The speech by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the Conservative Party’s annual convention on Tuesday, October 6, should have been the main course of a great moment of media turmoil. But like the rest of the right-wing high mass in the country, it was broadcast online and was largely overshadowed by the news of Covid-19 and the latest fiasco of the national tracing system – nearly 50 000 contact cases have been lost in recent days due to a computer bug.
However, Mr Johnson would have needed a good bath of activist socialization, as the distance has widened with the Tory members and parliamentarians. He may have led his party to a historic victory in the general election of December 2019 and have a very large majority in the House of Commons, his muddled management of the Covid-19 pandemic and his style of government are openly criticized. and he now spends his time extinguishing the beginnings of fires in his own camp.
“The coronavirus crisis is a catalyst for change”, assured Boris Johnson on Tuesday, announcing a “Green revolution” to the Conservatives and a country that would become by 2030 “Saudi Arabia of wind power”. In the previous days, he had made many appearances with a construction helmet on his head, cultivating an image of a builder and bearer of good news, repeating the new Downing Street slogan, “Build back better” – “Let’s rebuild better”, in French.
Attacks of the “libertarian” current
“We are living through the biggest disaster since 1945: can we seriously believe that by investing £ 160 million [175 millions d’euros] in offshore wind farms [les sommes avancées par Downing Street], are we going to forget all that? “, however sighed a Tory deputy, quoted anonymously by the site Politico Tuesday morning. The Daily Telegraph, however far right, preferred to insist on the last Conservative rebellion in the House of Commons: dozens of deputies would like to lift the curfew imposed on British pubs and restaurants since the end of September.
In mid-September, Downing Street had already had to face a sling of elected conservatives opposed to his bill calling into question the terms of the divorce treaty with the European Union. Boris Johnson ended up promising a future right of scrutiny of Parliament after about fifty Tory deputies had said they were ready to vote against the health constraints imposed by his government. The Prime Minister is the target of attacks from a “libertarian” current of elected officials refusing any limitation of individual and entrepreneurial freedoms. But he has also been openly criticized for his supposed lack of leadership and competence.
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