James Price has an interesting Critic piece on the madness of the political left in Britain
The British left has descended into madness
Whilst the national media focus on Reform, the left is seeing its own foment
In some countries, election days are occasions for fanfares. Americans have “I voted” stickers and Australians have their sausage sizzles — hot dogs handed out from barbecues. In Britain, on the other hand, it’s the subtle touches that denote polling day. Village halls or leisure centres, stubby pens, dogs tied up outside those neutral black and white “POLLING STATION” signs — and, more recently, shouts of “Allahu Akhbar!”
This was the scene in Leeds last year, when Mr, now Councillor, Mothin Ali won the ward of Harehills and Gipton for the Green Party. This novel twist on drab acceptance speeches did not go unnoticed, though Cllr Ali has been swift to decry those who did notice as “Islamophobic” in one of his first utterances as a public figure.
The whole piece is well worth reading as another reminder of how deranged the British left has become. The obvious danger is that lunatic political activism has become mainstream in Britain and shows no sign of abating. As we know, this is not the cosy eccentricity of a dotty aunt, being far more sinister than that.
The difference between left and right in Britain, is that beyond the bluster, there is little that Reform and the Conservatives disagree on. Reform have the energy and zeal, the Tories have the intellectual hinterland and the scars on their back from fighting the Blob. Together, they could make a powerful electoral and political coalition which could save Britain.
The left, on the other hand, will always find ways to fall out with one another. The well-represented but braindead liberal democrats, the left of the Labour Party, the Your Party (or perhaps “Your Parties” by the time this comes out) and now the Greens have confirmed that they will fall down under the weight of their own contradictions.
With their enemies this mad, bad and dangerous, the right could seal a glorious comeback for the country — provided it doesn’t repeat the suicidal factionalism of the Left.
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Unfortunately the Conservatives were just as factional as the left in previous Governments... but they followed Party discipline better and papered over the cracks. This enabled the Wets (secret social liberals) to seize control but eventually the electorate had enough. I don't think the Conservatives will make a come back if they cannot expel the Wets.
Labour have always presented themselves as a broad church but engaged in vicious infighting over who sat in which pews. Starmer achieved a superficial appearance of Party calm but perhaps it was tissue thin - I'm surprised the calm lasted so long.
"Tories have the intellectual hinterland and the scars on their back from fighting the Blob. "
Utter utter rubbish. Pretty much everything Starmer and Co are doing is things the Tories started. The Tories didn't 'fight the Blob', they did the Blob's work for them. They legislated for Net Zero. They opened the floodgates of immigration. They created the Online Safety Act. They allowed the Equality Act to continue unmolested. They refused to solve the Channel Boats problem. They poured money into an unreformed NHS. They printed and spent hundreds of billions to pay 50% of the population to sit on their backside during covid. They refused to reform welfare. Even today, probably a majority of Tory MPs would be happier in the Lib Dems or Labour than Reform.
The Tories ARE the problem. They pretended to be Right, but governed Left. And for that they must be destroyed.
DJ and Sobers - yes, as in Thatcher's day, the Wets undermine conservative politics and now they have have ensured that the party is no longer conservative. The Conservative party has no future in conservative politics, those party members who are conservative lost the fight years ago under Cameron.
As Sobers says, most Tories may as well join the Lib Dems. Cameron effectively did that. Political parties don't attract anywhere near enough strong, principled people who understand how the world works.
No, this is nonsense. The Tories - whether by intent or stupidity is debatable -set up most of the conditions and laws which Labour are now weaponising. They did this while failing to tackle, and in many cases exacerbating, the growing problems of immigration, woke social division, increasing state spending, net zero costs etc.
Sadly he's wrong about the right too, who are just as divided, just look at Rupert Lowe and Farage, natural allies who hate each other. Even the few real conservatives in the Tory party are drowned by so many left leaning members.
Sadly I don't see the cavalry coming over the hill to save us.
Woodsy - I don't see the cavalry coming over the hill to save us either. Farage seems to attract strong polling numbers, but the spat with Rupert Lowe doesn't inspire much confidence in Farage's ability to gather a strong, principled team around him.
I agree with Sobers. I felt the rot started when the pro EU Tories ousted Mrs Thatcher. By David Cameron's time, the party was full of blue Lib Dems.
Tammly - I always thought that ousting a winner like Mrs Thatcher was an odd thing to do. As if a significant number of weak politicians prefer to drag down a competent leader rather than absorb lessons from the leader's competence.
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