Patrick O’Flynn writing in a recent edition of The Spectator magazine is lamenting, quite rightly in my view, about the fact that the Conservative Party is now no longer recognisably conservative. Mr O’Flynn remarked over how it looks as if the Tories will cave in to the demands of The Cult of Trans and make ‘conversion therapy’ of those who suffer from trans delusions illegal. In effect it will then become illegal for a parent with a child afflicted by a trans delusion to be counselled out of it, or for an individual adult who recognises that they have a trans delusion to seek treatment for it.
Mr O’Flynn went on to say that the Tories, in the form of Penny Mordant, are now pressuring the Church of England to amend their position on gay marriage and allow same sex weddings in their churches. The Tories it seems not only have little interest in being conservative or protecting or acknowledging Britain’s cultural and historical heritage but these days never seem to find a left wing nostrum that they disagree with.
About the only bright conservative spark in a Tory party that has become politically indistinguishable from the illiberal and undemocratic Liberal Democrat Party is the presence of Kemi Badenoch. Ms Badenoch, Mr O’Flynn said, is believed to be behind the decision to apply Section 35 of the 1998 Scotland Act to the Scottish Parliament’s decision to unilaterally amend Gender Recognition regulations in such a way that it would affect law as applied in England and Wales.
If Mr O’Flynn’s assertion that Ms Badenoch is instrumental in standing up to the Scottish Government’s gender lunacy then this is something that should and must be applauded. It is certainly a policy that has wide support among a general public who are getting increasingly perturbed by the rise of the gender identity cult and its deleterious effects on women, children and society.
But Mr O’Flynn points out that although Ms Badenoch is very much a bright spot for conservativism, the same cannot be said for the wider Conservative Party. Mr O’Flynn said:
In Kemi we trust. But there are so many Tory MPs who cannot be trusted on this stuff that voting Conservative again would represent the triumph of hope over experience. And right now experience wins the day: just assume the Conservatives are going to let you down because at least it saves time.
He’s correct there. Whilst there might be some Tory MP’s and those from the broader Tory Party who can be trusted on these important societal matters, that doesn’t mean that the entire Tory Party can be so trusted. In Britain those who broadly believe in social conservativism have been all but purged from the party leaving behind MP’s who are faint simulacra of the sort of individuals who might be politically more at home in the Lib Dems.
I’m not a political masochist. I really don’t see the point of voting for a party that I know will let down me and others who think similarly to me. I also don’t see any point in voting for a Tory party that only seems to have a tiny number of actual conservatives in it and which has distinctly unconservative policies. I like Kemi Badenoch and would love to see her in charge of the Tories but she’s just one decent woman swimming in a sea of political rubbish. I’d vote for Ms Badenoch but I won’t vote for what the Tory Party has become.
