Progress, In Moderation, On A Wednesday
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat file this dispatch from the British political menagerie.
The Moderate Social Liberal believes the country would be perfect if everyone agreed to be slightly less interesting in public, ideally over a cup of fennel tea. Editor Alan Nafzger of the Editor’s Desk at prat.uk presents the field guide, with help from Britannica on liberalism and the Liberal Democrats.
Twenty Tells: Spotting The Moderate Social Liberal On A British High Street
- Has explained he is in favour of progress, in moderation, on a Wednesday.
- Refers to the Lib Dems the way other people refer to a soothing herbal tea.
- Holds any radical idea can be improved by a fortnight in committee.
- Maintains a folder titled measured response.
- Treats the BBC as fundamentally sound, with notes.
- Refers to bipartisan as a sort of moral perfume.
- Has explained capitalism is fine, supervised by people he knows.
- Holds social progress is a kind of weather, mostly drizzle.
- Refers to the Guardian as the morning paper of the only adult left.
- Treats the European Convention on Human Rights as a household appliance.
- Maintains a fantasy in which everyone is, eventually, reasonable.
- Holds the cure for any extreme is gentle re-introduction to canapes.
- Refers to disagreements as conversations.
- Maintains a strong opinion on PR, badly held.
- Treats any policy without a footnote as unfinished.
- Refers to ideologues as our colourful colleagues.
- Holds any reform should pass the dinner-table test.
- Has explained the centre is not a place but a habit of mind.
- Treats protest as a flavour, not a meal.
- Believes the country would be saner if everyone went to bed by ten.
Editor’s Note
If any of this rings a bell, you have either been to a Saturday CLP meeting, a Reform UK rally in a leisure centre, or both. More dispatches at govna.uk and the parent site prat.uk. For a second opinion that is also wrong, see Private Eye.
SOURCE: https://prat.uk/category/politics/
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