Former Australian Democrats leader and defector to the Labor Party,
Cheryl Kernot – and more recently the director of learning at the
London School for Social Entrepreneurs – weighs in on “The master of
the dog whistle” in today’s edition of The Guardian
.
“While
the Westminster village has been preoccupied with the big picture of
national issues,” she writes, “Crosby will have been orchestrating
campaigns of personal attacks and innuendo in marginal constituencies:
that the Labour sitting member is not a local, that they are more
interested in seeking a place on the front bench, that they are soft on
crime/immigration/abortion.”
She continues: “Crosby’s tactics
represent a truly serious threat to the civility and robustness of
British democracy and the way most politics is conducted in this
country. It may be all downwards from here on. A ‘colonial’ legacy of
the worst kind!”
And concludes: “As that hero of conservatives
Ayn Rand says: ‘The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but
the sanction you give it’.”
Read the full story here
.
Crikey is committed to hosting lively discussions. Help us keep the conversation useful, interesting and welcoming. We aim to publish comments quickly in the interest of promoting robust conversation, but we’re a small team and we deploy filters to protect against legal risk. Occasionally your comment may be held up while we review, but we’re working as fast as we can to keep the conversation rolling.
The Crikey comment section is members-only content. Please subscribe to leave a comment.
The Crikey comment section is members-only content. Please login to leave a comment.