As a fellow small c / burkean conservative living in north London, it feels as if we have no political home. I couldn’t vote for the worst possible government yesterday. I couldn’t also force myself vote for Sadiq Khan’s party.
There’s definitely an underground, mildly exciting feeling to it, like a secret sect, sharing extremist views like oikophilia while we sip our oat milk flat whites with our liberal mates, exchanging ironic smiles when we come across BLM banners on multi million house windows in crouch end.
- regards from the newly socialist republic of Barnet
I'm glad I'm not the only one to notice the inherent contradiction among the liberal-progressive voters of urban areas, voting in lockstep for left wing candidates but in real life quite happy to live in extremely stratified, segregated worlds that are anything but what they publicly proclaim at the polls. The leagues of well-off left wing urban voters happy to vote for the politically correct party and then sending their children to private schools and living in de facto segregated areas where property prices and NIMBYis keep out the undesirables, or colonising a select state school, allowing them to proclaim proud support for diverse state education while, of course, they wouldn't dare touch the 95% of state schools. And, in the US, eager to vote for the George-Soros funded progressive district prosecutors who decriminalize so many crimes leading to a rapid rise in violent crime, and that's fine because they don't have to live in the actual crime-ridden areas of their cities.
I did my bit in our part of London (Lab gain), voting Labour for the first time since 2015. It makes no sense in my circumstances to vote for the homeowner oligary party, and at least now we have a Labour Party run by gentlemen rather than the scum of the earth.
As a fellow small c / burkean conservative living in north London, it feels as if we have no political home. I couldn’t vote for the worst possible government yesterday. I couldn’t also force myself vote for Sadiq Khan’s party.
There’s definitely an underground, mildly exciting feeling to it, like a secret sect, sharing extremist views like oikophilia while we sip our oat milk flat whites with our liberal mates, exchanging ironic smiles when we come across BLM banners on multi million house windows in crouch end.
- regards from the newly socialist republic of Barnet
I'm glad I'm not the only one to notice the inherent contradiction among the liberal-progressive voters of urban areas, voting in lockstep for left wing candidates but in real life quite happy to live in extremely stratified, segregated worlds that are anything but what they publicly proclaim at the polls. The leagues of well-off left wing urban voters happy to vote for the politically correct party and then sending their children to private schools and living in de facto segregated areas where property prices and NIMBYis keep out the undesirables, or colonising a select state school, allowing them to proclaim proud support for diverse state education while, of course, they wouldn't dare touch the 95% of state schools. And, in the US, eager to vote for the George-Soros funded progressive district prosecutors who decriminalize so many crimes leading to a rapid rise in violent crime, and that's fine because they don't have to live in the actual crime-ridden areas of their cities.
What can one say?
Good article, as usual. Of course, the brave thing would have been to publish it yesterday 😉
Another excellent dose of positivity, from everyone’s favourite optimist.
This statement seems a bit at odds with the rest of the article
“ Conservatism is our default state”
Really? Based on whether we have cars or not? Article would have been better without that part. Or at least it should have been qualified further.
Default for who? The world is urbanising and has been for decades. Therefore I would argue, using your own argument, the new default is liberal.
I did my bit in our part of London (Lab gain), voting Labour for the first time since 2015. It makes no sense in my circumstances to vote for the homeowner oligary party, and at least now we have a Labour Party run by gentlemen rather than the scum of the earth.