We’re all in on the culture war now

  • h3doublehockeysticks [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    It is endlessly frustrating to see the tories have any kind of traction with a narrative of opposing an oppressive or overreaching government direction. They ARE the government, they HAVE BEEN the government since 2010, and before the Blair years they were the government since 1979

    • octochamp@lemmy.ml
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      this is the most important comment in this whole thread. Sunak – who absorbed the party leadership role as the “continuity candidate” – is trying to pitch his own party as the radical opposition when they’ve been running the country for 30 of the 43 years he’s been alive, and have been more or less electorally unopposed for the entirety of his political career. the amount of unironic opportunitistic populist bullshit he’s got blowing his sails along would be funny if it wasn’t so viscerally horrible