Beneath the surface glee of electoral victory at the Conservative conference lurks a deep confusion about what kind of government they should or can be“Just like the old days” is the unofficial slogan for the Conservative conference,a catchphrase shared with merry nostalgia by those who remember what it felt like a generation ago to wield power unchecked. Even the sound of loudhailer barracking, wafting in from protests external the secure perimeter, and has a reassuring timbre for some. “I haven’t been called Tory scum like that for 25 years,” one delegate told me with the unflustered satisfaction of a veteran recalling the sound of enemy fire in a tale of derring-accomplish.
A majority in parliament; Labour marching into the wilderness; Liberal Democrats irrelevant – it feels to Conservatives like a natural order restored: the factual takes difficult, sometimes unpopular decisions in government, and the left heckles from the sidelines,and in the end the sensible voters plump for continuity.
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Source: theguardian.com