When Theresa May told the Tory conference in 2002 that under Iain Duncan Smith the Conservatives had become “the Nasty party”, many members took that to mean they had become undesirable. Within a few years, David Cameron had moved the Tories closer to the “hug a husky” centre and by 2010 he was prime minister. Kemi Badenoch takes a rather different view.
For her, being the Nasty party is a badge of honour. People had had it far too good with austerity, Brexit, Covid and the Liz Truss mini-budget. The country needed a reality check; a return to old-fashioned unpleasantness.
A taste of genuine hardship. People had got far too used to getting something for nothing. Especially the physically and mentally ill.
What they needed was a short sharp shock of intense labour from 8am to 8pm. That would make them feel better. And anyone found skiving would be banged up for a short time in prison.
And take a bow, her cheerleader-in-chief. The man whose sycophancy consistently goes above and beyond the call of duty. We’re talking, of course, of the shadow home secretary, Chris Philp.
He had chosen to mark the beginning of Tory conference with an interview to the Sun in which he had identified himself as a one-man vigilante force. For the next four days, he had personally guaranteed that Birmingham would be a crime-free zone. The Philpster would be on guard night and day to arrest all shoplifters and to check up on people who hadn’t paid their TV licence.
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