{"id":6350,"date":"2024-01-14T20:00:37","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T20:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=6350"},"modified":"2024-01-14T20:00:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T20:00:39","slug":"why-tories-should-vote-against-tories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/?p=6350","title":{"rendered":"Why Tories Should Vote Against Tories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is going to be a bit of a departure from the normal far-left propaganda and I dare say almost every Tory<\/a> voter will be ignoring it. But maybe a few will at least listen – at least to me it makes sense. And not because I’ll not be voting Tory myself either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today’s Tory party is broken – to at least the extent that the Labour party was broken during the era of the Militant tendency<\/a>; they have been infiltrated by two (at least) factions of the far right. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first are your classic proto-fascists – nationalistic to the extreme, anti-immigration, and worried by “woke-ism” to the extent they’ll by really<\/em> nasty to those the wokeists will say you should be nice to. And I don’t just mean with words – they’re basic thugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second are disaster capitalists who don’t care about the country. They’re after enriching themselves and their rich mates. They’re after tax cuts – not because they believe in small government but because they want to cut taxes for the rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fix for this is to smash the party at the next election; anything less won’t work. The party needs to be reduced to the point that the extremists will give up on the party and leave for greener pastures. Hopefully they won’t find a new home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is quite possible that a loss at the next election won’t be quite enough – real Tories need to get out and shout down the extremists at every opportunity. The party needs to look closely at what the public as a whole wants – for example, sabotaging the NHS over the last decade has made much of the public very, very angry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the party needs to look very<\/em> closely at why the young steer clear – the way things are going at the moment, the Tory party will be having an annual conference in a back street pub in a couple of decades. The old adage about young people becoming more right-wing as they age is almost certainly wrong, but even if it’s right, they’ll be looking to the right-wing of the Labour party or the Liberals as their home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why am I trying to help the Tories? Because I’ll enjoy seeing the Tories have an election result that’ll make the 1906 disaster look like a tea party of course. But a relatively small loss won’t cause the party to do a proper reflection to the extent they need. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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