Erik Kain recently interviewed yours truly about the curious name of my blog and the political tradition (or at least tendency) behind it.
Talking Tory Anarchism
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Erik Kain recently interviewed yours truly about the curious name of my blog and the political tradition (or at least tendency) behind it.
Hatred of the State is an extreme Liberal, and not in any sense a Tory, position. Over here, it has issued in the antipolitics of the parliamentary expenses “scandal”: not a penny was ever paid out either for the infamous moat or for the infamous duck house, none of this had anything to do with policy, and so on. And it has more lately issued in flagrant contempt of Parliament, technically so called, with journalists impersonating constituents in order to record Ministers without their knowledge. Yet the newspaper in question in both of those cases would regard itself as the voice of Toryism. It no longer is. Any more than the Conservative Party, as such, ever has been.
Rather, that party, as an organization, is and has always been a device for ensuring that Tories in the country must vote, or at least feel that they must vote, for candidates who are really Liberal Unionists, Liberal Imperialists, National Liberals, Alfred Roberts’s daughter and her devotees, those around the Institute of Economic Affairs, followers of David Owen (one of whom was still sitting as a Conservative MP until his retirement in 2010), and now Liberal Democrats, since it is, frankly, inconceivable that Conservative candidates will be run against sitting MPs seeking reelection after five years as Ministers in a peacetime Government led by the Leader of the Conservative Party.
Anarchist? Certainly, in the sense of opposing the State action that is screamingly necessary in order to rescue our civilization both economically and in the moral, social and cultural sphere. But Tory? In that case, not in the least. Quite the reverse, in fact.