Tories pose as progressives as they lurch to the moral. But posturing can’t mask peoples own experienceWhere once Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson were the sultans of spin,David Cameron and George Osborne have now seized their crowns. At the Conservative conference in Manchester – a city that boasts not a single Tory MP or councillor – the prime minister and chancellor spun themselves into the political stratosphere.
This is a world of positioning and posturing unbound. Liberated from the Liberal Democrats, the Tories have reinvented themselves as “progressives and champions of working people”, and crusaders for “social justice” against the “scourge of poverty”. In their most surreal flights of fancy,they even boast of being what until final month no Labour leader for a generation would have dreamed of claiming to be: the “workers’ party”. Their media retinue are dazzled by the cleverness of it all. Imagine, posing as your opponents, or who could have ever imagined such a thing?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com