Kippaxpete
Well-Known Member
For no better reason than I can, I give you Bevin's view of the Tories from a speech he gave in Manchester in 1948. It was true then but, in my opinion, probably no more so than now.
What is Toryism but organised spivvery? No amount of cajolery can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
For reasons of context, it's important to understand that, in 1948, the country had just emerged victorious from a world war when parties of all political hues formed a united front in a common aim to defeat fascism. In 2023, we witnessed the Home Secretary of the present Tory administration actively stoking the fires of racial and social division while seeking to shift the political landscape sharply to the right. Anyone who is sufficiently naïve to believe that totalitarianism could never take hold here need only look at the recent record of this failed government and draw parallels with the nascent stirrings of right wing extremism in pre-war Germany and, more recently, the so-called populist regimes of charmers like Erdogan in Turkey, Orbán in Hungary, Meloni in Italy and, of course, our old friend, Trump. While admittedly a Tory, Churchill was right when he said 'Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it'.
What is Toryism but organised spivvery? No amount of cajolery can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
For reasons of context, it's important to understand that, in 1948, the country had just emerged victorious from a world war when parties of all political hues formed a united front in a common aim to defeat fascism. In 2023, we witnessed the Home Secretary of the present Tory administration actively stoking the fires of racial and social division while seeking to shift the political landscape sharply to the right. Anyone who is sufficiently naïve to believe that totalitarianism could never take hold here need only look at the recent record of this failed government and draw parallels with the nascent stirrings of right wing extremism in pre-war Germany and, more recently, the so-called populist regimes of charmers like Erdogan in Turkey, Orbán in Hungary, Meloni in Italy and, of course, our old friend, Trump. While admittedly a Tory, Churchill was right when he said 'Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it'.