Towards a British meta-politics

In a British context, the Johnsonian Alt Right are wrong, for three main reasons –

(i). political change and cultural change are an interaction, it’s not one or the other but both;

(ii). predominantly political power comes before cultural change, not after; and,

(iii). cultural and intellectual struggle are not meta-politics.

Nationalism needs a soft underbelly of civic and community support.  Without that, you’ve got no link to the community and you end up marooned in echo chambers and on the internet.  You’ve also got no way of changing society’s culture because you have no seat of power from which to activate cultural change.  The obnoxious changes we see in our communities are funded by public grant money and local authority enabling.

By rejecting politics in favour of cultural pursuits, the Alt Right may have been pursuing an appropriate strategy for American society (I don’t myself know, it’s down to them), but in Britain it has neutered us.