It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the case of gay Tories, there is one particularly silly variant of the category, which asserts that gayness is bred in public schools and thus fits with Conservatism like hand in
I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.

