There's something I'd like to get to as well, right, which is splits.

I tend to think that, you know, the Tory party is known to be very united, sort of

comparatively, generally united enough to do what it needs to do, and then has enough authority

in it that it can manage what it needs to manage, and then it can externalize

its contradictions by lurching to the right, which it's perfectly comfortable with.

And so I think it's always the more interesting question is where some of the weaknesses are,

right? So this is something that, this is a quote from a hedge fund billionaire who gives

lots and lots of money to the Tories. He's given them more than

three million pounds in the past. And this is his assessment of the party generally. Now, he donated

to Bad Knock. So he's not someone who's totally disillusioned with the entire thing. He does think

that there is a direction here that's worth going in. But if you sort of leave that to one side for a second,

I think given that sort of the main constituency of the party is city, is sort of city finance capital.

Yeah, whose thing is that they want to make money and they don't care about toilets, right?

And because whose main thing is their city finance capital is the main constituency, that sort of thing that

the last sort of several years has been, it's not been a split between people of different

meaningful political tendencies because most of these things aren't really that democratic anyway,

but a split in capital and where the Tory party is going to support. This is what John Armitage

has said. He says,

In the Westminster bubble, most MPs and commentators don't realize what deep shit the conservatives are in. I think people in the country are fed up with a regime that tolerated a dishonorable

prime minister, that Brexit has actually happened and the debate has moved on to doing something

about it and making it good. And I think people are fed up with what you call boosterism, or you call it policy by press release where nothing actually happens.

And I think that third point is the one that I come to most closely.

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