Posted by David Davis
The increasingly prevailing uselessness of the Tory party, still pretending as it does to act as a virtual-advertising-agency that is supposed to service the “Liberty” account, upsets me. As per my yesterday’s comments, here we have a quite large, potentially-capable polity-managing-machine, which used to be at least vaguely on the side of people running their own lives in an English-sort of Judaeo-Christian way, and it’s effectively broken and out of petrol. It was “The Natural Party of Government”, in a strict sense that applies to more-or-less-free Anglosphere Christian nations, and in the sense that “government” was a sort of minority activity, carried on by grandees and retired colonels largely without thought of personal gain, that impinged very little on the lives of ordinary people.
Today we have an ex-communist judge, Sir Stephen Sedley, braying for a DNA-database-4-all (see your Torygraph) and there seems so far to be no reaction from Dave - if a week is a long time in politics, then a couple of hours or overnight (I saw it last might) ought to be time to get some policy-wonks out of bed to throw a cutard pie or two and keep faith with the two remaining “core voters”.
Nothing so far at time of posting, from major Westminster Tories, saying that anything which increases State power over individuals rather than the reverse, is suspect on principle. You can understand Boris’s silence, for he is heading for the Door-Out-Of-Hell already. (I hope he wins, by the way. you must guess that Cameron wanted him out of the way, as a potential adversary.)
I may be wrong, but I can’t envisage a scenario in which the majority of even today’s British subjects could be in favour of this collectivist DNA idea.
Also, where are the denizenazis of the effectively-state-run tourism “industry”, who ought to be protesting at the notion that all visiting foreigners, even for a day or so, have to be on it too? This will of course do wonders for airport queues and tourism revenue!
Where do they make these people? “Universities”? If so, which ones? I hope he wasn’t at mine. May have to hand back my degrees.
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