A cloud hung over Manchester last weekend — because of the British weather but also because of the Conservative Party Conference. With Keir Starmer comfortably up in the opinion polls, and a country suffering amid inflation, crime and institutional dysfunction
Oct 3, 2023·edited Oct 3, 2023Liked by Ben Sixsmith
It's hard to be a British patriot....and by God I do try. We're decidedly low productivity. We can't make anything. We're hopeless at business management so all our home-grown blue chip businesses have been dismembered and flogged off. We can't build infrastructure. We can't catch criminals.....and ....and we can't even keep a Conservative Party conservative. https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/mrs-thatcher-and-the-good-life
I kind of got lost at the end. Was that a real conversation or was it just more 'James Cleverly and the cat' stuff? Hard to tell. If the former, I didn't understand it. If the latter, then I suppose I didn't really need to understand it. Anyway, I'm sure someone cleverer or more attentive than me appreciated it.
Oct 3, 2023·edited Oct 3, 2023Liked by Ben Sixsmith
In other words, the UK Conservatives are like the US Republican Establishment. You need a Matt Gaetz there... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxR2defmpUs Mind you, I oppose Gaetz's stand on Ukraine... The Democrats, like the Republican Establishment, have their leaders do their thinking for them.
It's hard to be a British patriot....and by God I do try. We're decidedly low productivity. We can't make anything. We're hopeless at business management so all our home-grown blue chip businesses have been dismembered and flogged off. We can't build infrastructure. We can't catch criminals.....and ....and we can't even keep a Conservative Party conservative. https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/mrs-thatcher-and-the-good-life
I kind of got lost at the end. Was that a real conversation or was it just more 'James Cleverly and the cat' stuff? Hard to tell. If the former, I didn't understand it. If the latter, then I suppose I didn't really need to understand it. Anyway, I'm sure someone cleverer or more attentive than me appreciated it.
In other words, the UK Conservatives are like the US Republican Establishment. You need a Matt Gaetz there... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxR2defmpUs Mind you, I oppose Gaetz's stand on Ukraine... The Democrats, like the Republican Establishment, have their leaders do their thinking for them.