This spectacle shows how politics is degraded when power is wielded by a party that is no longer serious about government, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
‘The Tories don’t like a country that is shaped by 13 years of their rule but prefer not to take responsibility.’ Suella Braverman in Manchester on Tuesday.‘The Tories don’t like a country that is shaped by 13 years of their rule but prefer not to take responsibility.’ Suella Braverman in Manchester on Tuesday.
Thus wedded to avoidance of reality and armed with a plebiscitary mandate, hardline Eurosceptics construed politics as a battle between the faithful and the unbelievers; between the will of the people and a wicked plot to subvert it. An ill-conceived plan, having no foundation in reality, cannot satisfy grievances that populists mobilise to win elections. They dare not concede that critics of the plan were right, so instead they must vilify them as the obstruction to progress. Having defeated facts on the road to power, the revolution sustains itself on perpetual war against reality and its institutional redoubts in the pre-revolutionary establishment.
The merger with Faragism introduced a more profound faultline that the prime minister cannot straddle. It is the division between a concept of politics that aspires to deliver operable government and one that exists exclusively for protest. One addresses public anger, the other exploits it.
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