Ideological Convergence

Another Conservative has tried for the mantle of Winston Churchill by comparing socialists to Nazis. Britain's official greatest son famously ordered the plebs to vote for himself on the grounds that a Labour government would set up a Gestapo; the European parliamentary expenses claimant Syed Kamall blathered that Nazism was a left-wing ideology, apparently on the grounds that Nazi is short for National Socialist. Given the Nazis' notorious reverence for truth and their nearly right-wing prejudice against jumping into bed with capitalists, the point might seem hardly worth arguing; but some uncharitable Euro-wogs made a lot of noise and Kamall was forced to give out the usual non-apology for "offence caused" to snowflake lefty sensibilities. Doubtless wishing for a poppy to fondle, he also proclaimed his respect for anyone who opposes extremists, with the unspoken but obvious exception of that nice Viktor Orbán, whose antisemitism Kamall and his colleagues happily endorsed in a vote last month.