tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21724748.post8623929724331756367..comments2023-09-26T15:14:50.352+01:00Comments on Conservative Party Reptile: GotterdammerungTim Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03705980028580424584noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21724748.post-81095611857110926352016-12-05T09:56:31.087+00:002016-12-05T09:56:31.087+00:00Well, not wanting to boast and despite having the ...Well, not wanting to boast and despite having the same background and circumstances as you, I did manage to win quite handy sums of money on both the Brexit vote and the election of Trump. To me, both results seemed utterly obvious if .....if..... you ignored the witterings of the punditocracy, who distinguish themselves by talking only to each other and those like them in London. The only exception was John Harris in the Guardian, of whom I am not usually a fan, who actually headed out into the boondocks and had his metropolitan sympathies rattled.<br /><br />If you thought 'shy Tories' was a thing, imagine how shy Trumpers were: nothing to be gained by admitting it and an awful lot to be lost.<br /><br />In any case, my belief is that we have reached the end of the century of ideology. The end of the Cold War and the loss of communism as a credible opponent has hollowed out what ideological structure might have existed in the West. We are now back to the old, traditional, political motivations: nation, religion, culture and tradition.Recusanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11446741817585462393noreply@blogger.com