#red tory

[generalelectionmusings]

[sodomyaspraxis]

“We can move beyond the forms of the bourgeois family, and forge a socialism built upon the body, upon the love of human for human, forgetting our fetishization of sameness or difference! We can float away from our identity on a psychotropic wave of polymorphous perversity! A sexual class unto our own, all humans, working to negate themselves as individuals through the communistic act of orgasm! Forget the proletariat — the future belongs to the holetariat!”

-Huw Lemmey, Red Tory: My Corbyn Chemsex Hell (2019)

[twitterexile]

The Labour MPs giving up on Starmer

The government benches in the Commons are packed with ambitious young people who think their careers are hitting a dead end

MPs who once harboured ministerial ambitions are going off the idea, having seen the unpopular decisions their colleagues are being sent out to defend. If a junior ministerial post is the reward for loyalty, one mused: “What’s the second prize?”

[mystuffgoeshere]

George Osborne literally endorsed Keir Starmer.

Don’t expect us to “rally around him”.

[jmj-2014]

Clive Wilmer on Ruskin: This Toryism, comparable to that of Swift and Johnson and Coleridge, is based on a belief in hierarchy, established order and obedience to inherited authority. He detested b…

[motsperdus]

strange comments that betray a lack of understanding about the lives of ordinary people

https://flipchartfairytales.wordpress.com/2017/05/15/the-red-tory-moment/

The FT reports that some Tories are worried about a shift away from free market ideology as Theresa May promises more interventionist policies, such as a cap on energy prices, a crackdown on companies who underfund pension schemes, investment in new council houses and the “greatest extension of rights and protections for employees by any Conservative government in history”. This new direction is known as the Erdington Modernisation. Led by the prime minister’s adviser Nick Timothy, it sets out to target working class voters. It is designed to appeal to people in areas like Erdington, where Mr Timothy grew up: ...

He has some harsh words for what he calls the snobs and libertarians in his own party: “We all know the kind. They reveal themselves through minor acts of snobbery, strange comments that betray a lack of understanding about the lives of ordinary people, or when they are councillors or Members of Parliament by the policy positions they take. I remember one MP who, as a member of the Shadow Cabinet, once said: “school reform is all very well but we must protect the great public schools, because we need to look after our own people.” Quite how many of the millions of core Tory voters he thought had attended public schools was never explained.

[el-partido-naranjo]

Apparently, Phillip is the only person who calls himself Red Tory...but whatever, interesting letter correspondence.

[el-partido-naranjo]

Links to other essays. I’m wanting to read Lord Glasman and Philip Blond.

Or one of these damn essays do, just look up Blond and Glasman