I’d like to draw your attention to a few characteristics of fascism…

Watching the stupid unfold from the stage at the National Conservatism conference we compiled our Top Ten of the stupidest things said at the new event that marks the convergence point of the Tory party with neo-fascism  …

Straight in an No. 1 is Yoram Hazony …

Just to say Yoram – Britain hasn’t existed for 1000 years – it’s not been a shining beacon for anywhere – and this isn’t my inheritance. Apart from that, this is great stuff.

Straight in at No 2 is Tory MP Danny Kruger …

Kruger is soon upstaged by Katharine Birbalsingh (no me neither) who has some great insights into Whitney Houston lyrics …

Straight in at No. 4 is Alex Kaschuta …

I mean we hear ya Alex! I guess the best thing about these far-right gatherings is what they say when they are off-the-leash. No need to de-code this Ted Talk!

Next up at No. 5 is the Tories very own Danny Kruger with one of many pledges to the Traditional Family:

At No. 6 and 7 we have big Frank Furedi with some quotes that sound like they’ve been made by the SpikedBotQuoteGenerator …

 

At No. 8 more from Mad Frankie …

Straight in at No 9 it s Miss Snuffy!

At No 10 we have Suella with more of the “It’s Not Racists to Be Racist chat” … (yes it is you fucking travesty) …

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  1. Alasdair Angus Macdonald says:

    Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad.

    1. James Mills says:

      …or Tory dingbats !

  2. Jake Solo says:

    And?

    What’s the point of this?

    Tories are bad, m’kay.

    No shit?

    Well we’re stuck with them until we either replace the burst SNP or it somehow purges itself of 90% of its own useless or traitorous payroll weight and remains alive.

    That’s priority number 1. The SNP is either supplanted from without or overhauled from within. Nothing else positive for Scotland can happen until that does.

    1. These aren’t just ‘Tories’ – this is a new and particularly radical strain of thinking bringing together the most toxic elements of the far-right. If you can’t discern a difference I can’t help you. Some of it is laid out here: https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2023/05/01/britain-and-the-new-national-conservatism/

      1. Derek Thomson says:

        Don’t Mike. He’s all over the National with the same tripe. Don’t feed him.

    2. John says:

      SNP – supplanted by who?
      Alba – a party born out of bitterness whose main aim seems to be to bring down the SNP (like it or not the only feasible political party for independence), who are doing the unionists dirty work for them and who have consistently polled virtually bugger all in every Scottish election.
      The hard facts are that for Scotland to become successfully independent it will require approval by and support from the majority of democratic countries, the EU and other international institutions.
      Realpolitik dictates that this approval will only be forthcoming when other countries and international institutions see that the majority of Scottish electorate support independence. The 2014 referendum was described by AS at time as the Gold Standard method to achieve independence and remains. so. I fail to see how using other elections as de facto referendums will achieve independence which is why this strategy fails to achieve widespread support across independence movements.
      In my opinion if Westminster will not agree to a Section 30 then all de facto routes can do is bring pressure to bear on Westminster to agree to an S30.
      Otherwise the only route to independence is for Holyrood to organise a referendum without Westminster consent. This will probably be boycotted by No side in which case there will need to be a massive Yes vote probably equalling or surpassing the No vote in 2014. A scale of vote that no de facto method would come close to achieving. A large vote of this magnitude in favour of independence would clearly demonstrate that independence was settled will of Scottish electorate and gain the internal support required for a successful independent Scotland out enormous pressure on Westminster to accept vote and negotiate an independence settlement.
      What the SNP need to do is get over current difficulties which will pass, improve openness and governance and set out a clear and realistic path for independence and engage with other independence groups to achieve this aim.

  3. Thought-policed says:

    The tenor of this conference is so nasty, and polarising. But I’ve read so many rightly horrified comments in my feed I’m here to take a slightly dissenting view.

    As a widow who took two decades to line up all the ducks for starting a family, I see everything my kid misses out on by not having a father. I consider the years spent toiling in some bureaucracy, suffering low level sexual harassment and pay discrimination, as essentially wasted years compared to the fulfilment of having a family.

    I will defend the right to have an abortion to my dying breath. But we live in a country where almost 1 in 4 pregnancies are aborted. Surely there needs to be a conversation about that – be it sex education, giving parents more support, or access to contraception?

    As an atheist: is more evidence for the existence of Jesus as a historical figure than there is for a gender that is distinct from sex. Identity ideology is a madness; and the growing practise of surrogacy that facilitates it is, in my view, a moral wrong which is profoundly anti-woman.

    So yes, I deplore everything about these nasty, crypto-fascist loons. But let’s have a serious conversation about this. Do we at least agree that society needs limits to moral relativism, as a starting point?

  4. SleepingDog says:

    Is some of this an attack on King Charles, or am I assuming too much coherence, rationality and consistency here?

    1. Niemand says:

      It’s an interesting point. For these people I suspect Charles would be considered ‘woke’.

    2. thought-policed says:

      I wondered about that too; and on Boris Johnson.

      1. SleepingDog says:

        @thought-policed, indeed, and quite a lot of other politicians, and paragons of the right, seem to be massive hypocrites about ‘family values’.

        I was reminded again of the white Christian supremacist (and arch hypocrite, apparently) J Edgar Hoover when I read this book review today:
        “A new book looks back at the long-serving FBI director’s devotion to keeping America a white Christian republic and the devastating effect he had”
        https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/21/the-gospel-of-j-edgar-hoover-lerone-martin
        The author is quoted as saying: “Psychology and history tells us that it’s often those who are protesting extremely loudly as it relates to queerness are battling something inside beyond just concerns about other folks being queer.”

        @Niemand, yes, but what is the NatCon solution to a hereditary monarch they take a dislike to? Are they pro- or anti-nepotism? Or does their political platform not really make any sense as a model? Do they recognise that the British Empire still exists, and its territories will be affected by things like the tranche of EU-era legislation listed for expiry (tax havens etc.)? Or are they just repeatedly changing flags like a pirate ship zig-zagging through the Caribbean in the age of sail? Or just stooges, lackeys, grifters, delusionists, attention-seekers, agents and assets?

        1. Derek says:

          Viz got it spot-on – as they do from time to time – with their prody of a – presumably – tory MP. I forget his name, Victor Values or something like; speak one way and act another.

          1. SleepingDog says:

            @Derek, sounds like the Victorian values of public virtue, private vice.

            Oh, perhaps I am being unkind, and National Conservatism is simply the result of years of accumulated air pollution on human cognition. Well, with the Tory bonfire of environmental law, they may finally have found the recipe for unity, as Britain will be smothered beneath a stupefying cloudbase of toxic vapour against which the European west coast will have to erect giant batteries of gargantuan fans, which will so resemble wind turbines that our cognitively-defunct population will be kept in a perpetual state of harmonious rage.

          2. Derek Thomson says:

            Baxter Basics Deek.

  5. Richard Anderson says:

    I believe @Miss_Snuffy is Katherine Birbalsingh who was the pet education reformer of Gove

  6. The Id says:

    My goodness, the author must spend a lot of time on Twitter. Does he think it’s influencial to most people or maybe Tiktok is hip? Is he ruled by the South African Space Captain (Twitter On Mars?)? Perhaps Scots have a wish to evolve into internet-enabled mobile phone creatures and be goverened by O2. Anyway, #Tories bad, #eat the rich, people not #profits, climates #not capatalists#.

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