UNFIT TO GOVERN

Recently writing in the Daily Mail, Daniel Hannan (a former Tory MEP and now a member of the House of Lords) sought to explain why the Tories were more in step with public opinion than Labour. In that article, Lord Hannan argued that the public would regret voting Labour, who, he alleged, would be far more woke than the Tories.

Lord Hannan alleged that there was ‘a world of difference’ between the current situation where, allegedly, ‘activist officials slipping identity politics past distracted ministers, and activist officials being encouraged from the top to make everything they do about diversity, equality and inclusion’. Allegedly, the Tories had made an effort to try to ‘constrain the Leftist tendencies of the administrative state’. As an example, he cited the new rules introduced in schools about ‘trans issues’.

Lord Hannan complained that the Tories were pushing to send illegal immigrants to Rwanda and this was ‘in the teeth of opposition from every other party’. He acknowledged that people might think that the Tories’ efforts had been ‘insufficient’, that ‘a determined government would stamp its will on even the most woke civil servants’, and that such people ‘might have a point’. However, in his ‘experience’ (ie he knows best) those ‘who have not been closely involved with politics can’t imagine how difficult it is for ministers to get policies through their departments’.

According to Lord Hannan, ‘we currently have ministers whose starting assumption is that Britain is a non-racist country that our identity as individuals matters more than the accident of our birth or physiognomy, and that no one should be fired for expressing views that were mainstream until five minutes ago.’

Many, if not most people, will be unpersuaded by this reasoning. As the Tories will find out on polling day later this year. The assumption is that if things are difficult, then it is all everyone else’s fault and the Tories cannot be blamed for being unable to govern – despite a thumping majority of MPs.

In a previous post I quoted from Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: volume 3, in which he set out the incompetence of the two Roman emperors primarily responsible for the Western empire’s demise. I remarked that the quote ‘describes a ruling elite completely unfit to govern. They restrict their activities and government policy to that which does not exceed “the measure of their capacity”, or deviate from “precedents of office”. The same could be said of governments across the West today. The so-called Conservatives are incompetent and simply preside rather than govern.’ (see here)

Over the last 14 years in government, the Tories have been just as politically correct as Labour (political correctness being the mechanism for the imposition of cultural Marxism). They have promoted race war politics, globalisation, and even the mutilation of our children. They have happily funded and bestowed honours on those Leftists who are openly hostile to the West, the UK and the English in particular. Theresa May, who was prime minister, has happily described herself as being woke and was keen to de-medicalise the mutilation of trans children (in 2018, Theresa May advocated she wanted a ‘more streamlined and de-medicalised’ procedure).

The Tories are in trouble on immigration because they deliberately adopted an open door policy, refused to return those on the dinghies crossing the Channel back to France, refused to leave the various treaties that enabled so-called asylum seeking, and refused to deport illegal immigrants. The Tories are in such a state of torpor that they cannot even deport those immigrants convicted of gang-raping our children.

It is not the case that if ministers find things too difficult, then we have to put up with the consequences. If ministers find it easier to preside, then they need replacing. Ultimately, the voters will have to do that on polling day later this year.

So far as Lord Hannan’s globalist, liberal promotion of ‘our identity as individuals’ as opposed to ‘the accident of our birth or physiognomy’ – he could not be more wrong. Nationhood and nationality are fundamental.