Tories ‘never really recovered from Brexit’ and left them ‘divided’ | Andrew Neil 

No… The Tories ruined the Tories

It's a pity that breaking the Tories came at such a high price for the rest of us.

Who cares about the Tories? The country will never recover from it. Much like Andrew Neil will never recover from his stint at GBeebies.

The Tories never recovered from Brexit because they never prepared for it.

I guess we have found a Brexit benefit.

The arrogance of these tories is astounding. Baker couldn’t even bother to stay in Britain and represent the people who paid for his Greek holiday. Sums up the tory mantra; me first

Yes, but it similarly reveals their contempt for direct democracy. Top-down politics. Not what voters want; a non representative parliamentary system.

A Brexit benefit at last

I think they never recovered from Thatcher. They have been pursuing a perverse version of her ideology ever since, but without really understanding it. Repeating the ritual without the spirit.

Neill supported brexit. How is this old buffer still on the air 😂

THE TORIES SHOULD HAVE DONE THE JOB THEY WERE TOLD TO DO, M.P.s SHOULD NOT LET THEIR FEELINGS COME INTO THEIR JOB.

The tories were had a PM Johnson who was a fool , and brexit never had a chance

'Tories never really recovered from Brexit and left them divided' - oooohh !!!! I'm so upset !!!!

No it didn't. They ruined themselves when they betrayed us.

The fact is that Brexit was never deliverable in the first place, and that the main players like Johnson and Gove never expected to win that referendum. It wasn't supposed to happen. Never has a country so needlessly saddled itself with such a burden. Historians will look back on Brexit and shake their heads in wonder.

This isn't true. Cameron claimed himself to be the new Blair way back when he was elected in 2010, six years before the Brexit vote. The Tories never recovered from Cameron.

They had to do what the people wanted.. it’s there divide on the migrant crisis

Because the Tories didnt believe in it.A vote was given in Camerons hubris,he couldnt believe in a million years the people would vote to leave.We slapped his arrogance.After that it was merely a political device to garner votes,which culminated in Johnsons weak "oven ready deal".Which to all intents and purposes seems to have left us in the EU.

Greed ruined the tories.

It did the same to the country. We are still divided by Brexit and its fallout.

I can’t stand left in any forms.

In case you forgot the Tories didn't vote for Brexit, the country did. It seems some of you do not like democracy except when it works in your favour.

All because David Cameron wanted to appease Farage. Farage will never be satisfied, no matter how much you try.

The conservatives failing to deliver brexit to its full and democratically envisaged potential has ended the Conservative party

Did you hear about the £Billions thrown away on the Uni-party Covid response?

Not just Brexit, its the entire mountain of mismanagement. Brexit could of been handled better but its not the be all and end all and even though I voted for it, it hasnt changed a damn thing !!

Corruption did, not Brexit

Blaming the pandemic for Brexit ruining the country? That's a new one. Its like setting fire to your house and then blaming the lack of rain.

A few weeks too late again rishi

That's their own bloody fault. Where to begin, frankly, who can even bothered now...

The Tories destroyed Brexit more like, no ball to carry it through.

Brexit would have worked if they implemented it

Well written and well spoken. A tip of the hat to ya

That was a terrible shot from Sunak there. Miles from the jack.

I don't agree we only officially left the EU in 2020 and while trying to deal with the brexit negotiations along came the worse crisis since WW2 the unprecedented pandemic followed by Afghanistan evacuation climate change war in Ukraine all in just 3 years brexit hasn't had a chance and on top of that the whinging remainers in the media etc kept on and on and on . 🎉🎉REFORM UK 🎉🎉

The Tories ruined Brexit….there I corrected it for you

We where divided the minute we went into Europe...

And now betting on their own demise. A last helicopter out of Saigon moment.

My heart bleeds for the Tories. Its so tough for them. Because its nothing to do with the apocalyptic damage their have done to everyone else, specifically the most vulnerable in society- its all about them

No . Immigration and nhs ruined the tories...not brexit..

When historians look at this period, I hope they focus on Andrew Neil, his role in the media, and the Brexit support he provided. I love how Mr. Neil sees no personal responsibility.

The Conservatives were divided before Brexit to the point that a referendum was called to avoid a collapse of the government. They remained divided afterwards.

The Tories betrayed brexit and brexiteers and ultimately the country. They failed to implement it and i believe this was done deliberately.

What did being in the EU do for the average person.

Brexit broke Britain, and I, stupidly voted for it, thinking (having had assurances from my MP) that fishing and farming would be a priority for the government....

Mr Neil you are no better than the Tory party .

Every time we hear that Keir Starmer is rather boring. So what? Don't you Brits rather have a boring, but rather reliable PM who is able to steer the ship of state? Or do you want an ongoing soap, that could rival Coronation Street in length? Please vote those cons to 3rd place in the GE. Then you Brits can make sure that the client-media (like Times Radio and this old sanctomonious GB News gentleman(?)) can't give that valuable air time to spew their lies and hypocricy. VOTE LABOUR.

Inaccurate political opinion based from data collected within the wok limited press o sphere.

Their own incompetence ruined them. PPE Hancock Pincher Cummins Betting D Day Parties

I can listen to this old know all. You can rest assured that he’s never been wrong about anything!

Jacob Rees Mogg thinks the country never recovered from losing the Marquis of Salisbury as Prime Minister.

Looking back to 2016 one is reminded that while the Tories had a pro-EU leader [Cameron] and a party that was deeply divided on continued membership, the Labour Party had a party largely supportive of the EU, but a leader [Corbyn] who was at best lukewarm about it. Labour clearly now wishes for a closer liaison with the EU but, with regret, I fear that rejoining is not an option. Even if we managed to convince Brussels that we wished to rejoin, how could they trust us not to repeat the whole in-out argument all over again?

WOW, someone mentioned the B word.

It was always clear that Brexit would never work if America and Europe wouldn't go along with a complete free market model. Singapore model

Did he mention his own role? What a turncoat!

“The promise of Brexit to be delivered…”. But there’s your problem Andrew, what EXACTLY was “the promise..”? There were many factions and as many variations on that theme, so once they had “won” they didn’t know what to do. So they fought among themselves trying to define it for 3 years (instead of agreeing it in advance). Then Johnson (or rather, Cummings with Johnson as front man) came up with “Get Brexit Done!” - not a policy, not even a strategy, just a slogan - “we still don’t know what it is, but let’s get it over with for God’s sake”. And the only way they could “get it done” was to satisfy the hardest of the hard and either fire, ignore, or exhaust everyone else. And then they began to have to deal with the consequences of doing that, all of which had been dismissed or simply ignored in the panic to “Get Brexit Done”. And it was more difficult than they thought - and “the promise of Brexit” turned out to be a fantasy.

Doesn't Times Radio know that we are in the 21st century and that microphones now exist which are the size of a sugar cube? This set-up is truly absurd😂

They’ve gone from ‘*taking back control*’ of our borders, to just ‘*taking back control*’ of our Party! 😆

Good riddance, Conservatives. You never should have put EU membership to a referendum.

Putting aside what Brexit has done to the country and focusing on what it has done to the Tories is the essential mistake that has brought us here in the first place. What was largely an intra-Tory squabble, it was something they couldn't deal with internally amongst themselves. They decided to make this the rest of the country's problem. If it breaks them, permanently, by only regret is that it happened nearly a decade too late after they had grievously wounded us all for the sake of a failed attempt to preserve their party.

Going down this rabbit hole risks getting the master and servant relationship upside down. Voters are not the servants of the political parties, it's the other way around, and if a political party comes to think it isn't they deserve everything coming to them.

In 2016 Cameron should have had a plan A and plan B.For either outcome,instead of resigning like a baby.Brexit should have been complete within 2 years.Full 100% brexit.No laws that we still need to answer to EU for.

The Tories are receiving karma for their appalling 190 years of existence during which they caused misery and harm to countless Britons.

Tories: Hoisted by their own petard.

The Tories destroyed the Tories. Just like the scorpion on the back of the frog crossing the river they couldn't help themselves. They couldn't resist the temptation to exploit a situation but in this case their gains were very short lived and probably catastrophic for them.

The Tories will pay until they see the light and change tack.

Weren’t you a Brexiter, Andrew?

If brexit is to blame then why is David Cameron still in th cabinet? It was him being so desperate to hang on to power he gave us a vote on the EU, convinced he would easily win. When we voted to leave he stood there and said he wasn't the man to take us forward.

Tories wrecked brexit

Great line in easy excuses, Brillo: "If it wasn't for that damned pandemic and those useless Tories, the country would be blossoming with Brexit Benefits". What a joke you've become.

Good.

He's as mad as a fish. The list of problems only picked Brexit up collaterally, Boris destroyed his way to the top in a series of political assassinations straight out of Jeffrey Archer, leaving the Tories without experience, let alone competence.

Brexit was a wonder for those who wanted to make a heap of money for themselves but forget the plebs. Is this why the Tories went ahead and left the EU without either a proper vote with discussion; nor did they set out plans for what the country was going to do for the people and their living when the UK left.

Importing infinity Africans did much moe damage

No the torys

David the coward Cameron left the Tories with no other direction than down.

Nothing wrong brexit it was the MPs that are no good. Raise the bar for all politicians. Vote Reform

lol, I take it the sneaky rehabilitation of Andrew Neil is now complete

Maybe if you’d actually scrutinised those who were pushing for Brexit, we wouldn’t be in the state we’re currently in…

No truss did the damage

Who was one of the Chief Cheer Leaders ? Andrew Somebody Not Me Guv .

Never done Brexit properly!!I have never heard so much nonsense.Britian will be back in shortly

And . . . the Tories ruined Brexit.

I'm no fan of his but he is 100% right here

Austerity, Scottish independence, Brexit, covid, the war in Ukraine. Its an extensive list of large problems to solve...😮

I think you have to go further back than Johnson when considering how Brexit broke the Conservative Party. Brexit has always been contentious to any political party including ones within Europe. However, in the UK membership of the EU has been particularly difficult for both left and right-leaning politics. EU membership brought down Thatcher and nearly ended John Major's career. David Cameron was determined to not allow the same thing to happen to him so he held out the possibility of Brexit to the fractious right wing of his party by offering a wrongly titled referendum. In actual fact, it was a plebiscite but for reasons dating back to the 1930s and a conservative party policy of appeasement, he didn't want to use the plebiscite word. I believe David Cameron felt that forcing a plebiscite would bring the moderates of his party together and defeat his own right-wing (the so-called ERG) whilst throwing Labour into turmoil by off-siding them and splitting the Labour party. Unfortunately, he played the voting game by the rules laid down by Ted Heath and Wilson in the previous EU vote. Those rules of truthfulness, good debate and fundamental honesty were the complete opposite of the vengeful and hate-filled campaign by the ERG and their associates who won the day. However, the damage to British public life caused by the fight has never been resolved and there followed a long and sorry history of poor decision-making and even worse Prime Ministers. Has Brexit been done? No, it has not but perhaps the British public has been. We are now witnessing the result.

Johnson gained an eighty-seat majority off the back of 'getting Brexit done'. The Brexit vote didn't destroy the Conservative Party; what destroyed the Conservative Party was a reluctance to implement conservative policies and a suicidal proclivity to pander to the Left. Why vote Conservative when all that party stands for is a slightly different species of socialism to Labour?

This is a face for radio, act accordingly.

But Andrew you bored for Brexit also

Brexit exposed the tories.. also the muppets that led us into it..😝😝😝😝😂😂😂😂😂😎

He’s blaming Covid for Brexit not working 😂😂😂😂 He’s still deluding himself self. He’s too far gone.

What a fantastic brexit benefit for mogg

Did the same to the country. A gaping national wound that will take generations to heal.

Cue the world's smallest violin. 🙄

Brexit did not ruin the tory party. The tory party did not apply brexit and that why the voters have deserted the.

Alternative title. "Brussels ruined Europe".

The tories ruined the tories.

He's got a rat on his head. Who cares what he thinks?

Perhaps you should have explained the Singapore model to the public then. Now brexit has ruined our economy and you knew about it at the time.

The question is will Britain ever recover from Brexit.