{"id":164802,"date":"2020-10-16T15:55:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T13:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/10\/16\/what-exactly-are-the-conservatives-conserving-its-certainly-not-the-union-marina-hyde\/"},"modified":"2020-10-16T15:55:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T13:55:24","slug":"what-exactly-are-the-conservatives-conserving-its-certainly-not-the-union-marina-hyde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=164802","title":{"rendered":"What exactly are the Conservatives conserving? It\u2019s certainly not the union | Marina Hyde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With his ever-evolving \u2018plans\u2019, Boris Johnson has succeeded in alienating even those who were once his biggest fansI hate to stray into superforecasting, but I wonder whether Boris Johnson\u2019s wheeze of dividing the UK into a number of bitterly resentful regions will feel worth it in the end? He has created a sort of Covid Westeros, where local warlords rail and scheme against him, as do some of his own courtiers. Johnson, the body-positive Joffrey, rules by whim and weakness, convinced of a genius middle way that far more brilliant epidemiologists and economists insist simply does not exist. Even northern Tory MPs are saluting the Manchester mayor, Andy Burnham, for whom it hopefully won\u2019t all go a bit Rob Stark. Otherwise, unity hopes are pinned on the Marcus Rashford 2036 World Cup ticket.In the meantime, it\u2019s such an intriguing strategy to deliberately sow divisions. Or tiers, as Johnson prefers to euphemise them. No wonder half his party wants to tier him a new one over it. Consider Jake Berry, once such a rabid Johnson fan that when Michael Gove torpedoed Bojo\u2019s 2016 leadership bid, Berry thundered of Gove: \u201cThere is a very deep pit reserved in hell for such as he.\u201d On Thursday night, Berry\u2019s warning shot was fired in quite a different direction. The 80 northern Conservative MPs \u201care the prime minister\u2019s majority\u201d, he told Spectator TV \u201cand \u2013 bluntly \u2013 he needs to look after us\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/oct\/16\/conservatives-party-boris-johnson\" target=\"_blank\">What exactly are the Conservatives conserving? It\u2019s certainly not the union | Marina Hyde<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With his ever-evolving \u2018plans\u2019, Boris Johnson has succeeded in alienating even those who were once his biggest fansI hate to stray into superforecasting, but I wonder whether Boris Johnson\u2019s wheeze of dividing the UK into a number of bitterly resentful regions will feel worth it in the end? He has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}