What price victory?
The battle lines are being drawn up by the Tory party for the next election. They are going for the votes of older people, drivers, Brexit ultras, climate change deniers, and racists.
Unfortunately, for them, a Venn diagram of those groups is pretty circular, it looks like they are trying to win the votes of the same people again and again. But they are not stupid and they must have done some polling that suggests there is a chance to get a bandwagon rolling.
But to do that they are willing to ruin the planet, reverse decades of political consensus, kill pedestrians, and now threaten to break international law and withdraw from some of the most respected and universally supported international agreements.
Sir Jacob Rees Mogg now wants to not pay a fine to the ECJ, which would, at one stroke, undermine all agreements with the EU. The UK is also threatening to leave the ECHR and now the UN Convention on Refugees. Both of those would do even more damage to the UK’s relationship with the EU and just about everyone else as well.
A better plan to make yourself an international pariah, a no-mates loser, an economic basket case and an international laughing stock it is harder to imagine. But if you can whip up some false outrage and wave the flag, there may be votes in it.
Those who say that there is no difference between the Tory government and the Labour Party need to take a long look at these issues and think about the future of this country.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
By Jonty Bloom Media