The Overall Picture

The Conservatives have an overall majority. If that party were on side, then David Cameron would have no reason to care what Jeremy Corbyn thought about anything. Evidently, then, it is not.

As for the rather pathetic table-banging throwbacks at the Parliamentary Labour Party, they are still overcompensating for their sectarian Leftist pasts, even though that did not involve alliance with any enemies of the British State rather than merely of the financial backers of the Conservative Party, and later also of New Labour.

The failure to distinguish between the two, even to the point of launching wars in the service of those backers, is the great constitutional outrage of our time.

The Labour Governments of the 1960s and 1970s had problems with the trade unions precisely because they knew that there was a difference. But no difference between the moneybags and the State has been apparent to any Government since 1979.

The gung-ho tendency in the Conservative Party is also motivated by curious aspects of its own youth. Such people, including Cameron, still bark in the manner that they at least imagine Officers to bark, and they are angrily baffled that the rest of us do not respond as Other Ranks are obliged to do.

But if asked, then they, including Cameron, would regard the Officer Corps as where School sent the thick boys, while the Other Ranks were just dregs to them, although they were at least dregs that knew their place.

In Labour and Conservative ranks alike, from such weird excuses for late adolescence springs the actual or potential devastation of much of the earth.