Being a conservative these days is positively counter-cultural.
JR Stoker
1 year ago
Good briefing. The Tory Party leadership ignores those true conservative Conservatives at its extreme peril. It must recognise that times are both changing and staying the same
Dougie Undersub
1 year ago
At the risk of succumbing to stereotyping, corner shop owners and ethnic restaurant owners should be natural Conservatives. I’ve never understood why the Tories don’t make more of this.
hayden eastwood
1 year ago
It is really quite extraordinary reading the Guardian at the moment.
No matter that 4 of the final 5 Tory leadership candidates were either female or, as the Guardian would put it, “people of colour”, and no matter that the party’s support base is increasingly “of colour” and increasingly disinterested in race, the Guardian still doubles down with the mad claim that the Tory’s are primarily a party built on racism.
It just goes to show how impervious the Guardianista readership are to reality.
I have a close friend, a Guardian reading, bitter, Tory hating socialist with a holiday home in TRNC. He enthusiastically endorses Erdogan and brokes no irony in this, deploying the Guardian playbook.
R Wright
1 year ago
It shouldn’t be surprising that entrepeneurs who have fled failed socialist regimes overseas might lean more towards the right.
Alex Tickell
1 year ago
If the coming recession achieves nothing else, at least it will bring an end to “Identity politics” in this country.
Perhaps a return to real life after decades of over inflated life styles will encourage the work ethic and backbone growth in our populace.
I think we need to be more forceful as conservatives in the promotion of our values, as the young people I speak to seem confused and addicted to the media waffle.
The Conservative Party no longer represents conservatives.
Being a conservative these days is positively counter-cultural.
Good briefing. The Tory Party leadership ignores those true conservative Conservatives at its extreme peril. It must recognise that times are both changing and staying the same
At the risk of succumbing to stereotyping, corner shop owners and ethnic restaurant owners should be natural Conservatives. I’ve never understood why the Tories don’t make more of this.
It is really quite extraordinary reading the Guardian at the moment.
No matter that 4 of the final 5 Tory leadership candidates were either female or, as the Guardian would put it, “people of colour”, and no matter that the party’s support base is increasingly “of colour” and increasingly disinterested in race, the Guardian still doubles down with the mad claim that the Tory’s are primarily a party built on racism.
It just goes to show how impervious the Guardianista readership are to reality.
Post truth innit.
I have a close friend, a Guardian reading, bitter, Tory hating socialist with a holiday home in TRNC. He enthusiastically endorses Erdogan and brokes no irony in this, deploying the Guardian playbook.
It shouldn’t be surprising that entrepeneurs who have fled failed socialist regimes overseas might lean more towards the right.
If the coming recession achieves nothing else, at least it will bring an end to “Identity politics” in this country.
Perhaps a return to real life after decades of over inflated life styles will encourage the work ethic and backbone growth in our populace.
I think we need to be more forceful as conservatives in the promotion of our values, as the young people I speak to seem confused and addicted to the media waffle.
The Conservative Party no longer represents conservatives.