Anti-Churchillian sentiment in the Conservative Party exists, but what is its opposite form? It’s a sense of things needing to be put right.
Is there nothing wrong at our southern coastline? Is the footage real or fake? It’s not “fake news” that counts here but a mentality that doesn’t accept facts as they are.
The facts are used by politicians and we deal in our feelings, surely?
The feeling the Left has a monopoly over speaking leaves conservatives to feel it’s only Parliament that’s left to solve problems. It’s a false feeling, of course.
The fact is only Parliament leading to government can solve a problem that is in its remit. The fact is also leftist groups oppose the normal functioning of a government. They are sometimes vociferous about it.
Those on the Conservative right feel a need to challenge such a shift in emotion as unrepresentative and a distraction from a real work of a democratic state.
These are the tugs of war – tussles in the halls of power – we see today. It plays out in neighbourhoods and it shows itself in public squares. It’s a challenge and a need for representation that’s felt.
The notion of having a Churchillian response is for a Tory government to juggle. It’s not a remedy but it’s a patch on an issue at times. The fact of a Labour government makes life more difficult for us.
It’s time to leave feeling behind and rely on our understanding, or we’ll get left behind.
