Another view, from a reader:

How about this: British conservative no longer have the slightest idea of what they are trying to conserve, mainly because they have so little
to choose from and still can’t decide. Privatizing a coal mine in a milieu of entrenched Fabian socialism and a widespread conversion to what is essentially cultural Marxism doesn’t quite do the trick.
And they’ve been baffled by Tony Blair. What more needs to be known?
And like the rest of Europe they’d love to drag the U.S. down into death with them.