Not To Say Moonshine

"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we have two great types -- the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins. He admires them especially by moonlight, not to say moonshine. Each new blunder of the progressive or prig becomes instantly a legend of immemorial antiquity for the snob. This is called the balance, or mutual check, in our Constitution."

So this Progressive Alliance is to include the more pro-austerity and pro-war party to the Coalition, a party that supports zero economic growth and can only celebrate the defeat of the miners in 1985, a party with a long and thoroughly neoliberal record in office while trying to weaken the workers of Great Britain by splitting it up, and a party that, while it does provide the numbers for a programme that might very well have been adopted anyway, nevertheless also aspires to that dissolution. All headed up by Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper, David Lammy, Wes Streeting, Pat McFadden, Peter Kyle, and all the rest of the warmongering opponents of levelling up. We must defeat the lot of them. We have two equally visceral electoral enemies, the Conservative Party and the Progressive Alliance.