Conservative Home's Editor, failing to learn the lessons of the past decade and seemingly happy to return to the judgmental days of "back to basics" and "the nasty party", joins in the general huffing, puffing and finger-wagging at young men. At a stroke he and other social conservatives satisfy their consciences, publicly exhibit their piety and radiate self-satisfied smugness.
Is there nothing the Tory Taliban will not do in their desire to turn the Conservative Party into a branch of the Samaritans or the Salvation Army? At the very time that the Labour Party is imploding, why do these Alan Partridge Conservatives - stuffy, uptight and out of touch - feel the need to hijack the agenda yet again? I'm reminded of the classic Partridge sketch when he speaks to his secretary about the sordid concept of, ahem, "water sports". "Maybe they were just caught short, Alan?" she innocently wonders. "They do it on purpose, Lynn", Partridge angrily snaps. It is that puce-faced anger that the God-botherers wish to exhibit, rather than genuine Christian love. How unhappy the lives of these people must be for them to leap on the first issue they can find to lecture others so unpleasantly about something so harmless.
One of the commenters on ConHom has it right - stay out of the bedroom and out of the boardroom. The notion that lads' magazines is responsible for societal breakdown is as fatuous and suggesting that the placing of Terry's Chocolate Oranges by the checkout is directly responsible for the obesity epidemic. Surely we as Conservatives have more important fish to fry than Nuts or Zoo?
6 comments:
Absolutely. Couldn't put it any better.
Donal the point is that they do not have the imagination to figure out what really needs to be done. So they just spend their time bandwagon jumping and faffing about. Doing a fair job at not missing a chance to be authoritarian either.
Excellent Donal. You always get it right.
Non-moralistic/socially liberal (in the true sense) people who are economically sane are a huge slice of the potential Conservative electorate. They voted for Maggie and they voted for Blair. It is madness to turn them against us now, just as things are going so well.
Let's face facts. The mags in question are undoubtedly tasteless crap and these were only a few lines in a good and thoughtful speech by Michael. But they were badly misjudged and send a signal at odds with so much we have been trying to achieve since Cameron became leader.
We all make mistakes, even the usually marvellous Gove. Hopefuly he will take the reception this received well on board.
Yup.
Well said. Been telling everyone I can that moralistic and authoritarian politics will be over when the tories get back in. Conhome seem to think otherwise.
So is it a capital offence to say the Empror (as well as the cover girl) has no clothes?
I guess I do cover girls a disservice associating them with the vacuous tarts exposing them selves in magazines like NUTS, Bollocks or whatever.
These 'mags' are indeed shit shite and crap all combined. Why can't someone say so?
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