@hellmannsnotheinz it’s pretty disgraceful isn’t it? People are saying that this rhetoric will appeal to members of the Conservative party who are voting in the leadership contest, but I’m not even sure that’s true. I don’t think many people will really celebrate this attitude, if it was framed more in terms of fairness then it might appeal but many of these voters will still see themselves as fair people with Christian values- values which don’t traditionally include knowingly withholding resources from the most deprived in our society. Describing these areas as deprived specifically adds salt to the wound, because the term reminds us that resources are being withheld by someone from them, and that according to Sunak it’s the government actively withholding/depriving them.
I could be wrong about this of course but it’s almost as though Sunak believes them to be the worst “cartoon villain” version Tory voters, makes me wonder if he really understands his party, let alone his country.
Don’t get me started on the branding people who criticise Britain as extremists, I can’t see any of my conservative friends going for that, just the flip side of Woke cancellation surely? I feel like I’m his desperation to appease the right of the party he has revealed who he thinks they are- and he doesn’t think much of them.
Having said all that, it’s his party so probably he knows better than I do- but I know conservative voters and while I disagree with them on many things I think by and large they are decent people who want the same things as everyone further to the left but they just have a difference in opinion on how that will be achieved.