The revealing backlash to Boris’s Channel 4 sell off

Why is there so much anger over the sale of Channel 4? Tonnes of slebs are very cross and have signed a petition. But there’s no guarantee it will actually happen now that some Tory backbenchers have expressed their misgivings. If I were a Tory and cared at all about this issue — which, to be clear, you shouldn’t — I’d be mindful of the Prime Minister’s track record when it comes to matters requiring a backbone. Grassroots and instinctive Tories bear the brunt of his laziness and disloyalty. It is, after all, the things they care about – the things they love and hate and believe in and fear – that are sidelined by a Prime Minister who doesn’t govern like a conservative for the wholly legitimate reason that he isn’t one.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining. It’s good for those of us who oppose conservative outcomes that the Conservative party keeps winning elections in this country.