Posted on 07/06/2024 5:06:41 PM PDT by Nextrush
And ghastly, thro' the drizzling rain, on the bald street breaks the blank day', or so wrote Alfred, Lord Tennyson on another occasion. It certainly seemed fitting as I biked through the suburbs on Friday morning, contemplating 20 years of dwelling in Starmergrad, if I make it that far.
We are told that we should give 'losers' consent', when people we don't like win democratic elections, and I agree that is the only civilised thing to do.
But I can't actually remember an election when I did not have to give a least a bit of loser's consent. A bit of winner's gloating, as enjoyed by the other side, would be fun. But in this case, who are the winners and who is gloating?
I noticed something interesting at the victory of Bridget Phillipson MP at Houghton and Sunderland South. Her supporters greeted the moment with clenched-fist salutes, as if Ms. Phillipson was off to fight in the Spanish Civil War.
Ms. Phillipson has been the chilly public face of the spiteful tax raid on independent schools, one of the nastiest policies Labour has yet publicly admitted to...
The actual Labour vote was pitifully small. There was never any true enthusiasm for them. But the Nigelistias ' emotional spasm destoyed the line of defence which would otherwise have kept us from from swapping Bad Tories for Worse Labour.
Well, who are the new MP's? Are they open-minded, undogmatic generous men and women who see both sides of the argument? Or are they the kind of people you meet in local government, in comprehensive schools and the new universities, zealous Net Zero Greens, ferociously politically correct, filled with scorn for conservative ideas and people, always up for a heresy hunt?
I have a hunch they fall into the second category...
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>>But the Nigelistas’ emotional spasm destroyed the line of defence which would otherwise have kept us from swapping Bad Tories for Worse Labour.
Or, the Tories could have not wasted 14 years in power, or the Tories could have voted Reform. They are not entitled to power.
The outcome is the outcome.
What comes next remains to be seen.
Sounds like he’s blaming Reform and Nigel for splitting the right wing voters between the conservatives and Reform, thus handing Labor the landslide.
Kinda like Perot’s run helped Clinton.
“Sounds like he’s blaming Reform and Nigel for splitting the right wing voters between the conservatives and Reform, thus handing Labor the landslide.”
Beginning in 2010 the GOP vote in the U.S. was split in primaries between RINO and true conservative (Tea Party and later MAGA). When a RINO wins the primary, the true conservatives typically vote in the general election for the RINO as the lesser of two evils. However, increasingly when a MAGA candidate wins the GOP primary, RINO Republicans will vote Democrat in the general election. We’ve seen this since 2016 and the RINO’s are very open about their behavior.
Peter Hitchens is a miserable sod. There is no optimism or hope or praise for anything he ever says or does. He was a long time critic of Britain being in the EU but when the people voted to leave he moaned about the fact it was done via referendum.
Mainstream right wing parties will always drift towards the centre left if their base doesn’t occasionally discipline them by refusing to vote for them, and that is what happened here. A spanking was needed to correct them.
Sounds a lot like cutting off your nose to spite your face.
If your choice is between two parties that are taking the country to hell, it’s no good voting for the Conservative one just because they are taking the scenic route, because you will still end up at the same place eventually. The best option was to vote Reform and punish the Tories so they either sort themselves out or make way for a party that actually intends to govern from the right.
But you’ve just elected a party that will for sure make the country hell at record speed, and it’ll be next to impossible to undo.
I’m with Reagan, vote for the most conservative that is most likely to win even if he isn’t as conservative as you’d like.
Unless we elect a party that is truly conservative it is a waste of time. The Tories are Diet Labour. There is no hope unless the Tories are either forced to come to their senses or Reform displaces them. Voting for them at this point would just have rewarded their inadequacy and the wrong direction they are taking the country in.
There is no point in voting for the driver taking you to hell via the scenic route if you want to have a hope of not ending up there eventually.
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