The dependancy to delusion was laid naked at convention, the place Rishi Sunak’s “change” schtick fooled no one. Instead of the prime minister setting the agenda, convention was a platform for tradition warfare scare tales and false flags which have come to outline the occasion for the reason that Brexit vote, from a non-existent meat tax to the obsession with the saboteurs of “the blob” (so helpfully amorphous that it devours the civil service, the BBC, attorneys and woke HR departments). Just as Corbyn’s Labour turned more and more cranky and missing self-awareness, so too are right now’s conspiratorial Conservatives. In the world of Torbynism, something generally is a fifth column. The saying that the precise seems to be for converts, the left seems to be for traitors is not any extra. The proper calls for traitors too. There are “declinists” all over the place, which is to say anybody who factors out the Conservatives have been managing decline for 13 years.