As a longtime fan of The Spectator, I’ve been appalled by the wet Tory turn it has taken in recent years. It’s fast becoming yet another captured expression of bien-pensant, Sensible™️ left-leaning discourse. Hopefully we’ll see the whole Tomlinson debate someday, in the spirit of truly liberal free speech (but I’m doubtful). Pleased to see Connor free of the heavy mouth-breathers at TLE’s podcast.
The Reform/Restore split will guarantee another far-left coalition, quite possibly led this time by the sectarian, fascistic, theocratic and neo-Marxist Green party: Britain would be lucky to recover from five years of Labour; five more would be – beyond question – suicidal. If Burnham becomes PM, polling suggests he could call an early election, securing another 5 disastrous years of ruinous “Great British” misgovernance.
Restore feels more soy every day, I’m sorry to say, a cult of doom-pilled victimhood. All agency has been externalised into a cult of personality worship. Lowe’s effete, geopolitical isolationism and his dishonourable advocacy of British freeloading – within an international balance of power from which we benefit enormously as a small, trading island nation – is neither serious nor commendable.
Prudentially applied, this need not mean endless foreign entanglements either: it is not forever 2003, any more than it is forever 1939. I would welcome Connor’s (not Rupert’s) thoughts on this at some point.
Rupert’s aspirational, bourgeois Lord Spode schtick is also becoming most tiresome. Our failed country is self-immolating.
