Sitemap - 2023 - NATB’s Newsletter

'A very noisy year, but ultimately another complete waste of time' - 2023 was the year most voters completely lost their patience with the Conservatives

'Sunak's Blackpool Problem' - It's the nightmare AFTER Christmas that the Prime Minister should be most concerned about

A Hideous Distraction - How Sunak lost the Rwanda vote despite winning, and why the optics of dysfunction probably matter more

‘Electoral oblivion is probably the least they deserve’ - how Sunak’s government continues on its death spiral and why it might be over sooner than they think

'Sorry, not sorry' - Why Johnson’s appearance at the COVID Inquiry was so meaningless and hollow

A populist who is not popular, trying to do unpopular things - How Rishi Sunak finally lost his marbles in more way than one this week

‘Does anybody even remember the budget at this point?’ - How the Conservatives failed to reset and became completely derailed by their own ridiculousness... again

‘This is not working’ - Jeremy Hunt’s budget shows a more visible return to austerity laden with landmines and lies

The shelf life of anything Sunak does only usually tends to last around 48 hours anyway

'There's a sense of calm before the storm about it' - The Braverman conundrum and how Sunak lost an authority he never truly had

‘Empty,’ a ‘damp squib’, and filler - nothing more, nothing less - a King's Speech that shows a government on its way out

Some more thoughts on the COVID Inquiry and the politics behind it moving forward into 'King's Speech' week

A more simple truth is that none of them should have ever been even remotely close to power

The 'Right' way to proceed is the wrong way - but Sunak isn't listening and is rather quickly running out of time

Conservatives in Crisis: Why the Tories lost in Tamworth and Mid-Bedfordshire, and the reasons behind results that will almost certainly be replicated nationally

“Modular Britain, now!” - the problems inherent in the justice system highlight a broader, far more damaging contagion of public sector neglect

PM Disconnect: No bounce, no boost, and no meaningful change

Chaos and Dysfunction: Scenes from what was quite possibly the last Conservative Party conference

Shocking, appalling, reactionary, outrageous? Of course it is! And that’s the point of making such noise in the absence of policy

Apparently the Conservatives just need 'Rishi to be Rishi' - that'll solve it

‘What’s most dangerous in the run-up to election year is that most people have given up caring about what you say’ - what Sunak’s ‘Net Zero’ speech really meant, and its consequences

Liz Truss and her continued haunting of the Conservative Party

Looking ahead to the Conservative Party conference with 'Inaction Man' at the helm

'Not much optimism on the Horizon' - yet again, for Sunak, any air of positivity is immediately sucked out by the constant cycle of bad news

Concrete evidence of fiscal irresponsibility, or: 'Oops - the one where Gillian Keegan exposed the lie of austerity and 13 years of Tory Party policy'

The Conservatives are perfectly capable of making themselves look bad without Nadine Dorries' help, thank you very much

The Prime Minister's ignorance towards his wife's assets and investments does not excuse conflicts of interest where they obviously and so frequently exist

Rowing back: Even Sunak is admitting that his migration policy is unworkable

It wasn’t that ‘NHS Week’ was particularly chaotic; it’s just that virtually nobody knew it was 'NHS Week'

'Equal parts incompetence, wastefulness and viciousness designed to appeal to no-one, and probably not even designed to work at all' - a review of the government's chaotic Small Boats Week

Superfluous, embarrassing and extremely desperate: The attack lines and scattergun approach towards policy is just not working, Prime Minister

'But recess is supposed to be dull': How political turbulence - that wasn't supposed to exist - has shifted nothing where the majority of the public is concerned

Who needs priorities when we can have 'protections'? Rishiman to the Rescue!

You win some, ULEZ some: A truly bad night for the Conservatives and nothing, no matter how small the window, will prevent what awaits them

Hog Roasts and just counting down the days: It’s one last slog to recess and we’ve reached the 'Lord of the Flies' stage of the Conservative Party

Sunak's never-ending, perpetual doom loop of ‘bad weeks’ continues

When you have a Conservative Party this self-destructive, why intervene?

Sunak’s worst week since the last one, and the nightmare just continues

Man of the People at last, Rishi Sunak is finally in touch with many of us who have similarly given up

PM Disconnect: More volatility, no stability, and a big fat minus on favourability, Sunak 'totally, 100%' limps on

There’s a perfect storm heading Sunak’s way - just don't expect him to turn up to notice it

Not with a bang but a whimper, Johnson's political career is almost certainly over

How worried should Sunak be over private WhatsApp messages? Probably very - though maybe not for the reasons most think

Boris Johnson and the Attack of the Big, Red Lefty Menace Blob

In search of the government’s next boogeyman, and this time it could be you

I mean, it’s not as though Sunak has anything to hide... Right?

Stitch-ups and absolute nonsense - Why the Ghost of Boris Johnson still continues to haunt the Conservatives

‘It’s not a witch-hunt, Nigel’: The Rise and Fall… and Rise and Fall of the incompetent recidivist 'Speedy Sue' Braverman

Detached from Reality, or: How everybody apart from Rishi Sunak can see the iceberg yet the Prime Minister remains adamant that he’s delivering on people’s priorities

We're witnessing the slow, painful death of Conservatism and the irony is that most think they’re speaking an alien language

There’s blood in the water and the sharks are circling: lifting the lid on Sunak’s ‘Faction’ problem

Earth to Sunak, Come in Prime Minister: At some point Rishi Sunak is going to realise that most voters think he sounds delusional

Bad Nights & Bloodbaths: How it all fell apart for Rishi Su-knackered, and why

Why are the Conservatives expected to lose so badly in the Local Elections? It's simple - they appeal to nobody

Things could get out of control very, very quickly for Sunak - and just where the Hell was Suella Braverman, anyway?

'All About Me!' Raab's political obituary reveals a man whose incompetence is only surpassed by his arrogance

Birds of a Feather: Voters will notice that some things never change when it comes to the almost unique topic of 'Tory Sleaze'

Watch Out, Liz Truss is About: The Conservatives are as divided as ever

It's when Conservative voters begin to distance themselves from the party that the real problems begin

'Wicked, divisive, performative - but mostly useless': When crass race baiting and rhetoric over immigration meets reality, Part. 5150

Somebody needs to tell the Conservatives that there are local elections happening in May

Political Monkey Tennis: Er, there appears to be a consistent pattern forming here of policies ‘destined to fail’

We’re just not feeling it, Rishi: ‘Vibes’ and the powers of positive thinking don’t always give you the boost that you want, Prime Minister

'But when the Prime Minister does it then it is not illegal': How Boris Johnson succeeded in convincing nobody with his “flimsy” assurances

Britain Shrugs: By the end of this week, Rishi Sunak will likely be the angriest man in Britain

Less Rabbits, More Carrots on Sticks: This budget will not change what the Conservatives want to change

Cosplay Fascists: When noise distracts from unworkable policy

It's all about creating noise: the one where Johnson dead-catted Sunak and sent the Conservative Party's reputation further down the proverbial toilet in the process

Matt Hancock is just one from an entire system of government that failed the country

But what if we just don't care? The biggest issue for Sunak is that his deal won't make a difference where it counts

Far Right, Far Gone and Out: The Conservatives are divorced from reality over immigration

Many in Westminster need to understand that the politics of Northern Ireland is not a game

Scunnered: Nicola Sturgeon's resignation will terrify the Conservatives

‘Divided Parties Don’t Win Elections’ - the one where Sunak tried to make noise to disguise Tory Party infighting

Pointless: Why Sunak's reshuffle was 'so' bad and will do little to change his party's fortunes

She’s Back!

We were only trying to help, Prime Minister

'They just keep popping up!' - Why Zahawi's sacking is the beginning of the end for 'rage quit' Sunak

In Too Deep: Or, 'How really big scandals dwarf super naive politicians'

Zahawi, Johnson & The "Idiots": The problem Rishi Sunak has in both dealing with - and not dealing with - political scandals

Just say something, anything: when politicians make lots of noise because they have nothing else

Undoing their own doing: Re-examining the incompetence behind ‘Levelling Up’

Surrounded by Ghosts: How the Conservative Party haunts Rishi Sunak

‘Well we didn’t want to raise your hopes and expectations too much’ - Rishi Sunak & The Five Committments

Rishi Sunak's Millennial Problem: or, 'When there's nothing left to conserve, why vote Conservative?'

Strike action, potential sackings, factionalism, immigration, bad appointments and the state of the NHS: Sunak’s New Year in-tray of nightmares