In the 1930s, Britain was prepared to tolerate Hitler and Mussolini, because it saw fascism and Nazism as a bastion against Russia. Australian Prime Minister, Bob Menzies, who was a monarchist to his bootheels, was an admirer of fascism. He was also the dopey bastard who, as Attorney-General, in the Lyons Government, signed a contract to supply expansionist, Imperial Japan with scrap pig iron that the Waterside Workers Federation refused to load onto ships for fear that it may be used to fire back at Australian troops.

I encountered a particularly despicable "conservative" on twitter, who claimed to believe in "small government and free speech" but what conservatives mean when they say "free speech" is the right to say whatever they like about whomever they like without the other person having recourse against them or the right to take offence, This despicable "conservative" claimed that the idiot who is President of the Board of Trade, is "an honest gentleman". This is the same idiot who was fined $500 Australian for not wearing a mask in public with a defense statement that would have caused even a stern judge to burst out laughing at.