The Nationalist Party’s values are now those of a neo-fascist and former money-launderer for a prostitution racket

I’ve seen a bit said today about how supporters of the Nationalist Party should get behind the new leader and make sure that the Nationalist Party’s values are upheld.

I’m sorry to have to break this to them, and I won’t do it gently: the Nationalist Party’s values are expressed in its leader, and it is pointless referring to what has gone before.

The Nationalist Party has now elected – or rather, is about to elect – a neo-fascist and former money-launderer for a prostitution racket to its topmost position. Those are now its core values.

We are what we vote: that can’t be repeated often enough. It is pointless going on about a litany of the Nationalist Party’s historic core values up until yesterday, if today it chose what it chose to lead it.

And people whose values are completely different to those of the Moses who the neo-fascist element in the Nationalist Party hopes will guide them through their years in the desert – of which they have experienced a mere four and still they can’t stand it, like children – should not get behind him at all. Getting behind him serves to justify his past and legitimise his present.

Life is not a lesson in Roman Catholic doctrine, about condemning the sin but not the sinner, about repentance and forgiveness. Life is about hard reality. And hard reality dictates that some things are completely unacceptable, while some people are intrinsically amoral. People with no sense of right or wrong are a permanent potential risk.

When even the government’s head of communications, who is surrounded by sleaze, feels moved to remark in public about the sleaziness of this lawyer, you have to work out what else he knows that you don’t.