The Conservative Party

bluethrunthru said:
'kinnell a decent honourable Tory

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I know it's hard to remember but once upon a time the Conservative party had quite a lot of decent MPs, I might have fundamentally disagreed with their policies and even worldview but that didn't mean they weren't discharging their duties honourably and in the spirit of the representative democracy that our system is based on.

For decades the Conservative party held the line with the post war consensus and we did ok as a nation especially at a time of great change for us in terms of our place in the world.

But then the Conservative party elected a leader, and in turn the electorate a PM, who utterly rejected that consensus and labelled anyone within her party who disagreed with her as 'wets'. The one nation tories who were derided as wets weren't purged completely from the party immediately but decisively lost control of its direction. Though it retained the same name, in effect Thatcher's premiership created the conditions to allow a new party to be created as it was first infiltrated and then completely taken over by imo a dangerous alliance of political extremists, privateers and in its latest incarnation, absolute chancers. A party that has ultimately plunged the UK into chaos.

Take away the labels and what we think of as a traditional post war conservative has much more in common with the current Labour party than the collection of ideological nutters and criminal grifters currently occupying the government benches. Over the years there's been plenty of the more traditional tory MPs but they tend to leave politics relatively quickly when they realise their naturally conservative tendencies have actually landed them in a party full of deeply unpleasant people hellbent on pursuing their own agenda rather than serving the country.
 
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They're taking pride in sending Albanians back.

They're giving millions to local authorities to help recruit care workers from Africa.
 
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