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What the “Conservatives” Have Wrought
Well, I hope the French election on Sunday offers a faint glimmer of hope. Across the United Kingdom almost every constituency voted for lefties of various stripes – not just victorious Labour lefties, but also Scots nationalist lefties, Irish republican lefties, eco-lefties, Islamo-lefties and, of course, duplicitous pseudo-conservative lefties: you can get it in any colour as long as it’s red. So, if you’re one of those Britons concerned about, say, transformative mass migration or the right to freedom of speech, things are going to spend the next few years getting worse before there is any prospect of course correction.
This is squarely on the UK’s hideous and repellent “Conservative and Unionist” party, which as a practical matter is neither. Effective politicians don’t “move towards the centre”; they move the centre towards them, as Mrs Thatcher and President Reagan did. Instead, the Conservatives squandered fourteen years playing on the left’s terms, and the result is a political culture that has never been less conservative, and a land where nothing works, from the creepily fetishised National Health Service to the wanker constabulary.
So Rishi Rich’s party was pushed down to its worst ever result – worse than Balfour in 1906, if such comparisons are even relevant in a demographically transformed Britain. The casualties include so-called “big beasts” (who, as someone remarks in The Prisoner of Windsor, are nowhere near as big as they were) of all stripes: floppo GB News host Jacob Rees-Mogadon, Coronation sword-wielder Penny Mordaunt, and former prime minister Liz Truss. And yet, bad as it was, it was not as bad as it should have been. It was not a Kim Campbell extinction-level event. So a left-wing government will be opposed in Parliament by a mush-left faux-opposition that agrees with it on Net Zero, “online harms”, the European Court of Human Rights, the Northern Ireland Protocol and the subversion of Brexit …oh, and doubtless the necessity of the next lockdown.
