Funny stuff. He just achieved the first polling lead in several years. You'd almost think people were stirring up trouble. Personally I find it doubly laughable because they are playing into the hands of RW's like you. But that's a thing, you know. Some leftists want the Tories to go as far right as possible, whilst they sit on the sidelines. T
he idea being that unchecked RW politics will blow the whole thing up then we can start over. Problem I see with that is, whilst unchecked RW Narcissistic politics does usually involve more and more destruction, the institutions are strong enough to keep it from happening at any real pace. It could take decades. And even then, why would socialists have an edge on retaking the country?
That's all hypothetical, however. I'm of the opinion that not blowing up the country is generally step one to making it more pleasant and liveable. We were given wonderful, lasting things by previous generations. We ought to be looking after them.
I mean, that's almost conservatism, isn't it? It's why there's such a mix up in people's heads. The current conservative leader treats parliament as something of an inconvenience. He seeks more and more ways to bypass it. Repeated proroguing, using the Corona briefings for political messaging, doing most of his communication in interviews or briefings. And their answer to 'bias' in the BBC, presumably the result of a failure in it's independance - right? - was to threaten it and install their own man. They even threaten lawyers in public.
That's not conservatism! That's not conserving the traditions and institutions - particularly the law and parliament - that form the strength of the nation. That's monkey business. With Union Jacks.
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