The new mayor of London has an openly gay deputy mayor and several other openly gay – and married – appointees stand out. When NRO-niks start talking about a British conservative revival, they often fail to point out that it is happening while the Tories have decisively broken with the anti-gay policies that the GOP regards as non-negotiable features of their conservatism. I should add that Boris is also an unashamed member of the most privileged part of the most privileged elite. He went to Britain’s most exclusive schools, Eton and Oxford, where he was a member of the Bullingdon. David Cameron is also an Etonian and a Bullingdon member. And yet no right-winger in Britain accuses them of not caring about regular folks.
Isn’t it revealing that America’s political conversation now has more class consciousness than Britain’s? Thanks, Karl.
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