The Decade in Tory: An Inventory of Idiocy from the Coalition to Covid

We live on this planet with billions of other people, and we have to make it work. So patriotism is building sound and convivial relationships with our neighbors and allies. It is tackling global climate change in congress with the entire world, not seeking ways to screw our rivals and condemn our grandkids to a terrifying heat death.Simply being British isn’t enough...
Patriotism is about crushing corruption and fostering decency, rather than the other way around. Those things are patriotic. Not flags. Fuck your flags. Flags are just the wrapping paper around those things, and nothing more. Yet increasingly they’re wrapped around a hollowed-out nation.The good of the public, our futures, the country, our neighbors, our allies and the world – under the Tories those things have become secondary considerations to vacuous nationalism and the acquisition of power, if they’re considered at all.
The distinguishing features of the Conservative Party after a decade in office are: the deification of Winston Churchill; relentless agitation for a distracting culture war; and the corruption of our national institutions and resources for private gain. The main tool for delivering this has been chaos, behind which their malefaction has run riot. And it will continue to be like this until enough of us demand better.
If I believed in God, I’d pray for an end to this. But God isn’t listening, and not enough of the public are either. Until one or the other wakes up, a perpetual vortex of agitation is where we are all doomed to live.
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