Twisted Values

Daveybloke, the Cuddly Conservative, has renewed his pledge to do away with Punch and Judy politics. Faced with the Glorious Successor's moralising, finger-wagging, it's-all-your-own-fault attitude to the public, Daveybloke has done what he generally does on matters of importance - war, privatisation and the like - and agreed wholeheartedly with New New Labour. Our society, which imposes exams on children, throws the mentally ill into prison and deports asylum seekers back to Iraq and Darfur, has "been far too sensitive. In order to avoid injury to people's feelings, to avoid appearing judgmental, we have failed to say what needs to be said"; for example, that those "at risk of poverty, or social exclusion" should get on their bikes and look for a job. Daveybloke deplored the "decades-long erosion of responsibility, of social virtue, of self-discipline, respect for others, of deferring gratification instead of instant gratification"; apparently it's all the fault of fat people and the poor. Daveybloke would like a "mandate to call time on the twisted values that have eaten away at our social fabric" and, presumably, get back to British values for British people. Society "should not be afraid to say what was right and what wrong", unless what is wrong should happen to be something like war, privatisation, cooking the planet for profit, deportation of asylum seekers, keeping the Westminster gravy train going, or one of the other things on which Daveybloke and the Glorious Successor happen to be in principled agreement.