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  1. I’ve seen 3 or 4 Brits, including Nigel Farage, make the same point as Mark Steyn. Other than Brexit, Boris Johnson acted like a liberal. I bolded “acted” to include Johnson’s hypocrisy with respect to Wuhan virus restrictions.

  2. as I proposed a few days, this ritual exercise was ‘full of sound and fury signifying nothing’ the worse perpetrators against the british people, were the likes of home secretary javid, who treated citizens like cattle, and health undersecretary zahwari, they carried out the policies without complaint, yes johnson is still addicted to clean energy phantoms, as is most of the political class, and this made England Airship One to riff on Orwell, or citing ‘sympathy for the devil’

  3. And what triggered this, at this time, was reportedly Tory MPs looking at the prospect of losing their seats. It will be interesting to see if the next party leader of the Conservatives is, well, conservative in any real sense.

  4. I can’t help but wonder if Mark Steyn realizes that he’s just made the argument that the UK also has a UniParty?

  5. @ Frank B > “What a waste of a massive electoral mandate.”

    Kind of reminds me of the way that the GOP RINOs, having gained both houses of Congress and the Presidency, then fought against every conservative policy they had championed on the campaign trail.

    @ Geoffrey > “I can’t help but wonder if Mark Steyn realizes that he’s just made the argument that the UK also has a UniParty?”

    Staying tuned – he didn’t have to say the words to describe the concept.
    Maybe that will be the subject of another post.

  6. Boring picked one issue to be tough on: Brexit. But he never wanted to do the hard work of building support for any other conservative policies. He’s always had assistants to do that while he lounged back doing Churchill impressions.

    He desperately wanted to be the prime minister. He didn’t want to be the bad guy an effective PM must be, sometimes.

  7. @ Gordon > “Boring picked one issue to be tough on: Brexit.”

    And he (more or less) succeeded.
    If his Party wasn’t competent enough to make good on the other expectations of its (new and old) voters, that’s not entirely his problem.

    However, I do think Steyn is right: the entire Tory Party is not what we over here think as conservative.
    Neither is the GOP.

  8. It’s hard to get things done in politics and hard to change course once you’re elected. Britain isn’t going to have a Conservative government that American conservatives would approve of, and while voters may want “change” in general, they aren’t so enthusiastic about specific changes governments want to make.

    Yes, Boris never found an issue or program to replace Brexit. He lacked the “vision thing,” but that fault seems to be more systemic than unique to him. Voters are discontented, but it’s not clear what they do want or what changes they will support or put up with.

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