Monday, December 04, 2006

Still Cool to be a Conservative?

I see that Satire Searchseems to have dropped its support for the 'Coolservative' cause. There's part of me which would like to think that it was my polemics about Satire Search's unhealthy identification with a specific party political cause (along with my satirising of Cameron's Coolservatives over on The Sleaze) which resulted in this divorce. However, the site has now shacked up with the even more unspeakable UK Independence Party (UKIP). The latter are a bunch of xenophobic Little Englanders only a couple of steps away from the BNP (except that they like to think of themselves as more respectable, as they hate European foreigners regardless of race, rather than non-whites, like the BNP).

Whilst it seems that the current owners of Satire Search are incapable of grasping the fact that satire is inevitably neutered by being shackled in the service of a particular political party, it is quite entertaining, from a non-conservative point of view, to see the way the site has now turned on its former pin-up boy David Cameron. Instead of links to the 'Coolservative' site, you can now find a link to 'Tory Tosser' instead. Saddened though I am to see a satire headline aggregator effectively turned into a propaganda tool, at least it seems to be an indication that Cameron's honeymoon period might now be over, and the reactionaries are now reverting to form. As far as I'm concerned, the more time these bastards spend fighting amongst themselves, the better. The last time it happened, quite a few Tories lost their seats as a result of the right wing vote being split between them and UKIP. Let's hope that's repeated at the next election!

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