Conservative parties in the political arena are supposed to conserve stuff. They are supposed to be favourable to the idea of conserving and preserving the nation and its culture and values. In the United Kingdom the Conservative Party is assumed by many voters to be the party of choice for those who want to conserve the union of the home nations, the culture of Britain and protect hard fought for values such as freedom of speech.
But, the recent expulsion of Conservative Party members for what appear to be quite mild expressions of disgust at the antics and philosophy of the woefully misnamed ‘religion of peace’, has shown us quite clearly that the current Tory party leadership cannot be arsed to protect such values as freedom of speech. I’ve looked around at some of the quoted comments made or allegedly made by the fourteen members expelled and I can find nothing there that could genuinely be described as objectionable by being immediate and credible threats of violence. Most normal thinking people would draw the line at anybody inciting credible and immediate violence, but from what I can gather few of the comments, if any would come into that category.
Most of the comments seem to be expressions of disgust at an ideology (yes Islam is an ideology not a race) that aggressively stomps its way through our national society like the bully that this ideology is. Probably the worst comment I have seen, one that was quoted by the Politics Home website, is that Muslims should be ‘thrown off bridges’. Although nasty such a comment is unlikely to inspire Tories to go and carry out such a crime. Other of the alleged comments quoted by Politics Home by a commentator on the Guido site and the Kent Online site seemed to comprise of people not wanting a Muslim Prime Minister, wanting all mosques closed and stating that the human rights activist Tommy Robinson has been unfairly treated. If Politics Home can only point to the relatively minor comment about ‘throwing Muslims off bridges’ as an example of the worst of the comments then it becomes obvious that the Tory party is anxious to stop its members mentioning the ‘M’ word in anything other than a positive way.
These comments, or as I will refer to them as alleged comments as I have not seen the originals, have been called by the Conservative Party as ‘Islamophobic’ and ‘racist’ ones. This statement by the Tories is complete and utter bullshit. Firstly this is because Islam is plainly not a race, you can have black, white, brown and yellow skinned people who adhere to Islam. At the end of the day, if you can easily convert to it, and Islam is incredibly easy to convert to, then it is not a race. The second reason why the statement by Tory party management is bullshit is that the use of the word ‘phobia’ implies an irrational fear of something. It is quite reasonable to refer to a fear of social interaction or of enclosed spaces or heights as phobias, because they are often irrational and based on irrational fears. Dislike of Islam on the other hand comes from a very rational place indeed. It is entirely rational to fear a religion that preaches hatred for the faiths held by others, which forces its mores on those outside its religion and into the public sphere and it is definitely not irrational to fear a religion that seems to distinguish itself by its ever growing body count and the crimes of its followers. Disliking Islam because of its record for aggression, violence, hatred for others and oppression of women should not be treated as a crime or a reason for expulsion from the Tory party, but as common sense.
There is a major difference between what these Tory members said about Islam and what scores upon scores of Labour party members say about Jews and Israel. The expelled Tory members are merely expressing dislike of an increasingly dangerous and disruptive ideology, one not wanted by a significant number of Britons, one third, who believe that Islam threatens the way of life enjoyed by Britons. The Jew hatred in the Labour Party on the other hand is of a very different character. Firstly these Labourites are not going after a dangerous ideology, which Islam has proven itself to be, they are instead going after an ideology that genuinely does preach peace. This ‘peace please’ current is so much to the fore in Judaism that in some Liberal synagogues members agonise on whether on the festival of Purim to read the entirety of the Book of Esther, the final part of which shows the Jews fighting back, quite brutally it seems to modern eyes, against the killers unleashed by chief minister Haman. Secondly, many of the groups that the far left of Labour support, do not content themselves with just saying nasty things about Jews, some have actually be shown to either have killed Jews. These expelled Tories have just said some pungent things about Islam, the far greater number of Labour Jew haters have actively promoted the interest of genocidal and extremely violent Islamic groups. Who would you say was the most morally debased here? I would say that it is the Labourites who call killers ‘friends’ who are the morally debased ones. If Labourites have the right to speak freely, even when they are speaking complete bollocks, then so must members of the Conservative Party, even if their words ruffle the feathers of the Mohammedans.
Britain used to be able to rely, to a certain extent, on the Tories being the party of freedom of speech. Even Anthony Eden in the Conservative Manifesto of 1955 spoke of the restoration of the British liberties that had been curtailed during World War II and by implication a return to freedom from political censorship. Eden even promoted the idea that it was time for an independent television service to counter the effects of the BBC. It’s hard to even conceive of a Tory leader or manifesto today that would support even the relatively minor encouragement of freedom of speech that Eden’s manifesto outlined. Today’s Tory party is no different in its enthusiasm for censorship and of pandering to the ideology of Islam than the Labour Party has become.
The utter and complete hostility shown to issues of freedom of speech, along with a willingness by the party to listen to various ‘Islamophobia’ snake oil salesmen, renders the Tories very similar to the Labour Party in this area. This, I believe, is politically dangerous. We now have a situation where both major parties have a line in the sand when it comes to criticism, even legitimate criticism of Islam. By doing this they are failing to represent the 1/3rd of people who are quite rightly unhappy with the problems that Islam has brought to the UK and is the sort of policy that is more fitted to a one party state banana republic. If I was a Tory manager I would start to worry. This is because actions like these are much more likely to cause solid Tory supporters who favour free speech and who are justifiably concerned about Islam, to switch to other parties, some of which may be genuinely extremist, that allow them to voice concerns about everything, including Islam. If the Tory Party wants to lose votes at a time when they most sorely need them to counter the lunatics of Labour, then they are going the right way about it by silencing those who did not incite credible and immediate violence, but merely, although I would admit in a pungent way, said what many other Britons think about the ideology of Islam. The leadership of the Tory party seems to have thrown the party’s Islamosceptics under the bus possibly in order to pander to potential Muslim votes. It is a disgusting thing to see Tories siding with sharia censors like this and I predict that little good will come of the party’s actions in this and other similar cases. The Tory party are no longer a conservative party as they are failing to protect or conserve a basic British value, the principle of freedom of speech.
Links and Addenda
Guido Fawkes
https://order-order.com/2019/03/05/conservatives-hardline-email-14-suspended-members/#disqus_thread
The writer of this Guido piece seems a rather too enthusiastic for my liking about these suspensions. However some of the below the line commenters have other opinions. One of Guido’s commenters said:
Westminster Bubble • 15 hours ago
One of them said he didn’t want a ROP member as PM, I don’t either. Keep religion away from politics
When you look at the history and actions of the ROP and some of its followers such an opinion that we should not have a Roper PM does look eminently reasonable.
Politics Home
We can more than likely deduce from this Politics Home piece that at least part of the motivation from these bans may have come from various Islamophobia scaremongers. These are namely a combination of the perpetually whining Baroness Warsi, a one trick pony whose only ‘talent’ is to bitch about Islam and ‘Islamophobia’ snake oil salesman Fiyaz Mughal the founder of the ‘Islamophobia’ monitoring outfit Tell Mama. Baroness Warsi has been consistently pushing the line that ‘the Tories are not Islam friendly – waaaah!’ and Fiyaz Mughal has had meetings with senior Tories to whine about ‘Islamophobia’ among the Tory rank and file. Mughal’s suggestion for dealing with Conservative Party ‘Islamophobia’ is particularly chilling and authoritarian. His suggestion is that local Tory associations act as anti‘Islamophobia’ enforcers at the constituency party level.
Kent Online
The Tories have also suspended a council leader merely for stating that Tommy Robinson has been badly treated, which no matter what opinion you may hold about Mr Robinson’s politics, seems to have been the case.
The councillor was previously criticised by Leftists and pro Islam virtue signallers in the Tories and elsewhere for calling the silencing of Mr Robinson ‘a disgraceful injustice’.
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/council-leader-defends-tommy-robinson-retweet-199824/
As of 11pm this March 6, the second headline on the BBC’s front page is ‘Father jailed for acid attack on son, 3; (quelle surprise) the father is ‘originally from Afghanistan’, a second conspirator, Jabar Paktia, is another Afghan, while a third, Saied Hussini, ‘affirmed … on the Koran’. The other three are Slovaks (but don’t look especially Slovakian); a fourth, a Czech, was found Not Guilty—‘pussy pass’, IMO.
So, not really too impressed with this “”””islamophobia”””” cack, atm.
As Robert Dabney wrote over a century ago:
(Dabney, Robert L. Discussions. Vol. 4. Crescent Book House, 1897. 496.)
‘Conservatism’, both as Western political movement and British political party—has failed—there is no longer anything left to conserve. But our Conservatives not only failed to conserve, they increasingly seem to be our active enemies, leading the Progressive charge on LGBT matters; and behaving like the puppet government of a victorious Taliban or IRA with their hounding ex-soldiers in their 70s decades after the incidents in question (while undertaking not to prosecute terrorists), and crucifying our soldiers after service in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The ‘democratically elected’ Political Classes across the West are far more out of touch with, and care less about, the Common Man than any of the old aristocrats.
Forget conservatism: start discussing ‘restoration’.