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"On current polling the Tories are going to go down very hard indeed, so the big beasts are jockying for position in the race to succeed Sunak, who is the hapless figurehead of a doomed regime. Meanwhile, they can't deliver any optimistic news on policy (inflation, health, industry, trade, Brexit ... everything's all in the shitter, including the beaches and waterways) so they have to resort to the same scare tactics as the US Republicans.

"This means doubling down on fear and hatred of immigrants, gays, trans, foreigners, the EU, pit bull cross-breeds, 20mph speed limits, 15 minute cities, and anything else that comes to hand. (The only lever they can't pull is anything to do with COVID19; they own it, and they ain't getting out of that one.)

"So expect ever more sewage to flood the media channels over the next year as the Tory leadership candidates—Braverman, Badenoch, et al— try to out-fascist one another.

Charlie Stross

This seemed like a pretty good summary and assessment of the situation here... Fash Island has been especially fash this week and it's expected to fash harder for some time – we're really in it right now, so hold your people and batten down the hatches