'Being nasty and xenophobic is no longer the prerogative of party outliers and fringe headbangers but practically de rigueur for advancement in contemporary Conservative cabinets' // ruth_wishart
asked them to understand why “some people” called them the nasty party: “Our base is too narrow and so, occasionally, are our sympathies”.
When she talked about demonising minorities, I doubt she envisioned a time when that thinly disguised racism would morph into policies to export asylum seekers to countries whose grasp of human rights was even shakier than those of the current UK administration. Thus we seem doomed to live in a nasty world which dwarfs anything obtained in 2002. Worse still, being nasty and xenophobic is no longer the prerogative of party outliers and fringe headbangers but practically de rigueur for advancement in contemporary Conservative cabinets. Not least in May’s old stamping ground at the Home Office.
There is, of course, a connecting thread here. Both disasters were the result of a brand of raw populism which majored in slogans rather than knowledge; ignorance rather than expertise. And connection too, in that both countries seem able to tolerate naked prejudice and anger in a way which used to be alien to public discourse and debate.
Mr Grimes has a bit of form. He set up the youth wing of Vote Leave called BeLeave, which was used by the former body as a conduit for funding which would have otherwise breached electoral spending rules. The money came from the infamous Canadian company AggregateIQ, which funded many pro-Brexit projects.
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