Coke of Another Colour

In keeping with the Conservative idea of a modernising agenda, the jabbering homunculus Michael Gove is giving consideration to a new coal mine: an idea supported by several expenses claimants whose knowledge of the sainted Thatcher's attitude to the industry is perhaps not extensive. The old bag regarded miners with much the degree of favour that the present party reserves for teachers, NHS workers, railway staff, public transport operators, woke environmentalists, lefty businesspersons, rah-rah-denying historians, fellow Conservatives and wogs. Thus the resurrection of coal mining at a time when Global Britain is ordering the lesser breeds to leave fossil fuels alone is not only a blatant instance of crypto-socialist Heathite deviationism: it comes dangerously close to hypocrisy for its own sake, rather than for the sake of the Party and its donors. Hence several persons and Alok Sharma are protesting against the idea, and thereby veering dangerously close to the present planet. After Brexit, the culture war and twelve years of poor-bashing and cripple-kicking, there can't be many who would accuse today's Conservative Party of sacrificing ideology to mere pragmatism; yet occasionally, by the law of averages if nothing else, a random squeal from one of the factions may, to the charitable ear, resemble something approaching an engagement with vulgar reality.