Fakestream and even GB News commenters habitually refer to the Conservative Party as ‘right wing’ and talk about ‘uniting the right’. Farage says they are not right and only Reform can be described as ‘on the right of centre’.
Who’s correct? This list may help to make up your mind. These are the unconservative, mostly left-liberal things Tories have done in the last 14 years:
- Passing through parliament the Equalities Act left behind by Harriet Harman
- Sugar tax
- Appointment of Green ideologue Tony Juniper to head Natural England
- Minimum wage
- Failure to repeal Climate Change Act
- Total failure to enforce equality before the law, so we now have special protected groups with two-tier rights + sharia courts
- #John Bercow, Oliver Letwin, Sarah Wollaston, Dominic Grieve, Phillip Lee, Philip Hammond, David Cameron, George Osborne, Johnny Mercer, James Brokenshire, Amber Rudd, Sam Gyimah. Enough said.
- Highest tax burden for decades
- Abolishing ‘no-fault evictions’.
- Appointing leftie trades unionist Frances O’Grady to the Board of Bank of England
- Planning a digital service tax
- More subsidisation of childcare
- CO2 price floor
- Gender pay gap reporting
- Appointing leftie economist to do minimum wage review
- Plain packaging law
- Effectively banning fixed odds betting terminals
- Tobacco display ban
- Creating Public Health England, a grotesque Nanny State quango run by leftist public health sociologists
- EU defence co-operation
- Rebranding living within your means as ‘austerity’ – a gift to opponents and making it harder for real conservatives to cut spending
- 900 Met officers to monitor hurty words on Twitter – start of clampdown on free speech
- Reducing lifetime pensions allowance to £1million
- Refusing asylum to Asia Bibi, the Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy in Pakistan
- Making it easier for the left to characterise any conservative policy as ‘hard right’ or ‘farrrr right’
- Forcing parents to subject their school children to LGBTQXYZ indoctrination in state schools
- Abolishing prison sentences under six months because, apparently, short sentences ‘harm not heal’
- 2017 set up Lammy Review into ‘Discrimination and Bias in Policing and Justice System’ with the ultimate aim of reducing the proportion of BAME offenders in the criminal justice; which is the basis for the current Sentencing Counsel Quango’s two-tier anti-white sentencing guidance
- Plastic bag tax
- Continuing to fund left-wing, nanny state pressure groups and quangos
- Failing to repeal all the constitutional wrecking of Tony Blair, politicising all institutions
- Banning from UK (very mildly) controversial speakers such as Lauren Southern, Geert Wilders
- Anything in the child obesity strategy
- Enabling men to identify as women and vice versa on their say-so, no doctor’s note. Change birth and passport at a whim
- Allowing Alison Saunders, disgraced former director of CPS, to pursue a rape ‘believe the victim’ policy resulting in scores of unsafe convictions of men
- Banning the shooting of magpies and other pests
- Banning gas fired boilers in new homes from 2025
- Cosying up to St Greta the Green Goblin, who gets her climate facts from Ice Age 2, probably
- Throwing real conservative Sir Roger Scruton under a bus
- ‘Our’ NHS, a state-run monopoly with fairly awful health outcomes is, apparently, beyond criticism or redemption
- Cameron humiliating begging tour of EU to no result
- Project Fear 01
- Making Theresa May their leader after losing the Brexit Referendum
- Brought in DEI
- Brought in same-sex marriage, redefining the sacrament of marriage
- 2018 porn laws
- Huawei 5G
- Policemen will need degrees
- Increase in dividend taxation
- IR35 debacle
- HS2 white elephant
- Hinckley Point white elephant
- May Hate Speech laws leading to suppression of free speech and cancelling for questioning goverment narrative
- Air passenger duty and other punitive Green taxes
- Nut Zero enshrined in law, deindustrialising Britain, increasing poverty
- Johnson: bungling of Brexit, NI left in EU, no return of fishing grounds etc
- Potential break-up of UK over N Ireland
- Iniquity of freedom crushing response to Covid, lockdowns crashing the economy leading to ‘ cost of lockdown crisis’
- Letting immigration RIP
- Brought in Online Harms Bill, another hammer blow to free speech
- Initial negotiations to agree to WHO Pandemic Treaty/Accord
- Promised to deal with ‘debanking’, but did diddly squat.
Conservative things done: Er . . . can’t think of anything.
It’s no wonder every time Badenoch attacks Starmer, he can say: ‘But you did the same and approved it.’
Tony Woodcock
Bournemouth
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