Half the reason the conservatives got so badly pantsed in the last UK election is that people wanted conservative policies and instead got the same blairite postmodern neoliberal consensus (neoliberal is another one of those words that basically means the opposite of what it claims to mean). Reform UK only came to exist as a party in 2018, and despite that got 14% of the popular vote in the previous election (compared to the majority party Labour, which got 34%) because people wanted a conservative conservative party.
The same is happening in a lot of Europe though not in quite the same way. There's a lot of elections people never would have expected to go a certain way 10 years ago, such as the rise of Marine La Pen in France, AfD in Germany, or Giorgia Meloni's party in Italy. Outside of Europe, we're seeing more like this -- Trump is facing a second term, Milei won in Argentina, and in my home of Soviet Canuckistan the 'far right' Peoples Party of Canada got 5% of the vote in the last election, which was part of the catalyst for the new leader of the conservatives Pierre Poilievre, whose revitalized party is on track to win a massive majority in the next election.
A lot of what is being "conserved" by many of these conservatives is classical liberalism -- they're promising to push back against the left wing parties overreach in areas such as censorship and overwhelming government spending and regulation, but there's also pushback against a lot of the consensus liberal ideas -- why exactly does a little island like the UK have to take on all the world's problems when Bill from da norf is struggling?
The same is happening in a lot of Europe though not in quite the same way. There's a lot of elections people never would have expected to go a certain way 10 years ago, such as the rise of Marine La Pen in France, AfD in Germany, or Giorgia Meloni's party in Italy. Outside of Europe, we're seeing more like this -- Trump is facing a second term, Milei won in Argentina, and in my home of Soviet Canuckistan the 'far right' Peoples Party of Canada got 5% of the vote in the last election, which was part of the catalyst for the new leader of the conservatives Pierre Poilievre, whose revitalized party is on track to win a massive majority in the next election.
A lot of what is being "conserved" by many of these conservatives is classical liberalism -- they're promising to push back against the left wing parties overreach in areas such as censorship and overwhelming government spending and regulation, but there's also pushback against a lot of the consensus liberal ideas -- why exactly does a little island like the UK have to take on all the world's problems when Bill from da norf is struggling?
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