An Utter Cretin

Thank god Mr. Davies has decided to nail his colours to the mast after only two decades as a member of the Conservative party. He’s now worked out he’s not a Tory after all, he’s a Labour man. It’s organized collectivized central planning all the way for him. Though hang on, Labour don’t do collectivized central planning now do they. This is because the ‘Right’ in British politics, and pretty much across Europe, won all the intellectual arguments of the Twentieth century. Labour moved right-wards in the mid-90’s was because Blair and Brown were astute enough to recognise this was the central reason Labour had not been in power for 18 years. One can only deduct that he is moving for no other reason than personal ambition realizing that he has stagnated in his political career with the Tory party. That moment of lime-light, so desperately needed by some men, was far more enticing to Quentin Davies than the honest principles needed from our politicians. His shift to Labour rests on the back of the battles fought and won by his own side.  

I write this as an undergraduate student. Most intelligent young people who follow politics and belong to political parties have spent a long time seriously and objectively asking themselves questions about why they have chosen the party they have. They do this to ensure that their own personal beliefs, admittedly always influenced by factors beyond ones control, chime with those of their chosen party. I don’t have a desperate dislike of Labour students; I just think there are profoundly wrong and misguided. Naïve perhaps. The thing is, why has it taken Davies at least twenty bloody years to work this out? One thinks of the wasted hours spent by party workers over the past decades campaigning for a man who has grasped at some Faustian pact for nothing more than a foot-note in political history.