The Conservatives are not only struggling to agree on a Brexit vision for the future, they are losing their grip on the past. John Major tried in vain to jog memories on Wednesday, warning that the government’s disregard for economic and diplomatic reality had set the country on a trajectory towards calamity. To identify the danger was not “Project Fear”, he said, but “Project Know-Your-History”.
For this, the former prime minister was denounced by Tory MPs as an embittered hypocrite, propagandist and traitor. Politicians are not obliged to like their former leaders, but Conservatives might at least be expected to muster respect for the experience of previous generations. That is what conservatism is for.
But a scorched-earth ethos has captured the party. On the forced march from reality nothing of pro-European Conservative culture can be left standing. This is the spirit in which some Brexiters have taken to trashing the Good Friday agreement.
Source : theguardian
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