As has been happening at by-elections for over a year,
Labour got 60 per cent of the vote in Southern villages where it had not stood
candidates in 30 years, if ever, because the inhabitants of Midsomer, Ambridge
and Dibley do not like Post Office privatisation, foreign-owned toll roads,
deregulated Sunday trading, the breaking up and flogging off of the NHS, and
all the other crazy, Blairy schemes of the market fundamentalist think tank
teenagers.
But the Conservative Party can still win with a socially ultraliberal Ottoman aristocratic of very recent extraction, in these Islands' only city where hardly any primary school children speak English at home, and in no small measure due to organised communal voting by a heavily concentrated ethnic minority with closer ties to a foreign and fairly hostile state than, manifestly, to the overwhelming bulk of their own nominal compatriots.
Tory England lives. In what can now reasonably be described as the core Labour vote. The remnant Conservative vote is now something else entirely...
When you say "hardly any primary school children speak English at home", what proportion do you mean by that? And what's your source from which you drew this conclusion?
ReplyDeleteJonathan Jones's recent cover article in The Spectator, although I have heard it many times before.
ReplyDeleteIt seems to be pretty much taken as read there these days, that the number of native English-speakers below the age of 11 is distinctly minoritarian, while the number below the age of five is now negligible.
Such is the only city like that in these Islands, culturally less British than Dublin or Cork. And such is the only city where the Conservative Party can still win.
Your influence would be frightening if you were not on our side. Just finished the book, the book of its generation as far as I am concerned and I am not the only one.
ReplyDeleteEveryone who is anyone in the coming power has read it. Anyone who hasn't is a nobody, a Blairite relic whose only consolation this week has been the victory of Boris Johnson. Their campaigning for him should be enough to get them expelled from the party soon enough.
You were possibly hoping for a relatively mass audience but you don't need one because you have reached everyone who matters. This week's election results have vindicated your thesis entirely, as this post explains.
You are a terrible loss, you should have been an MP in 2010 and a minister in 2015. The spiteful old pit yakkers who kept you down in favour of unelectable joke candidates who cannot write their own names are the ones who should have been expelled.
You could still be a Minister as you ought to be. I know you do not like either Lords reform or US-style separation of powers, but the first one will almost definitely mean a move towards allowing the PM to appoint Ministers from outside Parliament altogether. You are probably well enough known and regarded around the next PM to hope with good reason to benefit from that. By 2015 there will be no doubt about it. The only question will be whether you want it.
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