Hello and welcome to Downstream, the show that if Andrew Breitbart's formulation of politics

being downstream of culture is true is essentially the bettun of sewage works of new left media.

Julius Naurere once said that the United States is also a one-party state but with typical

American extravagance they have two of them and it's been occurring to me for a while now if

the same might be applicable to the United Kingdom. Excluding Tony Blair's back-to-back victories,

the Tory party have governed the UK for all but 18 of the last 100 years and while the media

often presents elections as labors to lose, the truth is perhaps that Britain is a one-party

state which occasionally lets the other side have a go just in the interest of fairness and with

the heart-lipple by-election just a month away I'm joined by the journalist Sam L to discuss

how the Conservative Party became the most successful party operation in the Western world and what

it might take for the left to topple them. Sam, thank you so much for joining us today.

Thank you very much. Well, I understand that you've got a pressing engagement at roughly six o'clock

so we've got to wrap up 15 minutes early. Do you want to tell the audience what it is?

I mean to my shame, I'm cutting this interview short to go play Eggerside which I just

confess to Ash and she's dumped right in. I was like oh you know strictly between us off the record

what you're doing and I was like right I'm going to talk about that great away. I mean so in the

interest in the interest of disclosure I've been really angling to do the show for a long time

now and it's not actually my first attempt at doing it. Shortly before Christmas I was joined by

my Navara Bro skis James and Aaron to talk about what it is that makes the Conservative Party so

successful in this country and as we try to crack open this question it just slid into a conversation

about Keir Starmer and what the Labour Party does wrong and what it is they should do better

and it seems to me that you know the Conservative Party have been doing pretty well long before

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