In terms of the war that Johnson isn't really fighting, he obviously would rather be fighting the war against the left, the culture war, if you will.

And unfortunately, this kind of situation tends to support calls for things like suppressing certain parts of industry, socialising incomes.

And then that leads to other questions, which is, you know, what about a universal basic

income?

What about suppressing damaging fossil industries?

You know, all of that sort of stuff.

And I think that, you know, this is not the war that they want to be

fighting because it legitimizes. I mean, just in terms of the analogy, clearly Neville

Chamberlain didn't want a war with Hitler because he thought that the correct war was with

communism. And he was quite happy for Hitler to be turned loose against Soviet Russia.

And the result of Churchill taking power and heading a coalition government was that he

actually had to put up with the left having a degree of clout within society.

And its agenda becoming quite popular so that by

1945 Labour One landslide that's the sort of issue here there is a danger that the

really common struggle even if it was nationalized even if it was sort of bedraggled with

flags and bunting,

would legitimise the kind of agenda that they thought they'd just buried in December 2019.

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