Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "the Conservative party is dead" video.

  1. Indeed, the Tory party lost all of its, “states,” men and women, years ago. I felt that the likes of Cameron were more like the donors and influencers within the elite, holding the fort until more talented MP’s could rise again. Then, after he resigned, we were left with the genuinely untalented leftovers who would NEVER have risen so high in less chaotic times. The, “characters,” the chancers and Neo-Libs, who, as you point out, acted with callous indifference, entitled cruelty, incompetence and corruption. It is truly sad that the, (oxymoronically named) “Conservatives,” are now having their civil war in the public domain, in this unedifying, unbecoming manner. But that’s what you get when no one has any ideology or ideas. The Tories have no, “story,” to tell about national identity, national character, our destiny or even our general direction. I think they do know what direction they all agree upon, in which they really want to take the country, but they know they cannot sell that story to the British people, as it would horrify even their most rabid supporters. A Neo-Liberal hellscape, in which corporations from all over the planet own everything, including security, policing and healthcare, is not any voter’s idea of a good time. You’re right. They’re all out of fig leaves, and they don’t even have sufficient self respect or decency to step into the shadows, admit defeat and see to their domestic squabbles in the privacy of their own homes. We must partake in the public spectacle as if politics was just I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!
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  2. Opening with Robert Peel was rather an elegant touch, I thought. I gave myself a quick refresher by reading Katie Carpenter’s brief summary on the Corn Laws, on the Parliamentary website, before continuing. Notably, Peel knew that repealing the laws would cost him dear and, sure enough, he lost his premiership amid a civil war within the Conservatives. Yet, he was ultimately vindicated. All of the fears expressed by the Corn Law supporters were proved false. There was no surge in foreign wheat, glutting the British markets. Prices did not plummet to unmanageable figures. Instead, the people at, “the coal face,” (so to speak) who dealt and traded with Spain, Norway and the other bogey men countries mentioned in pro Corn Law petitions, came up with solutions that benefitted all parties and took the broader consequences of international trade into account. One could hypothesise that a new form of, “internationalism,” or, an awakening within the trading classes, as to a broader influence on the country’s affairs through international trade, began. Not for nothing had Napoleon dismissed the British as a, “nation of shop keepers,” well within living memory. The British have always had a better grasp of economics and reale politic than their leaders have given them credit for.
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