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Liz's book...

Well colour me pink, but I have to say that Liz is certainly original in adopting wholesale US republican party ideology as something that is missing in the United Kingdom.  Let's be clear to play the offended virgin when the Tories have been wheeling the stick for the better part of the last 12 years, is a bit rich.

Granted Liz's vision of conservativism is far far to the right.  She was always attractive to the lunatic fringe and did well, even got nominated as Prime Minister until the MP realized that she was a little nuts.  But, to this day, she remains popular with the grassroots.  Her favourite constituents are those who both complain about passport controls when they go to the continent and yet are firm supporters of shutting our borders.   The rest was a blueprint from an American born-again Christian right who seems to be unable to understand anything in the bible...granted that is not really how it works here but in Liz's febrile mind it is the blueprint she chooses to follow.

I guess that she is setting the stage for her comeback after the current prime minister finds greener pastures.  She and Boris are certain to seek that job all over again.   

As a matter of cultural anthropology, Liz's book is mildly interesting, considering that the vast majority of its social markers fall well outside the norms of ordinary Tories, and really play in the patch that was long inhabited by Marry Whitehouse and Katy Hopkins.   Aside from that it is a "copy-paste" of the US Republican Party's more loonie positions.   She even used the term RINO, which is really not part of the British lexicon.   

My advice, there are certainly more interesting things to do than read that book, may I suggest watching paint dry?

Note:   If you are curious, the book was a gift, from friend, who got it from Liz directly...

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