The real danger
It is, to be fair, very common for politicians to say what people want to hear to get to the top. That has been going on for as long as politicians have existed, but what is different now is the constituency that they have to appeal to and how giving them what they want ties the politician’s hands for ever and not just the politicians trying to get elected.
So Jenrick and Badenoch are out there in la la land, trying to out do each other in being nasty to immigrants, lying about social integration, claiming the left has been in power for ever and threatening to leave the ECHR.
Already their right wind media masters are providing them with all the evidence they need to try to convince the wider electorate that these are serious issues that need addressing, when they are not.
Immigration is essential to the growth of the UK economy, we live in Margaret Thatcher’s world, leaving the ECHR would turn us into a pariah state.
But both candidates are so lacking in conviction and decency that they plan to get elected on this platform and there is no sign that they won’t lead with these policies too. If ever enacted we would be far worse off and isolated on the world stage but then Boris Johnson got away with lying and damaging the country, so they plan to do the same.
What next, leaving the Geneva conventions and the UN?
It is looking as if Cleverly was the best last hope of the Tory party, the remaining candidates cannot even see that they can never out Farage Reform.
But that does not mean the Tory party will implode, it still has lots of money and huge media support.
Now every crime committed by an immigrant, every failed deportation, every low paid job, every housing shortage, every hospital waiting list will be down to either immigration or the ECHR or both.
That is the real danger of this Tory party leadership election. They are trying to move the whole political debate onto their terms, and they are succeeding.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
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A serious examination of the ownership, role and responsibilities of the media seems long overdue (cf the way the US media treats Trump with kid gloves). Having large chunks of the MSM owned by crypto-fascist foreign billionaires (or privileged UK ones with non-dom status, etc) isn’t terribly helpful to an alleged democracy
To 'like' such a post is a dilemma. I agree with it and share the concerns and therefore apparently I must like it. But do I like the reality it represents. No, I do not. It worries me, and things are going to get a lot worse before they get better - if, that is, they ever do :-(