Once the idiots in the Conservative party elected the "buffoon brand" for their leader, it just confirmed that the Tories have no integrity, if we did not already know that from many of their immigration policies. But then again Blair showed the Labour party also has no integrity. The Tories seemed to have followed the same game-plan as the delegates in GOP who chose Trump. Both Trump and the buffoon have a certain mass appeal because they are not averse to taking advantage of culture wars to appeal to the voters.
I think culture, beliefs and values are what many people are voting on now - it all seems to have become very emotion-based decision-making, regardless of education or intelligence. The majority of people will probably vote based on self-interest including me. That self-interest may include economic considerations (tax rates and government financial mismanagement) but also certain core principles and values they believe in and therefore will want to see upheld such as freedom of speech and ideas and debate. So people may vote for the party that is most likely to protect the core values they see as important, even where there is clear evidence of wrongdoing and deceit in other areas.
Which leads me unfortunately to the observation that I have voted for my Labour MP in the past elections because she is a good MP and I knew there was little chance of Labour actually winning a General Election under Corbyn and the UK finances being run under hard-left socialist principles. But now, while the Tories are the only party where the buffoon leadership is not opposed to pushing back against the transgender lobby (they scrapped GRA reforms), I guess I may well be voting for a party led by an immoral buffoon - hopefully they will have replaced him by the time the next election rolls round but if they haven't I will have to make a decision at that point as to whether I will vote Tory in the next election if the other parties are still upholding trans ideology to the point where MPs cannot even debate the issue. Restrictions to free speech to this extent, is a far more worrying prospect to me than Boris.
Marsha de Cordova, the Labour MP for Battersea who was the Shadow Women and Equalities Secretary, but had to resign from that role after being harassed online for sharing an article arguing for the retention of women’s sex-based rights. Rosie Duffield was criticised by Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner, who seem to have prioritised trans people's feelings over women's rights to privacy and security.
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/17/ed-davey-boris-johnson-trans-rights/So I guess I may well see Tory "racism", rule-breaking, financial self-interest and a complete lack of integrity as lower priority issues than the issue of free speech, especially when it comes to discussing protection of women's sex-based rights.
Regarding racism, Asian and black communities are filled with racists so I would probably have more sympathy if Asian and black people get their own house in order while preaching to white people about white privilege, as from where I am standing it looks like many BAME people just play the victim card and take it as a free pass to let themselves off the hook for all the racism they spew out.
