On The Week In Westminster, Will Straw, who seems to have become ubiquitous out of thin air (or thin heir) as media favourites do, was forced to admit that his blog received comments from "traditional Labour supporters who are concerned at the policy implications" of the wholly discredited warmist cult. But don't expect to hear much more of that.
Just as the people who brought you the Treaty of Rome, the Single European Act and the Maastricht Treaty have managed to con a staggering number of people into believing that they are somehow sceptical about the EU, so they are now pulling off the same trick on warmism.
And just as nothing that they actually do ever dents the confidence of those whom they have taken in over the EU, so not even the appointment of Zac Goldsmith to the relevant Cabinet portfolio later on the same day that he is declared an MP for the first time, one of several such appointments planned by Cameron, will lead the deluded to snap out of it.
Contrary to all history and all logic, Eurofederalism and warmism have been defined as "left-wing". Making opposition to them "right-wing". So that "right-wingers" must by definition be so opposed. That's right. Isn't it...?
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There are eurosceptics and warmism-sceptics on the left and on the right. That is because there are conservatives on the left and on the right.
ReplyDeleteThe front benches of all the main parties, however, tend to be federalist and warmist, and generally un-conservative.
However, there is this difference: Tory opinion and opinion-formers seem able to be more openly sceptical of these things than Labour ones. The top ten Tory bloggers are to one degree or another (no pun intended!) climate change sceptics, and the Spectator and the Mail (both on the right) likewise.
Granted that left-wing sceptics are out there, indeed probably commonplace, there seems to be a difficulty in them being visible. Perhaps this is because Labour has been relying on liberal votes (the centre ground?) in addition to its natural conservative socialist base.
Obviously that's a potential problem for Cameron as he extends Tory support from a right-wing-conservative base into the centre ground of liberal modern culture. Will he sell out on these issues, from a conservative perspective? Almost certainly he already has! And like his Labour counterparts he will be out of step with his voters.
But in the Tories' a substantial proportion of his MPs, party opinion formers and press backers are self-declared opponents of many of his positions. Where are their Labour equivalents?
"The top ten Tory bloggers are to one degree or another (no pun intended!) climate change sceptics"
ReplyDeleteAnd their real influence is...
"But in the Tories' a substantial proportion of his MPs, party opinion formers and press backers are self-declared opponents of many of his positions"
Who? Where? The number of such MPs in the next Parliament will be negligible.
I am of course broadly in agreement with you.