What we're seeing isn't right wing authoritarianism. It's Johnsonism. A government that will go to any lengths to avoid owning up to its unforced errors. It's cowardly incompetence. If it was RWA it would at least be doing something halfway useful. https://twitter.com/new_number_2/status/1306401641034285056

It could conceivably become RWA next year when Johnson has cocked everything up so badly he starts hemorrhaging votes by which time he'll turn his attention to immigration or crime, but largely headline populist policies they announce every few years but never amounts to anything

A real RWA government would look to confront wokeism in public institutions and take on the blob in academia. They would get round to deporting illegal immigrants, abolish the London mayor, scrap the supreme court and do away with the HRA.

There's a great deal more a RWA government could do, all if which requires a vision and some sort of backbone which we're never going to get from a terminally useless Conservative party that's afraid of its own shadow.

This is where pearl clutchers like @anneapplebaum have it wrong. Tory marketing is good at co-opting grunters for its largely commercial agenda but has no real interest in governing or shaping the country. Brexit means nothing to them. It's just a feeding frenzy for their cronies

So long as the Tories are making themselves a mint they don't care if the country falls apart nor will they lift a finger to stop the communist decolonisation agenda running rampant through our institutions. That's too much like hard work.

If anything, the Tory failure to do anything substantively right wing or Conservative apart from lining their own pockets all but guarantees an actual RWA government some time in the future. Tories might whip up right wing sentiment but it won't manifest in actual policy.

We'll see them look to blame the EU for the economic consequences of no deal, and we'll see heightened jingoism, but only as a means to fend off a resurgent Labour Party. Tories only interested in retaining power, not wielding it.

The Tories will lose an election eventually, with UK voting Labour as the lesser of two evils having forgotten how dreadful they are, which will accelerate the left wing trends in tbe cultural establishment, by which time the right's only path to power is genuine RWA.

In short, if you were hoping the Oaf would "drain the swamp" then you were born yesterday. He's restocking it with fresh pondlife. It's exactly this kind of cronyism, corruption and decadence that plays midwife to fascist/communist revolution. Establishment inertia will do it.

Both extremes can smell death on the current Con/Lab regime. All it takes is the economic conditions to slide into the abyss then the race for dominance begins. We're heading the same way as America. This is the death of the post-war west.

Academic and liberal elites fail to recognise that the Tories didn't bring Brexit about. It was happening anyway. The Tories just saw it coming and had their pawns in place long before in order to capture it and use it for personal gain.

They wear populist clothes at election time and appoint phoneys like Patel to placate the grunters, having usurped Ukip, but in substance they're a continuation of the bland managerialism we've had since Thatcher only slightly right of centre now. Cameronism with Brexit floppys.

This is why the histories of Brexit written by the Goodwins of this world will be total crap. Brexit isnt the revolution. Revolution was averted by successfully neutering the rise of the right with Brexit. When they realise theyve been had by the Tories, then it gets interesting

What Brexit did was take politics out of the store cupboard. That's what the EU is. A place to lock politics away from plebs. What youre seeing now is 40 years of unresolved politics spilling out with a lot of catching to do. Thats why it was a mistake to join in the first place.

In a lot of ways we've left Brexit far too late. We could have salvaged a functioning country from Brexit pre-Lisbon, but too much damage has been done, and in order to reach a new national consensus both sides have to fight it out to the death.

This is why Scotland probably has to go its own way. There is no union to speak of. There isn't even a union between England and its own capital city. We replaced the British Union with a technocratic European Union that has weakened the idea of citizenship and nationhood.

Consequently we probably will lose Northern Ireland and Scotland to become a rump UK... basically Switzerland with nukes, gradually sucked into associate single market membership. Effectively formalising what has long since happened while in the EU, but couldn't admit.

In the longer term the UK probably will re-form when the EU eventually disintegrates. The UK is an organic cultural union whereas a union based on common meat hygiene regulations and currency has a natural expiry date. Though not any time soon.

By that point the former EU states will have their own internal reckoning to do. The UK will be the first to recover any sense of stability in the new global order while new European proto-blocs emerge, East, West and South. V4 will be the first.

This is all part of a global realignment as we settle into the post-work digital age accelerated by Covid. The old order was never going to withstand the Internet. The new battleground is online, not over coal and steel for which the EU was designed.

But look how happy this dog is.