Nicola Sturgeon said to the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg yesterday that she detests the Tories and all that they stand for. I watched the interview. It seemed entirely appropriate to make the comment. In response I tweeted this comment first of all:
Then I added these two related comments:
I note Sturgeon also made clear that detesting the policy did not mean detesting the person who is a Tory, although it might sometimes be a struggle.
The Tories have gone ballistic as a result, saying this is dangerous, suggesting that saying you detest Tory policies might lead to a backlash against them when that is already happening and ignoring the fact that the whole of the modern Tory party is based on finding people to hate and then promoting it. Whether the person hated is an immigrant, or a trade unionist, or a member of the National Trust, the Tories are there to ensure that they are abused. That is what they are all about.
But was Sturgeon right to point this out, and was I? Of course we were: it is the duty of all decent people to point out the vile discrimination that the Tories are now promoting within our society to benefit a few at cost to all the rest of us. If the Tories don't like being detested there is an easy way for them to solve the problem: they should stop promoting hate.
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The biggest clue yet I would suggest testifying to the inherent fascism of the Tory party.
Fascists are always too quick to claim victimhood when people fight back. It’s a classic fascist response to any form of spirit in their victims. They don’t like it when you are not compliant.
In my opinion they are lucky to only having to deal with harsh words and not pitchforks and worse.
It is not only Covid and austerity but also their addiction to carbon that is in the process of killing us.
I’ve had it up to here with their necrotising, death dealing policies. So yes – why not make it unpleasant for them whilst they make an enemy of our future.
Agreed
If the Home Secretary saying she has a dream of sending poor people to Rwanda is not hate then what is it ?
In Scotland, the Conservatives use Hoyrood solely to promote a Unionist attack theme consisting of permanently angry, low-grade, self-righteous political bullies to sow division and reinforce faction in Scotland; while studiously insisting they cannot speak about the British Government, because their focus is Scotland, and Westminster has nothing to do with them.
At the same time they insist they represent the majority of the Scottish people – day in, day out – in spite of being rejected by the Scottish people in every general election since the 1950s, and never having been even close to winning a Holyrood election. In spite of insisting Westminster is not their focus, recently they have been tweeting that 700,000 Scots vote for them. That refers to the 2019 general election.
2,000,000 million Scots voters chose to vote for other parties in 2019; 1.24m (almost double the Conservative vote), for the SNP. The total Scottish elelctorate in 2019 was 4.05m. This means only 17% of the total Scottish electorate voted Conservative in 2019. Need I add – the Conservatives do NOT represent “the Scottish people”, any way you look at it
Agreed
“Dangerous language” moaned one of the numpties, ha ha ha , dangerously close to the truth more like.
Might an organisation whose policies have resulted in nearly a third of our children being chronically underfed and hungry choosing to play the snowflake-offended card be, in itself, detestable?
Yes
And of course no tory ever said anything similar about Corbyn, did they?
Grotesque aren’t they? The modern right in nauseating full on hypoctritical form. Or as PSR says, the first response of cowardly fascists; always accuse others of the very thing you are most guilty of.
They’d have been at home in Hitler’s regime. Or, come to think of it, in Putin’s.