NADINE DORRIES: Voting Reform may convey a Starmer dictatorship

Bored with the election already? One half of me just wants it all to be over and done with; the other is dreading the prospect of the elected Labour dictatorship we face when we wake on Friday, July 5.

Whatever happens, the Conservative Party is staring annihilation in the face.

If you have read my book, The Plot, you will know that I hold Rishi Sunak and those around him responsible for the Party’s fate. It’s because of their decision to bring down Boris Johnson.

There are others involved, of course: Michael Gove, a large number of Remainers and MPs like Mark Harper, who pompously denounced Boris saying: ‘I no longer think he is worthy of the great office he holds.’

They were aided and abetted by Left-wing broadcasters and journalists, and a group of unelected manipulators and fixers who’ve carried out dark arts at the heart of the Tory Party for many years.

This unholy alliance is still insisting that ‘it isn’t Rishi who caused this disaster, but Boris and then Liz Truss’. It’s a line that was put to me only days ago, when I sat on a panel on the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg politics show.

So let’s first demolish it for the nonsense it is, shall we?

As I wrote in my book, shortly before Boris was removed by MPs, we were only 4 percentage points behind in the polls. And given that we had been in power for 12 years at that point, it was a remarkable place for the Government to be.

That small deficit makes a mockery of another claim made to excuse Rishi Sunak from responsibility: that he hasn’t had time to turn things around.

What, a four point poll difference? Pathetic. Boris Johnson inherited a 17 per cent deficit from Theresa May and turned it around in six months. Rishi Sunak has had 20 months.

But, preferring to stick pins in their own eyeballs rather than admit they were wrong to get rid of Boris, these Party wreckers will continue until their dying gasps to utter their weaselly lies.

It’s enough to drive any true Tory to distraction. No wonder so many of you are angry about the situation and tempted to vote Reform.

I hear the same complaint everywhere. ‘What’s the point of me voting Conservative if MPs decide to remove the Prime Minister I voted for? That’s not democracy. Why should I bother? I voted for Boris. They can ‘eff off.’

Every word is heartfelt, full of exasperation, and true — and I get it.

But here’s the thing. On the morning of the 5th of July, Rishi Sunak will no longer be Prime Minister. He is finished. He may not even be an MP.

If he keeps his seat, he will remain Leader in name only until a new one is chosen by Conservative Party members.

I doubt he will immediately flee to America, as so many predict. He will have the decency to remain as a backbencher for a period of time — he has said he’s staying for five years but my guess is there will be a by-election in his Richmond and Northallerton constituency within two.

So, my plea is this. When you are casting your vote on July 4, forget all about Rishi. Forget, too, about the MPs who behaved so disgustingly in ousting Boris in exchange for a place around a cabinet table. Most of them will lose their seats.

And just accept it’s a foregone conclusion that Sir Keir Starmer will be Prime Minister in just a few weeks.

But what you must do is think of the future in the cold light of day, away from the heat of the election campaign. Think about the true consequence of voting Reform UK, and what it could mean by the time Rishi is long gone and sunning himself on a beach in Malibu.

Think about Starmer being Prime Minister with an Opposition Conservative Party which has so few seats that his power is unbridled and the country is run by an elected dictatorship.

The point is that voting Reform will not mean lots of Reform MPs. At most, there will be just a handful among 650 others. And Nigel Farage, nice as he is, might be one of them, after being elected in Clacton where he is standing.

Perhaps Farage will be a good local MP, spending his wintry Fridays in village halls listening to the woes of his constituents.

But he’s a man who loves the limelight and likes to spend time in the U.S. with his friend Donald Trump.

Voting Reform is not a harmless protest vote. For it could dramatically reduce the number of Tory MPs who bolster the strength of the Opposition and can act as a brake on Labour.

It is absolutely the case that a vote for Reform is a vote for Labour — and could lead to that elected dictatoship. Think what the consequences would be. Whatever the Party claims today, I’d say it’s almost certain that capital gains tax will be applied to primary residence house sales.

Labour has never been the party of home ownership, despite what Angela Rayner would have you believe. If you think you may want to move house at some stage, be ready to pay a hefty tax bill on any profit you make.

Nigel Farage cannot stop that happening — but by voting Reform and reducing the Tory opposition to a rump, you will ensure that a Labour Government can ram anything through unopposed. Vote Reform and make it that much easier for Labour.

It will be too late to repent once you have cast your vote. With an elected dictatorship, you can only look forward to Labour taxing the state pension, or increasing tax rates on private pensions as you watch our history and heritage, embodied in our cultural statues and sculptures, pulled down on News at Ten.

Wealth creators are already fleeing Britain in readiness for Starmer. And as the tax revenue they bring into the Treasury coffers diminishes, so your taxes will rise to fill the gap to pay the welfare bill.

They have said they won’t raise income tax now — but in two years’ time they’ll say: ‘But that was then.’

Votes for 16-year-olds, who overwhelmingly support the Left, and so many other measures to ensure Labour stays in power for ever will simply sail through.

A vote for Reform will trap us in the grip of socialism for years to come. But, by then, Nigel will be hot on Rishi’s tail, heading for whatever well-paid job Trump has ready for him. And, dear reader, the thing is we both know it’s true.

Eamonn Holmes, if you’re reading this, I for one want to see you in the Big Brother house. If you watch Eamonn presenting the breakfast show on GB News, with Isabel Webster, you quickly learn that he has a wicked sense of humour and is just a very nice man. BB needs contestants with a bit of worldly wisdom to make it interesting. I think Eamonn would shine.