Member-only story
Should Menopause Be The Basis of Another Culture War?
Britain’s leading politician seems to think so.
The Conservative party has been quite exceptional at one thing in the last six years.
And no, I am not talking about Brexit.
The one thing that it has done so well in the last few years has been to stoke culture wars where there’s been no need for it.
To get the Brexit vote, it lied through its teeth about the Turks, Kurds, Polish, Romanians, Albanians, Hungarians and everyone else.
It scared the already bigoted natives into thinking that swarms of Turkish folks were about to invade our shores and turn Britain into a Muslim country.
And the stoking of culture wars meant that it was able to win the referendum vote in 2016 along with the subsequent elections which took place in 2017 and 2019.
Put yourself in their shoes for a second.
If you were a Tory politician, you’d fully appreciate that there isn’t much to shout about from the rooftops: Brexit has failed abysmally, our supermarkets are empty, our economy is shrinking at an alarming rate and the use of food banks has risen in the last few years.
To distract the gullible public, you would have to find issues to polarize them like the following: