In the Conservative Party, Containment Always Wins

'Yes, you read that right. I was removed from the Conservative Party for stating that we should not chemically castrate children.' There is one less conservative in the 'Conservative' Party.

From The European Conservative

By Connor Tomlinson

Yes, you read that right. I was removed from the Conservative Party for stating that we should not chemically castrate children.

As I sat awaiting a speech by former Home Secretary Suella Braverman at Nat Con DC, I received an email informing me that I had been suspended from the Conservative Party. I had planned to write an article evaluating the merits and faults of each prospective leadership candidate. But whoever holds the crossbar puppeteering the corpse of that former election-winning institution is now irrelevant. If the Conservative Party is incapable of accommodating critics of its disastrous record in government, then it demonstrates its commitment to continuing the very status quo which delivered the worst, well deserved election defeat for a century.

It took two weeks for CCHQ’s (Conservative Campaign Headquarters) crack team of investigators to provide me with a list of offences. From over 4,000 X posts, and thousands of hours of broadcast footage, they produced four tweets and a ten second clip. I was disappointed that they were incapable of compiling my greatest hits—all of which I would have stood by. What were my crimes? Tweets suggesting conditional support for Reform UK’s policies; tweets criticising the hostility of LGBT activists towards the family unit; tweets condemning the chemical castration of children by transgender ideology; and a joke about the undesirable cultural practices of unassimilated immigrants. 

Yes, you read that right. I was removed from the Conservative Party for stating that we should not chemically castrate children.

Most perplexing was the fact that, after being accused of bringing the party into disrepute on social media, I was instructed “not to make any public comment or announcement” concerning my suspension; nor to disclose which of my publicly-accessible posts were grounds for my expulsion. Why they thought I would comply with this closed-doors inquisition is beyond me. 

Within a few hours of the email announcing my suspension, pending investigation, the party Chairman, Richard Holden, resigned in disgrace. This followed a disastrous campaign where he parachuted himself into a safe seat, and reduced a 20,000 majority to winning by just 20 votes after sending his leaflets to the wrong constituency. Yet despite ending the careers of decent MPs like Miriam Cates and Dame Andrea Jenkyns, Rishi Sunak and the surviving members of his cabinet retain their party membership—while I am punished.

I will address each charge, beginning with my posts in support of Reform UK. I condemned the exile of Lee Anderson for suggesting Sadiq Khan’s career history of defending Islamic terrorists may go some way to explaining why the Palestine marches have been given carte blanche to chant genocidal slogans every week in Westminster since October 7th. I commended Reform UK for making Anderson their first MP, and stated that I might be willing to vote for them in a general election. 

I also said that I voted for Richard Tice in my local Bexley by-election in December 2021—before I had reinstated my Conservative party membership, following Boris Johnson’s resignation. I had cancelled my membership renewal in 2020, after the government saw fit to place healthy people under house arrest for almost two years while simultaneously importing 942,000 people in 2021. Johnson then had the temerity to float the notion of ending the lockdowns only after the entire population was compulsorily vaccinated.

I reinstated my membership when Jonhson resigned, in anticipation of the leadership election. After Liz Truss emerged victorious, I hoped for a course-correction on economic and social policies. Forty-nine days later, Truss was coup’d out, and Rishi Sunak installed to continue the status quo. This hubris produced the historic defeat on July 4th. It seems the Conservative Party is filled with suckers for punishment, intent on suffering yet another repudiation by the voting public the next time their brand is put to a vote. 

As former Deputy Leader Ben Habib has said, Reform UK would be a redundant entity if the Conservatives had simply kept their promises on Brexit and immigration since 2019. My career as a critic from within the party, from the Right, would have served no purpose. The rise of Reform UK is an avoidable problem of the Tories’ own making.

If I am fifth columnist within the Conservative party for venting my frustrations at its revolving door of prime ministers, and suggesting Reform were getting a few things right, then why have Sir Jacob Rees Mogg and Dame Andrea Jenkyns not been reprimanded for proposing a coalition with Reform UK during the general election? I am not suggesting they do such a thing, but merely pointing out the double standard. 

Most egregious was the selection of two posts, in which I argued that the ‘LGBT’ community is not “family-friendly” and is associated with bodily mutilation, including of children. Two of the five complaints against me were about my objections to the medical experiment conducted on children by transgender ideologues. 

The fact that the Conservative party uses the ever-expanding ‘LGBT+’ acronym explains why it cannot mount a defence against its Labour, Lib Dem, and Green counterparts. If not the unmolested innocence of children, and the most basic biological distinction between the sexes, what on Earth are the Conservatives in the business of conserving, exactly?

Is it really the party’s position that the 4400% increase in adolescent girls identifying as trans—many of whom have five-or-six mental health comorbidities and a disproportionate number of whom are in foster care—is an organic phenomenon? Is it the Conservative Party’s position that children should be recipients of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and cosmetic surgeries in pursuit of the impossible task of changing a person’s biological sex? Even when numerous studies have demonstrated it does nothing to decrease suicidal ideation? Even when it causes infertility, osteoporosis, various forms of cancers, and worsens underlying mental health conditions? Even when the Cass Review advises against it and the High Court upheld their own government’s ban on it?

How is the Conservative party in such disarray that its government commissioned and implemented the findings of the Cass Review, but its party apparatchiks expel members who have a career history of being consistently right on this issue years before the Review was published?

I have dear friends who were nearly killed, and who cannot have children, because they were told this lie that they can change sex. If the official position of the Conservative party is to continue to tell this lie, then I do not want to be a member.

Yet again, Suella Braverman has used near-identical rhetoric recently, at Nat Con D.C. She went as far as to blame Rishi Sunak by name for flying the ‘Progress Pride Flag’ over government buildings, symbolising the medical experimentation on thousands of children and confused adults. Will she be expelled in due course, because the party is incapable of admitting its moral failings on this issue? Whether or not her party whip is at risk, it’s little wonder she felt it pointless to run for party leader. The party goes apoplectic when encouraged to live up to its namesake.

The final bizarre claim was made that I had “reference[d] a trope that non-white residents of the U.S. are inherently unclean.” They made this leap in logic from a clip from the Podcast of the Lotus Eaters, in which we criticised late-night propagandist Jon Stewart for stating crime, drug use, and defecation on public transport was “the literal price of freedom.” Stewart was criticising Tucker Carlson for asking why poorer and illiberal Russia has a clean, reliable metro system, without the murders, rapes, and intoxicated vagrants seen on the subways in American cities. 

I saw it firsthand when I visited Austin, Texas, earlier this year. San Francisco developed a map to track the abundance of human excrement. Carlson and my point was that it is a decision made by politicians to inflict these squalid conditions on their populations. It does not have to be this way. America, the UK, and Europe all had clean and functioning metro services prior to the progressive social policies encouraged by everyone from Jon Stewart to the United Nations.

The joke I made was provocative: “Abdul crapping on your doorstep means that you’re free? God bless America!” There are, of course, areas of the world where public defecation is commonplace due to a lack of plumbing infrastructure. Pretending otherwise is absurd, especially when record numbers of those peoples are now our neighbours, thanks to Conservative immigration policy. Especially when we now have examples of it happening on video.

Why Conservatives have chosen to die on the hill of the human right to empty one’s bowels on private property is beyond me. But to extrapolate from my hyperbole, directed at Stewart, that “non-white residents of the US are inherently unclean” is a preposterous projection. The Japanese have both better toilets and public transport than America, and aren’t of European stock. As my friend Douglas Murray once said, “if you can hear the whistle, you must surely be the dog.”

But this speaks to a broader absurd language game we are expected to play. Anytime an increase in sexual assault is reported, or a terror attack occurs, we are told that undifferentiated, non-descript ‘men’ are to blame. Even when MPs are heckled to tears at acceptance speeches for their insufficient support for Gaza, they tell us that ‘idiots,’ not Islam, are to blame. I’m not playing that game. I am not looking the other way, denying cultural differences and having to live with the consequences. If the Conservative Party compels their membership to do so, then, as one very senior Tory MP told me, being excommunicated is “a badge of honour.”

The Conservative Party seems set on following Tony Blair’s revolutionary on-rails way of doing politics until it careens off a cliff. They have reached Soviet levels of incapacity for self-reflection. They insist on an abusive relationship with their base: breaking manifesto pledges, making unforced errors while campaigning, and engaging in blatant corruption, while commanding ceaseless loyalty from disappointed supporters. If you point at the naked emperor, you are punished as if you stole his garments. 

I am unbothered by who chooses to drink from the poisoned chalice come November 2nd, when the party will formally pick its next leader. Recent convert to the blindingly obvious, Robert Jenrick, seems sincere. If running, as rumoured, on “the policies of Nigel Farage and the presentation of David Cameron,” he may head some of Reforms defectors off at the pass. But his true role is to stop Kemi Badenoch—hence why Suella’s former supporters fell in behind him so early.

Forces in Kemi’s corner seek to stop the faction looking to recoup losses from Reform, and instead insist on continuing the Cameron consensus. Despite falling out over an affair with her friend, Michael Gove has long backed Badenoch. This has led to accusations by former MP Nadine Dorries that she is the favoured leader of the same CCHQ oligarchy who orchestrated the installation of their friend, Rishi Sunak, and still linger after the election loss. Munira Mirza did, after all, form the Race Equality Commission which catapulted Kemi to stardom among the base. 

This could all be schizoid conspiracy theoretics by an ex-MP with a penchant for weird interviews. But if any of Dorries’s claims reflect the internal machinations of the Conservative Party, then I am not optimistic about its ability to right itself. In any respect, it’s hard not to interpret my expulsion, and that of my colleagues, as an effort to rig the leadership election in favour of more of the same. 

Those looking to make the party a viable electoral prospect again would do well to ignore the One Nation wets, blaming the loss on being insufficiently centrist. Reform UK has begun to understand that to bend the knee is to stoop to the height of the headsman’s axe. But the Conservatives continue to run in circles like decapitated chickens, bereft of principles except doing all they can to avoid offending their opponents. 

So it seems, for the Conservative Party, selecting sex offenders as MPs, populating party headquarters with men who made their living hosting orgies in stately homes, and doing nothing about the class-A drug use at its annual conference was just fine. Saying that we shouldn’t sterilise children was a step too far.