The rock and the hard place: Damned with the Tories and damned with Labour

Liberal democracy in the twenty-first century is indeed a choice. However, this choice is most unenviable.

It is not a radical, or even contrarian, statement to say that thirteen years of Tory government has yielded little in the way of conservation. I am not sure if a more damaging epoch has existed in modern British history than the 2010s and early 2020s. It has seen cataclysmic increase in unfettered immigration, cultural vandalism, degradation, stagnation and diminishing hope in the future.

Britain is broke and in debt, her people are poor and poorly paid, her Army is not fit for service. Her police do nothing to prevent crime, her justice system is weak, and her culture - once an envy of the world - is dead and decaying.

Our withdrawal from the European Union, which any Tory apparatchik will wave as a victory flag, has only resulted in more of the problems that led the forgotten corners of Britain to vote out in the first place.

Under Conservative rule, the prospect of home ownership has dwindled into a fever dream, made possible for many only by way of inheritance.

Though, perhaps the Tories’ most egregious act was to turn the other cheek in the face of a surge in anti-British vitriol. In no other time has Britain itself, as a nation and as a concept, been put in trial in this manner. In the space of a decade, Churchill, Drake and a myriad others have become figures of controversy and derision, because the ruling party allowed Britain and her achievements to become controversial and derisive. The British state and cultural establishment have become inverted, hell-bent against the British people.

It is for the reasons listed above that many fellow travellers of mine have begun to lick lips and salivate at the idea of a crushing electoral defeat for this party, and that they be banished into the political hinterlands, never to return. While this is a pleasing concept in the immediate, one must understand that this does not have a happy ending the morning after the next General Election. For this nation of ours is stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Labour is the rock. They are now, surely, destined to rule parliament next. Sir Keir Starmer will most likely be the next Prime Minister, and he is no better than any who passed through No 10 in the thirteen prior years.

What is perhaps most frustrating about the Conservative party is that they do what they do in spite of opposition from large swathes of their voter base, particularly in the so-called red wall. Labour does not have this problem.

Labour will do these things, not just because they want to, but because their voting base also wants them to. Britain will be attacked more and with more venom. It’s cultural, political, and military history will be scrubbed clean from the history books, and schools will do even more to create tomorrow’s iconoclast. It’ll be all-out war on innocence, because when not constrained by even some traditional thinking, a political party driven only by fervour will destroy all innocence that remains in place.

Liberal democracy in the twenty-first century is indeed a choice. However, this choice is most unenviable; for it is the choice between a rock and a hard place.