IF PENNY Mordaunt succeeds Boris Johnson, the nation will get a Prime Minister who’s extra authoritarian, extra ideological, extra woke, extra anti-life, anti-freedom, anti-family and anti-marriage.
Her report means that she shall be a pacesetter for whom social conservativism and the standard values which have till lately been a key part of the Conservative motion will matter even lower than they did for Johnson.
For the second, the Worldwide Commerce Minister is doing a superb job of enjoying the patriotic and army card and promising to be a certain and secure hand on the tiller. She is getting away with it as a result of most individuals don’t know who she is, and maybe they just like the minimize of her jib. She appears to be like and seems like a Conservative, however ‘conservative’ she just isn’t.
Though Ms Mordaunt was baptised a Roman Catholic and educated on the Oaklands Roman Catholic Faculty Academy in Waterlooville, Hampshire, she appears not remotely attuned to the core Christian values which have at all times knowledgeable British tradition. Quite the opposite, she seems overtly hostile to them.
She has already tied herself in knots over gender, having publicly and enthusiastically endorsed the trans ideology however is now attempting to distance herself from it.
Equally disturbing is the probability that the nation may additionally get euthanasia and assisted suicide if Ms Mordaunt had been PM, on condition that she has been lively within the marketing campaign to alter the regulation since 2010, the yr she was elected to Parliament.
Inside months she was a founding chair of the All Get together Parliamentary Group on Alternative on the Finish of Life, a automobile to combat for assisted suicide and euthanasia and supported with secretarial help by Dignity in Dying, previously generally known as the Voluntary Euthanasia Society.
That very same yr she turned the one MP to just accept an appointment to the Fee on Assisted Dying chaired by Lord Falconer, which was later criticised by the British Medical Affiliation for bias as a result of a major majority of members ‘are publicly in favour of assisted suicide and euthanasia’.
Ms Mordaunt was amongst these members to whom the BMA referred, having informed a newspaper in Portsmouth that she needed the regulation modified. ‘My private view is that assisted dying ought to be allowed for the terminally sick,’ she stated.
Oddly, she abstained from the 2015 vote wherein the Assisted Dying Invoice of Labour MP Rob Marris was thrown out of the Commons by 330 votes to 118. However that doesn’t imply that she has modified her opinion.
Final summer time PM Johnson got here to the conclusion that he wouldn’t permit Parliamentary time for an virtually equivalent Invoice launched by Baroness Meacher, making its failure inevitable, however in a repeat of the state of affairs Ms Mordaunt may not solely be sympathetic to such laws however might actively help it. In view of her earlier activism, there’s a actual danger {that a} authorities led by her would carry ahead its personal Invoice to legalise assisted suicide and even euthanasia.
Naturally, she can be fiercely pro-abortion, and of all of the candidates standing for the Conservative management none has voted for pro-abortion measures greater than she has, a complete of eight events. Ms Mordaunt has by no means as soon as voted in favour of life, not even for average measures reminiscent of these to limit the sex-selective abortions of child ladies just because they’re feminine.
Slightly, she is alleged to be near the teams in search of extra permissive laws, giving rise to fears that she is going to search to enshrine and defend abortion as a human proper in British regulation, probably on demand and even as much as beginning.
Stella Creasy, the Labour MP who persuaded the Authorities to impose abortion on Northern Eire towards the desires of the overwhelming majority of the individuals there, says she couldn’t have executed it with out Ms Mordaunt taking on the trigger at a time when the consensus amongst senior Conservatives was that abortion ought to stay a devolved matter.
After a go to to BPAS (the British Being pregnant Advisory Service), the biggest personal abortion supplier within the UK which drives many of the campaigning work for additional liberalisation of the regulation, she tweeted her help.
Ms Mordaunt’s intervention is critical as a result of it reveals a totalitarian impulse in her method to problems with conscience, her willingness to legislate towards the desires of the individuals and to be their grasp moderately than their servant. Her well-documented want to limit Press freedom reveals the same authoritarian theme.
What the Conservatives maybe should ask themselves is whether or not they need somebody within the mould of Stella Creasy or Baroness Meacher working the nation?
Does the nation really need its personal model of a globalist authoritarian reminiscent of Jacinda Ardern, the Prime Minister of New Zealand who has decriminalised abortion and legalised euthanasia whereas relentlessly exercising her penchant for locking down the individuals of her land on the grounds depriving them of their liberties is sweet for his or her well being? In November 2020 she instructed that England may need to arrange for at the least three additional lockdowns, and never simply the one which ran from January to the next Could.
Ms Mordaunt boasts that she is the candidate that the Labour Get together fears most. She plainly isn’t. She is unquestionably the candidate the Left likes the perfect. On social issues, she is virtually one among them and as PM she would destroy any vestige of social conservativism that also stays inside the Conservative Get together.
The way in which to avert such a catastrophe is for the Conservative Get together to nominate a pacesetter who is really a conservative. Ms Mordaunt can be the fallacious selection.
