Mark Carroll's Journal

ETA: The good news is that history won't judge us badly because no-one will be alive to do it, hooray?

Well, the Tories have two problems here. Obviously any political party is crippled by short-termism - we need something akin to WW2 levels of austerity and without a disaster akin to Nazi Germany waiting to arrive in the next 5 years it's impossible for them to do anything. [1]

But the Tories are additionally set back by their decision post-Brexit to solve their UKIP defection problem by adopting the bits of the UKIP platform that aren't overtly racist; most of May's recent rhetoric has been along these lines. That necessarily includes climate change denialism until the point London is under water.

[1] I don't accept the argument that we can't do anything because the USA etc etc; we can clearly make unilateral statements that if the USA does X so will we, offering a half-signed treaty to agree to do X, and encourage other countries to do so.