"The conservatives are the most successful party of the modern era: They have ruled the United Kingdom for more than 50 years of the last 90. However, this week we have seen the beginning of the end of the conservative party we have known."

Thus begins his last column Fareed Zakaria , a prestigious analyst for The Washington Post and CNN. Talk about the decline of the Churchill and Thatcher party .

For the gang, it is a clear case of suicide. Boris Johnson was one of the fallacious thinking heads of Brexit. His lies and demagogic promises, together with the lack of vigor of the European side, decided the 2016 referendum. Since then, everything has been rolling downhill. Cameron left after losing the referendum. Theresa May inherited her absolute majority but, in search of legitimacy, called elections and lost seats. He lived on loan thanks to the Ulster unionists. Parliament rejected its agreement with the EU three times.

His successor has started worse: he has lost six votes in the commons and cleared by dissidents to 21 of his deputies. Parliament has been closed until mid-October. Johnson will try to reach an agreement with the EU that modifies the safeguard clause of the border between the two Irlandas. Very difficult but not impossible. A lantern ordage to save the face: any compromise will be better than a Brexit without agreement on October 31.

Since the referendum, the pound has been devalued by 15%, the investment has been paralyzed and, although unemployment is at a minimum (3.9%) and it is estimated that GDP will increase 1.2 this year, all economists agree in which Brexit has cost the United Kingdom three growth points. Not to mention the deep division of society and the momentum received by Scottish independence.

The populist infection of conservatives is, for Zakaria, evident: "It is strange to defend free trade and want to leave the EU, the largest free trade zone in the world." In our house the same virus has been carried forward to another conservative party, the Catalan nationalism of Pujol , Mas , Puigdemont and Torra . The decline summarized in four proper names.

The decline of conservatives and nationalists has gone hand in hand, from "Boris Mas to Artur Johnson", according to the parallelism of Javier Redondo . Today, September 11, more than one Catalan should think about it and stop chimeras. Less bravado, Quim Torra. Boris has the Premier and you don't know where Barça of independent Catalonia would play.

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