The force that once thought itself the natural party of government has become a cult of bitterness and denial, says Guardian columnist John Harris
about money, power and entitlement, but Wei’s message was that his comrades ought to buck up. “It really feels like many in the party have already begun to throw in the towel,” he wrote. “Which is unfortunate because the country actually needs us to take action, innovate and solve problems.” Predictably enough, one of the issues he chose to explore was that of “out-of-control wokery in tertiary education” – which, he said, might be tackled using truly ingenious methods.
The key was to link the repayment of student debt to how graduates fared in a special test, in which they would “achieve the highest scores for tolerance of other viewpoints, lateral thinking, and critical thinking”. For those who got top marks, there would be debt “forgiveness” – while defenders of no-platforming and toppling statues would presumably have to pay for their education through the nose. It did not seem to have occurred to Wei that people might just lie and take the money.
This may look like the kind of nonsense wearily scrawled on to a flip-chart at the end of a Tory awayday, but it chimes with no end of stuff that is now swirling around Conservatism, and has been for some time. An idea’s ludicrousness, moreover, is now no barrier to its conversion into actual policy.
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