14 July

The obvious evidence that conservative politics worldwide was simply bought out by the big end of town, is that these parties have the same 3 policies no matter what crisis or situation is in front of them. Cut taxes, cut regulation, reduce the size of government. Whether it’s the Earth incinerating under global warming or the entire globe in the grip of a pandemic, it’s always the same policies. It’s the only policies conservative parties have because they’re not political parties now, they’re old lobby groups where the lobbyists actually bypassed politics and put their own people directly into parliament. How do they get away with it? By convincing us that society is really an ‘economy’, and surprise surprise, the economy apparently needs? Taxes cut, regulation cut, government cut. It was superbly done, we’re just too lazy to see it.