your vain moralizing.

[@davidgormley7990]

Harsh, but fair.

[@Isewein]

Actually, that sounds like Cato Jun. to a T.

[@gravitaslost]

Lol. You're asking him? Was he ever one?

[@Visherex]

An MP 😂

[@gravitaslost]

@@Visherex Ran for PM as well, but I'm still not convinced! :)

[@Visherex]

@@gravitaslost 😂😂😂😂

[@paulies5407]

Rory's never been a conservative. What does he know?

[@fredjones234]

He describes him self as center left ! Nothing Conservative about him

[@RanmaSyaoranSaotome]

He is, because he voted like one.

[@korenmoscovich4681]

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