"Sex Work" - A wedge issue against post-liberalism

An ode to the Madam

Readers will be, I suspect, already convinced of the need for the Right of British politics to expunge the ‘wet’ contingent of the Conservative Party from public life. This could still take the form of something internal, akin to Morgan McSweeney’s purge of the Corbynite Left; or a new challenger party could uproot and cast out the entire rotten structure.

Whatever form it takes, the existence of a political faction which occupies a space on the right which disputes withdrawal from bogus ‘Human Rights’ legislation and the ECHR is intolerable. The 40-50% of the country which supports lower taxes/immigration/crime must have a coherent political vehicle for change - if one believes (as I do, unlike colleagues) in the use of democratic mandates in achieving political ends.

In the case of Keir Starmer’s purges, the eradication of the left of the party was not only on political grounds, but on aesthetics. Suits, ties, business; no more time for Corbyn’s vegetable allotments, donkey jackets and crumpled shirts (CF: Put on a Proper Tie). We must also reckon with the flaws in aesthetic judgement of many on the right of British politics.

Whilst Donald Trump must face down the American Religious Right, in Britain, a distinctly atheistic country, we are required to make no accommodation. Christian morality and post-liberal politics are, here, completely intertwined. The idea that we must abandon just in time supply chains, reject ‘atomisation, live in intergenerational households; these turgid views so antithetical to progress and growth are informed by a precocious morality which can be offended.

And offend, we must.

While the ‘one-nation’ of the Right can be effectively expunged over the rejection of international ‘commitments’ to Human Rights Legislation and the Supreme Court, dissolving the Tweedy Right requires breaking new ground intellectually. Asserting the inalienable right of children to use smartphones and vape during lessons, abolishing the Monarchy, Germline engineering - these are steps in the right direction, but I think the psychological link between the reactionary right and that sense of ‘Conservatism’ is so profound that we will need to build the walls of this church with their pasted bones.

The legalisation, and crucially, celebration, of prostitution, is a cause so radical that it is entirely outside of the Overton Window on both the Left and the Right of British Politics.