‘Woke Psychodrama’ Weakens the West: UK Conservative Party Chairman

‘Woke Psychodrama’ Weakens the West: UK Conservative Party Chairman
Conservative Party chairman and minister without portfolio Oliver Dowden leaves after a Cabinet meeting at Downing Street, on Nov. 16, 2021. Rob Pinney/Getty Images
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The United States and the UK cannot afford to indulge in the Left’s “painful woke psychodrama” that is weakening the West just when it is confronted with severe external challenges, the chairman of Britain’s ruling Conservative Party has warned.

In a speech hosted by the Heritage Foundation in Washington, Oliver Dowden dubbed “woke” ideology as a “dangerous form of decadence” at a time when “our attention should be focused on external foes.”