And now proof...
Oct. 3rd, 2012 10:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnny9fingers…That the world has lurched so far to the right as to make previous definitions untenable.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/03/ed-miliband-worthy-inheritor-disraeli-creed?INTCMP=SRCH
When the infant Miliband makes a statement that rings true, for all that he was unelectable until that moment; when the former union-dominated semi-socialist party can (alas) justly clothe itself in Disraeli's raiment; and when some callow youth usurps the principles of a century-and-more ago in the face of a coalition containing the party once renowned for upholding and promoting those values, the time has come for me to retire from satirical opinions about politics.
Nothing I can say quite conveys my astonishment at the position so presented: and all the more so because it is probably true. The Conservatives are essentially a group of freebooting free-trade economic liberals of the classical kind. And I suppose that the Labour party is beginning to resemble One Nation Tories of Disraeli's inflection: just the déclassé version thereof.
After all, it happened in America first with the great Southern Realignment. And we were always behind the times, so to speak.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/03/ed-miliband-worthy-inheritor-disraeli-creed?INTCMP=SRCH
When the infant Miliband makes a statement that rings true, for all that he was unelectable until that moment; when the former union-dominated semi-socialist party can (alas) justly clothe itself in Disraeli's raiment; and when some callow youth usurps the principles of a century-and-more ago in the face of a coalition containing the party once renowned for upholding and promoting those values, the time has come for me to retire from satirical opinions about politics.
Nothing I can say quite conveys my astonishment at the position so presented: and all the more so because it is probably true. The Conservatives are essentially a group of freebooting free-trade economic liberals of the classical kind. And I suppose that the Labour party is beginning to resemble One Nation Tories of Disraeli's inflection: just the déclassé version thereof.
After all, it happened in America first with the great Southern Realignment. And we were always behind the times, so to speak.
