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The Conservative Party’s Biggest Postwar Failure — Marriage
‘Make marriage in any serious degree unstable, dissoluble, destroy the permanency of marriage, and the church falls… The marriage-tie… is the fundamental link in the Christian society. Break it, and you will have to go back to the overwhelming dominance of the State, which existed before the Christian era. The Roman state was all-powerful.’
- D. H. Lawrence, 1929
In recent news, Conservative MP Nick Fletcher delivered a speech to a debate concerning International Men’s Day in Westminster Hall. In it, he discussed that one of the main problems that young men faced is the lack of male role models in contemporary society, both in general and in the cultural sphere. To highlight his point, he noted that there was much talk of how females should replace traditionally male roles in movies and television, of which in the end would only lead to the likes of Thomas Shelby from Peaky Blinders and the Kray Twins as role models for young men to look up to — to which Fletcher then noted, ‘Is there any wonder we are seeing so many young men committing crime?’
Of course, this nuanced point was then taken out of context by the usual spin doctors and outrage mobs to make it seem as if it was a trivial and dumb argument by a sexist Conservative MP complaining about the current Doctor Who being a female. In…