The Lost Tories

No, obviously it's not "left-wing" judges. Nor is it even the "left-wing" Establishment.

I mean, obviously both the judiciary and the Establishment more broadly are horrifically left-wing. And of course, more to the point, they're so left-wing they don't realise how left-wing they are. Once you've lost sight of the shore, after all, you can't possibly realise quite how far you've drifted from the land.

But the simple problem is that our entire society has by now drifted so far to the left, and that's because there's been nothing anchoring it to the real world of Church, country and family. The link to the Church was cut in the 16th century, the link between King and country was cut in the late 17th century, and the destruction of the family, which began in the 19th century (with the Marriage Act 1836), was eventually brought to a conclusion in the 21st century (with the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 making the ideological case, and the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020 administering the coup de grâce).

And that's because at every stage the resistance that should have been there should have been the Tory Party - and since 1834 the Tory Party simply (and quite literally!) has not existed. In its place has been an organisation that has always called itself "the Conservative Party" and yet has in fact never stood for or believed in actual conservatism at any time ever.* The hereditary principle meant little to them. Friendship with the soil meant nothing at all. Divine right was utterly beyond their comprehension. 

If the party that wants to be its successor is serious (yeah, right!), it will have to do slightly better than the fogeys, fascists and faggots who have made up "the Right" of the so-called Conservative Party. But in practice I feel they will (at least for a while) surf the same tide of nationalism that is sweeping larping national socialists to power in the Celtic fringe and literal national socialists into political office in "Muslim" areas of England.

Because who cares about hyper-inflation, baby-killing, or World War III breaking out in eastern Europe? So long as the man in charge looks like "one of us"!

*Even icky Alan Bickley over at the Libertarian Alliance gets the point of the Torygraph's pearl-clutching:

Conservative journalism has specialised in this sort of thing since the 1950s. You identify some development that threatens national ruin. You describe it with gloating horror. Then you stop—never the final step, never the remedy. The function, of course, is not remedy but sedation. It instructs the faithful that resistance is futile, that they are simply “on the wrong side of history.” Whether this paralysis comes from stupidity or cowardice no longer matters. The effect is the same: make every complaint a call to despair.

Well, quite!

(The rest of his article unfortunately is unreadable rambling drivel.)