The forthcoming British General Election and the Tory Party

 On 22nd May 2024 the British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told the country he had asked the King to dissolve Parliament.  He made his announcement soaked in the rain let down upon him by the British weather and to the racket of New Labour's so-called election anthem in 1997, a pop song called "It can only get better".  The announcement seemed to symbolise the disarray of the last Parliament in which the Conservatives threw away the potential opportunity of a large majority in the House of Commons.

How did it go so wrong?  There is something about bad faith with the Conservative Party in that it is largely made up of liberals pretending to be conservative in the ordinary dictionary-definition meaning of the word.  On the so-called Right of the party, there is an ideological zeal about neoliberal economics.  They were determined Brexit should be an opportunity for global capital rather than a reassertion of national identity and protection.  On the left of the party there are the so-called "One Nation" Conservatives whose liberal policies and desire to surrender the nation to the globalist EU belie their chosen name.

We have a party of liberals masquerading as conservatives.  There are some honourable exceptions of course, but there is a mismatch between the conservatism of many shire voters and the liberalism of the parliamentary party, be it neoliberal economics or on the other wing an acceptance of the woke social agenda,

The British establishment is essentially liberal.  Brexit presented an opportunity for a new approach, a genuine and traditionalist conservatism, emphasising tradition, patriotism and conservative social values.  A coalition of voters arose of working-class former labour voters and traditionalist shire voters that supported the Conservative Party led by arch-liberal Boris Johnson and put them into government.  This was an opportunity for a genuine conservative alliance.  The parliamentary party though could not bring itself to adopt what it sneeringly regarded as a "populist" approach.  Boris Johnson had successfully persuaded the voters he was a conservative and a patriot, but he was really a globalist liberal.  He reversed some restrictions on mass migration introduced by his predecessor Mrs Theresa May.  He also jumped on board the anti-human net zero agenda, which plans to destroy livestock farming and cover our green and pleasant land into pastures of metal in the form of wind farms and solar panels.  

The respect for the freedom of ordinary Britons was disregarded in favour of the Fabian agenda of control during the Covid lockdown and the propaganda about an untested vaccine.    The short-lived premiership of Liz Truss, ideologically liberal in economic terms is well recited.  Probably the Indian Rishi Sunak was the most conservative of Britain's three nominally conservative prime ministers.   

Eagerly looking at the possibility of power arch globalist and establishment figure Sir Kier Starmer, leader of the Labour Party is an uncharismatic manifestation of globalist ideology - he even claims not to know the definition of a woman . . .

The trouble is in fighting any battle on conservative lines, the Conservative Party has an adulterated and compromised record.  It really seems its default position is to be on the liberal side of the culture war and only reluctantly fights for conservative values because politically it would be insane not to.  And so we have a party that calls itself conservative, but does not really believe in conservatism, fighting what is really the most culturally-revolutionary and globalist Labour Party since Blair. 

The Government's position on Russia is telling.  In a sense the Donbas is the sharp end of the culture war.  As Patriarch Kirill has stated, there is a spiritual and value element to the conflict.  President Putin has been enshrining in law conservative family values.  The Conservative Party as part of the liberal British establishment feels more naturally allied to the Ukrainian regime - supported by a strange coalition of arch Nazis and arch liberals determined to attack the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

A "right-wing" alternative has emerged by the name of Reform.  A reformed Brexit Party.  It is committed to a radical constitutional agenda of reform that seems to be based upon Jacobin ideology.

What all this seems to tell us is that despite the courageous Brexit vote, as long as politics through parliamentary democracy remains in the hands of the British elite the voter will only be offered different shades of liberalism.  The Conservative Party has the merit of slowing down the globalist agenda for its own electoral advantage (seemingly not out of conviction).  Nonetheless, the trajectory of the United Kingdom will remain globalist for as long as the current establishment remains in power.  From the Conservative Party to the Church of England the progressive liberal ideology permeates, with no alternative on offer.  Our traditions, our institutions might appear ancien regime, but as Bagehot put it we are a "veiled republic" and the underlying ideology is progressive and Fabian.