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Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social |
We're witnessing the death throes of British Conservatism iandunt.substack.com/p/the-death-...
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solvognen
@solvognen.bsky.social
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In its traditional manifestation, perhaps. But its new manifestations are pupating in plain sight. 🫤
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solvognen
@solvognen.bsky.social
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It's a metastasising cancer, whose lies will always find funders and propagators, the excising of one tumour does not eliminate the disease. 🫤
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Stuart 🏴🇪🇺 in 🇳🇱
@stuartbladen.bsky.social
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At last! A brexit benefit!
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Jonny Morris
@jonnymorris.bsky.social
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Markus Eichhorn
@markuseichhorn.bsky.social
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Recently I met with a former MP (not a Tory) who was dismayed by the state of the Conservative Party for exactly this reason. We might entirely disagree with it but that intellectual tradition still has value.
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@uruzrune.bsky.social
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Hasn't Labour similarly declined? What's going to replace these parties?
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Writer, Master Gardener, Genealogist-lover of Scandi Noir films
@lhlawson.bsky.social
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“Electoral death is merely the death of the body. It was preceded by the death of the Tory soul.” Very accurate and powerful statements. The exact same could be said for the US Republican Party.
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Anders
@effektbryter.bsky.social
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Yeah, this is all well and good, but I’m afraid you are horribly wrong. As long as we don’t know where the crypt is we can’t stake its heart with a wooden stake with a golden crucifix. The crates with pottersfield soil from its homeland can’t be poured into the night sea…
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Dawn Britten
@dawnbritten.bsky.social
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This is excellent Ian. What a state they and we are in. 100 per cent re Rory. It’s madness.
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Charlotte Augst
@charlotteaugst.bsky.social
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I read your recent missive on how writing is hard. Which of course it is. Well, let me say, this is an excellent piece of writing. So you made it work.
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James Carrier
@studiousbadger.bsky.social
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Firstly, this is fabulous writing. Secondly, just checking you know this is how your email marketing currently looks at the pointy end (very on brand but might take some by surprise? 🤣)
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David Tinson
@sharkgrappler.bsky.social
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Let's hope it is truly dead and buried this year.
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God-Emperor Tsunami 💙 #FBPE #BLM #GTTO
@tsunami65.bsky.social
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Sounds good, 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿
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Michael
@mykld.bsky.social
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Thanks for ensuring that Theresa May’s role in all this doesn’t get overlooked.
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Aria Underground, Roleplayer Without Portfolio
@ariaunderground.bsky.social
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Please?
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LaurenceM
@biglarry2k23.bsky.social
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Good - let’s make sure the fascists hiding under the other Tory / UKIP spinoffs are also dumped in the bin .
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@memccarron.bsky.social
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Thank you for your writings; I include my too long reply below, which I see now I sloppily called myself Irish, but I'm Irish-American with half Irish DNA, the rest Germanic, Norwegian, Scottish...but that's a distraction from the point regarding the death of wisdom within western conservatism.
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Claire
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I have to explain my jokes
@mikeauld.bsky.social
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A well written piece Ian. And timely, given the ridiculous culture war over an England shirt being fought today. The rage over flags is a big far-right populist ploy when there’s a national identity crisis. Look at where that gets you across the Irish Sea.
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Greg
@genialgneall.bsky.social
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I so hope so, but voting booths are confidential and people will tick that Conservative box - just because they always have. I will believe when I see it.
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@mariannevelvart.bsky.social
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I bloody well hope but don't think so. Not while the right wing elite billionaire class own most of the megaphones.
#MediaReform
#ElectoralReform
#ProportionalRepresentation
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Max B #FBPE #FBPR #GTTO 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺
@maxbrockbank.com
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The stench of corruption coming from what remains of the Tory party is all you need to know that the organisation is well past its sell-by date.
#GTTO
#GENow
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Malcolm Quinn
@malrog.bsky.social
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Johnson made the Conservative Party into a vehicle for his ambitions then abandoned it in a lay-by.
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Tom Runnacles
@tomrunnacles.bsky.social
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Very interesting piece! The parts about the value in conservatism remind me of Jerry Cohen’s thoughts on that subject.
jablevine.com/papers/cohen...
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The chicken lady
@chickenlady.bsky.social
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Have you noticed the parallels between UK and USA? Similar is happening in Germany. Croatia. They've all become complete kompromat weirdos
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Gavin Smith
@smithg.bsky.social
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Death of the Conservative Party might actually be a real Brexit Benefit.
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James
@jamesh1.bsky.social
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I dunno. It has a capacity for reinvention which other political parties (looking at my own here) struggle with.
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Thersites
@greyg.bsky.social
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Brilliant stuff Ian. I wonder whether a contributory factor is the fact the party had to embrace being a force for radical reform (through Brexit, via Cummings) which inevitably ripped the very soul out of it.
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Janet Bufton
@jbufton.bsky.social
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I wonder how the 1993 collapse of the Canadian Progressive Conservatives (fell from a majority to two seats, losing official party status) is inherently different and how that collapse might have looked if it happened in today's political context.
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Eddie Dolan
@eddiedolan.bsky.social
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They've been moving right to placate the far right, who used to be dismissed as swivel eyed loons, since at least 2010.
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Simon Faull
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I so hope that this comes to pass.
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Sylvia
@sylvia-suffragette.bsky.social
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Really? Hasn’t the Labour Party taken on British Conservatism?
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