When future #historians look back at the period 2010-2024, how will they balance in their analysis the following factors, when analysing the policies & actions of the successive #Tory administrations of this period?
a. incompetence
b. ignorance (stupidity)
c. corruption
d. strategy (to include enrichment of particular groups)
c. & d. many well be linked but one can also see political scenarios where d. is the result of ideology not corruption.
(This work has, of course, already started!)
@ChrisMayLA6
I would say the intertwined c & d will be the vast majority of issue.
I would replace b with "misinformed". Tories seem to have a remarkably sheltered and misinformed view of the world and its drivers (because of c & d). Centrists and compromisers have been driven from the party, so we are left with people who do not use facts and are driven by ideology.
I give incompetence a mere 1%. The incompetent are there by strategy. Tories are very competent in what they want.
'Tories are very competent in what they want'! - very well put!
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
TC Won't Give In To Lies