Hello and welcome to Brokonomics now last week we had the election and it was a bit of a

watershed election the toys didn't do desperately well although not quite as badly as we

had hoped so I thought it's probably time to do the obituary of the

Conservative Party. Now for that I thought who do I know who really knows their

history of the Conservative Party and it has to be Apostolic Majesty. Apostolic

Majesty thank you so much for joining us.

Hello Dan, it's wonderful to be invited on and it's actually going to be quite a cheery stream even though some of you may have been

disappointed by the election results I'm actually very happy with what ultimately transpired.

So that's interesting a lot of us were disappointed but you've obviously come away with a bit of

reflection and you've got a ros your outlook why is that? Well if you consider

essentially what needed to be achieved for zero seats, a positive zero seats result would have been anything,

if we're going to take academic agents, mantra for this, anything under 100 seats, and a very good

night would have been anything under 50 receipts.

But you have to remember that the Conservative Party has never received fewer than 150 seats and the chances of turning majorities which in some cases were 60% or 70% and flipping them were very, very unlikely.

You also have to consider that there are people who have habitually voted conservative their entire life and has been proven in the election

will do so regardless of whatever insane and detrimental policies the Conservatives put out.

So the only way that Xerise could have been achieved is essentially two things happening. One is if reform was better organised and have more money behind it. as if labour ran a much more

if labour ran a much more effective campaign

with a more charismatic leader.

And I'm looking at this in the long term and conceiving of a time where

perceiving of a time where labour can also get zero seats.

And if you look at the margins and the fact that labor only received a third of the vote and has

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