In a stinging article for the Spectator, Gareth Roberts accuses the Conservative Government of indifference and passivity due to its 13-year inaction against the rising influence of American progressive ideologies in both public and private institutions. Here’s an excerpt:
Steve Barclay is appalled. A source close to the Health Secretary has told the Mail that he is “appalled to hear some NHS managers are failing to respond” to a directive that told them not to let Stonewall write their ‘inclusivity guidance’. But fear not! He “will be discussing with officials what further steps to take”. Phew. …
It has taken the Conservative Government 13 years and 95 days to stagger breathlessly to this point. Thirteen years in which almost every public and private institution in the country has capitulated, to a lesser but usually greater extent, to the imported American ideology of intersectional progressivism. Everything – from the BBC to the National Trust to every library, gallery and museum in the land – is stuffed to the gills with this guff. The Tories outsourced sex education in schools and didn’t bother to check who was hired. They stood back and shuffled, tongue-tied, as progressivism gobbled up all before it.
It’s hard to do justice to the enormity of their failure on this front. Their recent noticing of this is a bit like the fall of Troy, but with King Priam holding up a finger and saying, ‘hang on a second, I think there might be something a bit fishy about that wooden horse’ as his wife is carted off over the shoulder of Agamemnon and chunks of toppled masonry smash into the strewn bodies of his slaughtered children.
What were the Tories doing while the institutions fell? Either answer – they were not in control, or they were not interested – is damning. Wilful blindness is not something one looks for in a politician. For Barclay to wake up now, to shake his head, suck air through his teeth and say ‘You’ve had some cowboys in here’ is unacceptable. You were one of the cowboys, Steve.
Kemi Badenoch, by contrast, is more clued up. It sometimes feels like she is, in fact, the only shield protecting the public from what she calls “destructive things”. Although she has many remarkable qualities, this feels somewhat precarious. It’s like sheltering in a downpour at night in a shop doorway – you may be just about dry, but it would be better to be inside.
The Tories’ long string of excuses for their culture failures – ‘well, it was the Lib Dems, you see, our hands were tied’, and then ‘well, Brexit took up all our time’, ‘and then there was Covid, oh and Ukraine’ – ring increasingly hollow. I suspect the real reason was the well-brought-up reluctance to avoid hyperbole, to swerve anything resembling a ‘scene’. They are embarrassed to be conservatives, ashamed to do things that might upset ‘nice’ people, which crippled them from the very beginning.
Worth reading in full.
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It is all by the by now. In 2019 a decision was made to allow direct rule by the banks and corporations and here we are. The governing party is utterly irrelevant. Every word they spew would be uttered by their opposition but couched a bit differently. There is no escaping fundamental power relations and how they have changed. This is the first tep to dismantling them. I would say at current reckoning it will take about three decades to develop a true spiritual resistance. All the while everything that makes life bearable will be crumbling at an accelerating rate. All you can do is keep spirits up in yourself and the people around you. It never came with a promise of ease or happiness or fulfilment but there was a promise that you would feel alive if you chose to do so.
Good article. The tories have lacked leadership with a pair of bollocks since Margaret Thatcher. Greedy, self-serving, spineless bastards – the lot of them. (* there are one or two honourable exceptions).
They are not “embarassed to be conervatives” they have not been conservatives for decades. The shock to their members is they have not been Conservatives, although there has never been a coherent philosophy about that or what it means.
They have been, as you say, keen to avoid a “scene”. They friends and associates and many (mpost?) of the Parliamentary party were on the side of woke, high tax, net zero and all the rest of the damaging mess.
The Conservative Party will not change. It is in too deep on all this stuff and its elected representatives will not tolerate change any more than they would allow a proper Brexit. As the GE approaches they will huff and puff and pretend all this was nothing to do with them. The ECHR, UK Courts, EU, UN, HoL and any number of other points of resistance will be given as excuses but it won’t wash. Even their own members don’t accept it.
As Peter Hitchens memorably pointed out on Question Time when talking about gay marriage, Cameron hates his own supporters.
Fascinating article for anyone who cares about the tories or the current political system or thinks that our system is anything but a show to keep the masses mesmerised and subdued.
If you are awake in the world, it all looks like the pantomime that it is.
The basic error in this piece is the presumption that Sunak, Hunt and globalist gang that usurped Truss actually care about being unpopular.
They don’t.
They’re banking on being less unpopular than Labour, but if Starmer gets in, he’ll just do more of the same.
Every day, in every way, the revolution gets nearer its globalist goal.
It’s up to us to expose, resist, disrupt.
Naive articles like this miss the message.
They don’t care about being unpopular with their members, the working class or other conservative and sane citizens.
They do very much care about being unpopular among the circle of likeminded managerial elite people they and their wifes, husbands and children move withinor aspire to do so.
They care about being popular with their fellow globalist swamp creatures, not the people.
It is a very simple game – keep the charade going on long enough so that you can get awat with all the spoils. This is a fundamentally flawed point of view because on a meta level the world that they luxuriate in depends completely on the thriving, at least on the surface, of a layer below.Just wise up we were all taken in at some point. That;s irrelevant because we are facing a serious attack on our spiritual home.
What the Tories have failed to realize is that the most important legacy of the Blair era is that New Labour is still running the country with an increasingly iron grip on everyday life regardless of who sits in Downing St 10 by virtue of all these quangos and charities stuffed with New Labour types which all act is if they had a mandate for enforcing general policies because they have the power to do so. The charade of the Hallet ‘inquiry’ would be a striking example of this.
We have to do something. If we allow this to continue then we aren’t even men enough to be guardians and we deserve everything we get. Serious people in this country need to acknowledge a sense of urgency.
Look at it in six months time given the defaults on mortgages and the homelessness engendrred by passed on rent costs. The whole situaton is a corrupt deck of cards. There will be no hiding from it when it collapses. We have only one option which is to fight as a nation that takes in and takes on allcomers. Obviosly if they give any indication of betryaal then we slice em up.
The Conservatives, or more certainly the executive realise that they are now nothing but play actors taking orders from elsewhere. As a consequence the likes of Fishy and Chunt couldn’t give a F. about the people of this country and so do not care one way or another about election results and as I keep repeating
Our salvation will not arrive via the ballot box.
The executive is now nothing more than a cabal of treasonous actors who are feathering their nests before taking flight.
Scum.
Fighting Marxist cultural warriors takes courage.
After 13 years of putting up with the blatantly biased, left-wing, BBC, the cowards in the Not-a-Conservative-Party still haven’t even got the courage to decriminalise a failure to pay the BBC’s Propaganda Tax.
Well over half of so-called Conservative MPs are carpet-bagger LibDems or Blairites, including the Prime Minister-with-no-mandate and the Chancellor.
I’ve never paid it. OTOH, I am genuinely uninterested in having my time wasted by TV producers and presenters.
Unpopulism? The correct expression is ‘intentional suicide’. This takes you to the burning question: Why?
Kemi Badenoch, by contrast, …… has been happy to stay in the Government through overturning Brexit, Lockdowns, Covid Jabs, Excess Deaths, Drag Queens, Rubber Dinghies, Net Zero, Ever higher Taxes, Woke Policing, Mutilating Teenagers on the altar of trans …..
“Thirteen years in which almost every public and private institution in the country has capitulated…”
Including the Tories.
Not thirteen years, right back to the final years of Thatcher, because the ‘Conservative Party’ was among the first to capitulate – hence the need to defenestrate the Iron Lady – and the emergence of that superannuated Sixth Former Cameron.
Time for a new party?
https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/a-reply-to-dominic-cummings?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email