Andrew Neil blasts the Tories over failure 'to serve' the country 

Wasn’t a failure to serve. They had no intention to serve anyone but themselves.

It's not about left and right it's about character and integrity. And by those criteria this government has been the worst anyone can remember.

Served themselves and their chummy kleptocrats very effectively. 😢

How can anyone take these left over Tories talking about what we need to do in the future? They had 14 years!

Tories chose performative politics over substance, power dramas over governance, and relied upon their enablers in the press to gaslight the public. Reforming the press would go a long way to disciplining conservatives.

Don’t underestimate the role of the Tory media supporting, covering up and not reporting Tory corruption, incompetence, and inaction.

The real rot was Boris Johnson, what an absolute waste of time that man is.

Biggest Tory cheerleader of the last 20 years was ...............ANDREW NEIL!!!

They’ve always served themselves

Oh they served alright, themselves, day after day, month after month, year after year.

First and foremost, people want stability and competence from their government. That has been absent for a long time.

They only ever served themselves and their mates and did nothing to actually govern or do their jobs.

You'd be raving mad as a young person to vote for the Conservatives.

I am sure they made enough cash whilst in power.

Does anyone recall him complaining about this "failure to serve" at any time in the last 14 years?? Anyone? It seems he is a bit late to the party here. 14 years late.

Starmer needs to have a forensic public inquiry into PPE...

“What did we have to say to young people?” - GET IN THE ARMY 😂

We’ve had enough of being taken advantage of

Treachery caused them to get a BLOODY NOSE.

Andrew Neil pushed to leave the EU, he was never going to suffer financially or culturally, where does he live? A nice little villa in France.

A fourteen year trolley dash with tax payers money. It had to end at some point.

'Invest in financial products'? Wtaf is he talking about? If you're forced to privately rent (ie, paying somebody elses mortgage and into THEIR pension) that uses up the vast majority of their salary, where tf does he think they're gonba get money to 'buy financial products'? Out of touch or what. Victoria Atkins as potential leader? 😂😂😂😂 funniest thing I've heard all day!

This from the man who has served self interest and Murdoch above all else.

Brillo Pad Gets Peeved About Useless Brexit Backing Torys. Satire is dead.

Andrew Neil declared that he didn't cast a vote as he thought it important that broadcasters, such as himself, remain unbiased. Very funny guy. It'd be hard to find a more prominent mouthpiece for the tories since the Thatcher years.

Neil has cheerleaded this administration at every step along the way. For him to be attacking them now is disgraceful hypocrisy and revisionism.

Didn't stop him from doing everything he could to support them when he helped launch gb news.

The public don't care about right or left ... they want a safe prosperous country for themselves and their children ... they want to sleep well at night after a productive day at work with the respect of their peers, managers, community and their leaders ..

This bloke supported and propped them up over the last 14 years.

He lost me at "we have to take a moonshot" my god they are so detached from reality, well about from here to the moon detached.

They served themselves, their families, and their donors. That was their job and they did it exceptionally well. Those non-exec directorships that will flood their bank accounts are rewards for services carried out as MPs. The Italians used to be open about corruption - just leave a suitcase full of cash on your doorstep, the Brits are a bit more subtle.

As a famous journalist, Andrew Neil didn't hold the Tories to account. By being one of their biggest supporters, he allowed this to happen.

IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, LEAVE! WILL OF THE PEOPLE, YOU LOST GET OVER IT! etc etc. Nice to give them a taste of their own medicine.

You could always have blasted the Tories any time over the last 14 years, Neil.

When have the Tory’s ever served anyone but themselves and there donors?

Andrew Neil, who was chairman of the Conservative association at Glasgow University blasting the Tories? He IS a Tory.

What went wrong ??? Seriously ???

He promoted them for years. Typical tory never accepts his role in their disastrous rule.

We all know why Johnson dodged the interview with him, Johnson wouldn't have survived it. Great to see a grown in No 10 again.

Shouldn't Andrew be more concerned about the ongoing elections in the country where he is enjoying EU Freedom of Movement rights: France.

It goes deeper than that. You didn't forget, you didn't give a damn. Your motivation was wrong, and that started as children, aged 7. Leadership no longer works, nobody wants to follow you.

They simply stopped listening .

Outlaw MPs having 2nd jobs.

Failure to serve? Good of you to notice, Andrew!! 😅

In Australia just this year when the public is hurting more than ever before, our institutions are posting record profits ... our regulators has lost power and now our government was boasting record profits ... democracy's have been losing their moral compass for decades so it's truly refreshing to hear these ideas toss around ... oh wonderful! No more beauty parades ... meaty change! Brilliant 👏👏👏

Buckland thinks that during a housing crisis, if you offered folks a free house, they'd not take notice. Ridiculous man.

still out of touch

The party of selfishness serving the public? Good luck with that.

As usual the tories served themselves and forgot that they were supposed to be working for us 😂🎉. Good riddance .

Andrew can't absolve himself by criticising after the fact. He was a big geebeebie part of the medias failure in not holding the tory ghouls to account.

Surely he should know by now that Tories only serve their own pockets.

They served themselves nicely

My view is the tories had it in their power to look into price gouging on food, fuel and energy and they just didnt !!!

Why have they just realized they are there to serve the public after they have been kicked out of office after 14 years didn't they know before that goes for Andrew Neil too ?

The problem was, they served themselves, and forgot about their employer s. The British public.

Send every Tory MP and future MP candidate to serve Community Service among the very people who voted them out. Working for them in Soup Kitchens, and Second Hand Shoppes, and whatnot will FORCE them to listen HUMBLY. Many will have no idea what they will later be grateful for in taking on this assignment. At least the Tory party can take heart that they failed to govern "for the people" and left the country in the hands of Labour, which can learn from Tory mistakes.... since the Tory party didn't recognize or learn from their own mistakes. It was clear when Truss's mini-plan hit the press that the party, and those who shepherd it along, had lost its way.

The point of coporate tories is to serve only themselves?!

Lies, Corruption, Incompetence and more lies is the reason and I hope they never get back in.

Good Grief! How on earth can someone talk for so long and say absolutely nothing? That really is a skill!

No matter how many times I mailed my Tory mp .- no replies😡😡😡

I can't fir the life of me understand why Neil is so respected, hes spent the kast 14 years telling anyone who'd listen how great the tories are, and now look at him.

Exactly Robert "Talking about" meanwhile our town and the country has fallen apart. Blaaa

What about those young people who cannot afford to buy, social housing is needed

He actually speaks sense

Why don’t you let Labour choose your next leader as you don’t have a good track record of choosing and backing one yourselves 🙄

Of course the Tories served the UK. They served the UK with a side of fava beans.

Some insight, but still disconnected from the rest of the country.

Andrew gives him an open goal to show a single good Tory policy and he can't kick a single one in.

stop the boats, reform bbc and so a couple of things more, they had no interest, sadly.

Did Andrew say this before the election failure, as well?

Tories talking about house building like they have not been in power for 14 years

Too late Buckland you were given the chance in 2019 to become the party of the people instead you betrayed that position. If people are smart they will never vote Conservative or Labour again and vote for politicians who do what they say they will do.

The fact that the working people bore the brunt of all of their cost cutting while seeing the richest increase their wealth when we were told that we would all have to suffer was a massive kick in the teeth, plus the mishandling of the NHS, housing, councils budgets, education and basically every facet of life that normal people feel every day is the reason they lost. And they fact he thinks its some sort of PR failing says it all

We need a government who will serve our country

The Tory Times, now totally irrelevant. 😁😁

Dont blame it on Sunak, don't blame on it on Johnson, don't blame it on Liz Truss, blame it on the far right

Entitled reality show wannabees serve themselves , always and only.

Who listens to Andrew Neil anymore. Yesterday's man, establishment through and through.

No skilled workers to build houses [brexit anyone?], no materials to build houses? [De-industrialization]. Here come the 1950's again with modern easy to build homes: pre-fabs! What a legacy!

why are these people even getting air time?

«serve the country ». The Tories ? Who actually believes that ?

Only after the results do they want to start talking sense!

I blocked him on X only yesterday. His brand of alcohol inspired third rate divisiveness is tiresome at the best of times but I can't see the point in him anymore....and nothing of value was lost.

C’mon! 14 is not a bad run! For a totally self absorbed selfish greedy party! I’d say they won to have lasted so long giving so little to others!

The tries talked about listening to people during election speeches but didn’t give a F**k for the people any other time

His first comment that the "voters should not be criticised", those words alone speak volumes about Tory arrogance. You cannot possibly even think about criticizing the voters, the voters have an absolute right to their opinion. THis guy is one of the more moderate Tories and even he has lost the plot.

I like Robert Buckland. He should run again. He is needed in a One Nation Tory Party.

O'h SERVE, they thought you said "SELF-SERVE", WELL F-ck me, it was just a mistake they made!..

Just excuses. 😢

Think Buckland is very sensible 🎉

The Tories became obsessed with 2 policies that the population rejected, the first was Brexit, and the second was Rwanda. In the run up to the election, it was Rwanda that the Tories got themselves fixated on, and no other policy got any attention at all, they totally dismissed the cost of living, and have now paid the price.

Serve themselves, their donors, relatives and their party first. T'was ever so.

Since when did they serve anyone other than their billionaire pals/donors?

In regards to the Tories and their loss, I am reminded of Ronald Reagan advice concerning running against the Democrats. He said you must present a bold color difference no pale pastels in other words if the public can’t tell the difference between a republican and democrat, they will always vote Democrat The same is true in England with the Tories, they became indistinguishable from labor.

These tories still can’t see what they did to the It started in lockdown with one rule for them and one rule for the rest of us and it just went downhill from there on

Has any Prime minister ever served this country, they all seem to get kicked out .

Still in lala land

Hang on! “Younger people voted Reform”? Really? I challenge that claim. The rest of the analysis seem equally weird.

Can't see them ever getting in again the people are not forgetting that debauchery ....

They serve themselves the rich and big companies. God forbid you lose your job you have jump threw hoops to get what is due you.