An Orgy of Licensed Hatred

AN ORGY OF LICENCED HATRED because the function of Boris, as an Unherd article I posted a little while back suggested, is as ‘sin-eater’ or scapegoat. He is the Etonian, Marxist class enemy on the altar. He is the insouciant, unfeeling, lying, selfish, morally repugnant, braying Tory (in the tradition of Alan B’stard) but he is also the dangerous liberally educated who is more eloquent and fluent than his enemies around whom he can run rings verbally and, worst of all, direct Falstaffian laughter at. This is the punishment of intelligence. As Boris ebulliently rebutted Keir Starmer’s pious denunciation Starmer sat pinned back against the bench immobile with a look of pure hatred such as you see on those who envy and resent talent. Then Ian Blackford did his carefully choreographed walk-out after the histrionic and liturgical three accusations of lying, resembling a formal malediction.

These people are morally confused and desperately searching for the certainty of moral true north where real evil or good might reside. They think, in Boris, they might have found (they haven’t ) the true north of evil and the certainty that demands executive action. So, now, it’s like the chorus in Rigoletto screaming and chanting in unison - ‘Vendetta!’ because they think they can do so without fear of being called to account afterwards.

This has nothing to do with rationality or anything of real political importance. It’s the settling of scores through a religious frenzy. It’s an important moment because if they succeed they slaughter all of that….

And the introduction of the Police, those with the power to criminalise formally, to rubber stamp the certainty and make the permission to hate formal…….