pre-occupied with bringing up their kids, they could in fact devote their time to disastrous things such as working towards a meritocratic society or even worse a democratic one, where the landed gentry are taxed out of existence and made to work for a living. Equally it is wrong to think that the leaders of the anti-abortion movement are economically left-wing catholics. The majority of social conservatives (even in this country, but of course in America) are protestant-capitalists, who are happy to ignore the more bolshevik (sorry for the anachronism) tendencies of Jesus. In short, those committed to societal and economic justice should take heed of Diane Abbott - even if it is a shame that this clearly gifted woman chooses to be a part of the Faux-Labour party, and doesn't join a real left-wing party. But then again, there is little point in joining a genuine left-wing party like the greens, because her Labour party helped deny the possibility of representative elections in the UK! It's no secret the the Conservatives are a bunch of nasty social regressives, who crave ,often openly, a return to a Victorian era, with its rigid class system and outwardly at least, strict sexual morality . In fact the only areas in which they favour modernity are militaristic and financial - those where they stand to personally profit. People who vote for them are despicable I hope you are right about the lack of anti-intellectual constituency, but I am not so optimistic. As was