A new npb campaign against binaries

M Kettle sees hope for a different Tory Britain after the virus is defeated -- back to cultural politics as usual for the new petite bourgeoisie:

A brand built around Brexit and the anger of the left-behind is becoming much less relevant in the shadow of pandemic

The party which, only a few weeks ago, Johnson and Dominic Cummings were building on the basis of Brexit and the anger of the left-behind is becoming less relevant by the day in the shadow of coronavirus. ...The dissonance between the new realities and the recent past is now huge.

We were right all along - -why-oh-why didn't people listen to us? Thank god we can get back to normal politics and neglect the left-behind again.

[There will need to be] competing calculations of the balance of risk in the interaction between the economy and public health, as and when the pandemic wanes... That has to be one of the reasons why Keir Starmer is pressing the government to publish its strategy. He knows this will reveal faultlines and compromises that an opposition can exploit without appearing partisan or unpatriotic

Political advantage for the nice new K Starmerparty is wholly desirable. Calling out is back in business.

Future British politics will not shake down into a binary choice between the economy and public health.[welcome back, old binary] [But somehow at the same time] tensions [are] already appearing within Conservative ranks.[the BBC loves working those with K Wark et al asking nightly who is in charge]

Best of all

Politics will be more fragile, fearful and dynamic.[just like Kettle's worldview]. [However] As one former minister put it to me this week: “The party that was being created in the wake of the election was a new one. It was based on a cultural backlash against liberalism and established elites at home and abroad. But that doesn’t feel to me like what the country wants now. It doesn’t want divisive politics. It doesn’t want a culture war. [he wants the old culture wars?] This feels like a moment to step away from a lot of that.”

The link to culture war leads to the article by P Toynbee, discussed below in my blog for 7 April, advocating a nice [sic] combination of rational bureaucracy and differences in cultural capital as a solution to the dilemma of who should be treated. Npb back in a privileged position at last!