I’m not entirely certain what the writer wants us to take from this? At once idolising and deriding Fortescue? Is that what our approach should be to Conservative politicians? Seems a reasonable summation of the recent leadership contests and their after effects but aren’t we supposed to instead just have able people? Maybe this is his point that the Conservative approach makes this impossible and we shouldn’t expect it?
The Critic is like The Sun or the Daily Mail except it strives for building respectability for itself, as opposed to ravings. Half their articles are the same complaints about “Wokeness”, Black Lives Matter, and pronouns you get from all the others. Admittedly they use a wider vocabulary than The Sun.
This article is no different in trying to promote a more respectable version of conservatism by focusing on it having some sort of pedigree. Trying to shift the reputation of right-wing politics from the populist ravings of the last decade, back into the Village Green conservatism of yester-year. Bringing to mind a world where you can have pleasant chats with your Oxford educated local vicar on topics like jurisprudence, Chaucer, and the Tudors.
This article is nothing but another lick of polish on the turd of conservatism.
Conservatism that lead to serfdom, work houses, slums, deaths and suffering. While the select few lived like gods and derided the poor. Nothing has changed. Been subservient is culturally ingrained in us. All hail to our betters, we know what groveling scum we are… another bowl of gruel please sir. suplicant Britain for the masses great for the corrupt few.
Word salad. Only one phrase is significant, and that itself is a quote: “these be the fruits” *(Fortesque)*
I have always struggled to separate the ‘conservative’ from the ‘reactionary’ and cherry picking history back to the 14th century isn’t helping.
You’d think at some point the record of what modern conservatism over the last 100 years has achieved, would speak for itself.
Bigotry, misogyny, racism, and fascism are the roots of conservativism.
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I’m not entirely certain what the writer wants us to take from this? At once idolising and deriding Fortescue? Is that what our approach should be to Conservative politicians? Seems a reasonable summation of the recent leadership contests and their after effects but aren’t we supposed to instead just have able people? Maybe this is his point that the Conservative approach makes this impossible and we shouldn’t expect it?
The Critic is like The Sun or the Daily Mail except it strives for building respectability for itself, as opposed to ravings. Half their articles are the same complaints about “Wokeness”, Black Lives Matter, and pronouns you get from all the others. Admittedly they use a wider vocabulary than The Sun.
This article is no different in trying to promote a more respectable version of conservatism by focusing on it having some sort of pedigree. Trying to shift the reputation of right-wing politics from the populist ravings of the last decade, back into the Village Green conservatism of yester-year. Bringing to mind a world where you can have pleasant chats with your Oxford educated local vicar on topics like jurisprudence, Chaucer, and the Tudors.
This article is nothing but another lick of polish on the turd of conservatism.
Conservatism that lead to serfdom, work houses, slums, deaths and suffering. While the select few lived like gods and derided the poor. Nothing has changed. Been subservient is culturally ingrained in us. All hail to our betters, we know what groveling scum we are… another bowl of gruel please sir. suplicant Britain for the masses great for the corrupt few.
Word salad. Only one phrase is significant, and that itself is a quote: “these be the fruits” *(Fortesque)*
I have always struggled to separate the ‘conservative’ from the ‘reactionary’ and cherry picking history back to the 14th century isn’t helping.
You’d think at some point the record of what modern conservatism over the last 100 years has achieved, would speak for itself.
Bigotry, misogyny, racism, and fascism are the roots of conservativism.