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The National Conservatives had a rally in London this week. I wanted to write something, but the Guardian summary will suffice.
It's barely disguised now.
From the fine article:
Perhaps the speech most reported on was by the Tory backbencher Miriam Cates, who part-channelled Viktor Orbán and Giorgia Meloni in describing low birthrates as an existential crisis for the west. The populist leaders of Hungary and Italy are explicit in wanting more domestic-born children as against immigrants, a point Cates did not make, although it was arguably implicit. More striking still was her argument that the lack of babies was down to “cultural Marxism that is systematically destroying our children’s souls”.
This was also the conference where Jacob Rees-Mogg (a member of the current UK government) spoke and admitted that recent changes to electoral law in England and Wales were an attempt at gerrymandering, to disenfranchise people who might vote for parties other than his, but that it had backfired. The Conservatives appear to have disenfranchised many of their own voters.
It's in plain sight now. These are National Conservatives, the NatCs.
There is not much more to be said.
Update: Judging by the discourse below, there certainly is more to be said. Once again I will not say it myself. Instead I'll post a link to SNP MP Mhairi Black's f-word speech given to Parliament last year.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 19, @05:49PM (4 children)
Which is rather the point: http://nitter.net/KonstantinKisin/status/1659148727280345088 [nitter.net]
https://youtube.com/watch?v=bUwEQYB9s9A [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by turgid on Saturday May 20, @08:33AM (3 children)
It that a load of Alt-Wrong stuff? Should I click on it?
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 20, @09:07AM (2 children)
I checked it using a url scanner. Don't waste your time. It is a Twitter thread by Konstantin Kisin about the convention. After his introduction, he almost immediately makes multiple statements that that are factually incorrect and easily verified as such. It then goes downhill from there as he starts his "analysis." Basically it is the standard right-wing complaints that the wrong kind of immigration, the lack of "babies," and lack of religion are the cause of Britain's ills. Sure he tries to paint it with different colors but that is his underlying argument while throwing mud everywhere all the while.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Saturday May 20, @09:15AM (1 child)
Thanks very much. I need to get a URL scanner.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 20, @10:05PM
My preferred one is URLScan.io for general usage. There are others out there for more specific usage but it is probably the current best free one for general usage. For that nitter URL, I loaded it into the scanner, browsed the domain tree, and then went to the "content" tab to look at the "text content" section, which extracts the text content from the page. There are other things you can do to analyze the risk of going to a URL. However, there are some URLs that are on their blacklist and you have to use a different scanner for those. By way of example, I used VirusTotal to extract the title of that YouTube video (Konstantin Kisin: "Don't Be a Useful Idiot" - Lessons from the Soviet Union - YouTube) to decide it was more of the inane same.