In a recent Spectator article the author and commentator Douglas Murray opined that he is ‘sick of the Tories’. Having observed their recent performance and as someone who voted Conservative in the 2019 General Election, I have say that on this matter I agree with Mr Murray.
A lot of us voted Conservative partly because the Tories promised to uphold the people’s decision to vote to leave the European Union, but also because we trusted the Tories to be better than Jeremy Corybn’s Labour party at doing such things as defending free speech, properly managing the economy, securing Britain’s borders, promoting liberty and law and order. The Tories have let us down on all of the non Brexit issues that propelled voters to choose the Tories. The nation is in massive amounts of debt, has a dysfunctional energy supply policy dominated by the extreme greens, our borders are propped open and freedom of speech, liberty and law and order are in just as bad a state, if not worse, than they were prior to the last General Election. About the only things I will applaud the Conservatives for at the moment is the Covid vaccine rollout and even then their job was made easier by not being in the EU.
Mr Murray said that the Tories are not being properly right wing. The Tories will throw out the occasional bit of red meat to their supporters but often this is low hanging fruit stuff that does nothing to tackle the major problems.
Mr Murray observed how when it comes to issues like the Channel migrant invasion crisis the Tories and in particular the Home Secretary seem to be bystanders. Mr Murray said:
So far we have had Patel (the DC version) talk about ‘the mass migration crisis’, as though she is merely an observer of the crisis in the Channel rather than one of the only people actually able to solve it. Then we have the Guardian claiming that Patel is planning to introduce a clause to the nationality and borders bill allowing the government to remove people´s citizenship retrospectively. I hope that this is the case, but since it is the Guardian that it is reporting this, it may very well not be true, and be just another ruse to aggravate a few Guardianistas and excite a few Tories.
Like Mr Murray I’m also fed up with the Tories and I’ve been a Tory voter. I’m fed up with voting for a party that promises strict border control, or liberty or freedom of speech or secure and sensible energy policy, but does not deliver. I’m fed up with their empty promises and even emptier words. We should be a nation that controls its borders and which keeps out the unwanted and the dangerous. We should be a nation where free markets, liberty and freedom of speech prevail and we should be a country where we make use of the abundant gas and coal resources and nuclear know how to create a secure and stable energy supply. The trouble is we don’t seem to be able to get these sensible and liberty centred policies from the very party that trumpets their support for them.
A considerable worry for me is the horrendous political mess we have today could so easily become just the conditions required for new extremest parties to evolve. I do wonder what would happen if a new and apparently good party with popular answers arose, would voters might flock to it in shear desperation? The ghost of 1930s Germany may be closer than we may think.
Nail. Head. Hit.
Just like to add, in anticipation of an article that I’m writing which I hope to have up sometime tomorrow, we are seeing something similar happening in USA at the moment where the cult of Q Anon, which in part came from the polarisaiton of US politic, is attracting significant support and branching out into really odd areas such as sub cult that believes that JFK Jr along with his dad will be reincarnated and resurrected to save the USA. It’s never good for a society when lunatic extremes, whether they are of the Left, the Right or from quasi-religious movements like Q Anon, can persuade a growing number of people to sell their property, hand over their savings and cash in their pensions in order to follow a false Messiah like those who are leading the Q Anon breakaway groups. Looking at the fringes of US politics at the moment doesn’t so much remind me of 1930’s Germany but more 19th century America where there were all sorts of religious / political cults established, some incredibly violent.
This is the first I have heard of Q Anon so I await the article with interest.
This is from last year from the New York Post. https://nypost.com/article/what-is-qanon-conspiracy-theory/ It doesn’t cover the whole gamut of Q Anon nuttery but it gives a rough outline. Q types are very active on Gab, Parler, Bitchute and other alt tech platforms elsewhere because they were booted off FB and similar platforms. I keep a watch out for Q type keywords on Social Media and steer clear of them when I can. It’s a complete mess and a mixture of people who don’t critically think and blindly follow, people who are more clever and have influence, grifters who are making money and getting supporters via the Q cult and politicians who are trying to ride the Q wave to gain support. It’s got the capacity to blow up really badly. If you thought the tin foilers who follow and believe David Icke are a bit ‘out there’ then the Q types are worse.
The article in question is up now at https://www.fahrenheit211.net/2021/11/24/q-tards-go-mad-in-dallas/