Come election day, I knew the Conservatives would triumph: coworkers, friends and my mother will confirm that I predicted a Tory majority of 40 seats plus.
It was based on gut. I woke up that morning and thought: “The British might be eccentric but we’re not mad. Jeremy Corbyn cannot win.”
But right up to election day, a lot of us were worried he might – even though the polls told us he was facing a drubbing. Why the disconnect? One answer is that Britain might be a moderate country but our cultural establishment is liberal-Left.
We live submerged in a culture that is at odds with most people’s values, yet it does its best to convince us that we are “the few” and they – the comedians, the actors,... [Blogger: Those of superior intellect and morals?]
Tim Stanley. Telegraph.
