The Monarchist 1.0
Defending the British Crown Commonwealth and the English-Speaking Peoples
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[+] HONOURING OUR QUEEN, ELIZABETH THE SECOND, ON THE 80TH YEAR OF HER BIRTH (1926 - 2006)
[+] HONOURING OUR KING, SAINT EDWARD THE CONFESSOR, ON THE 1000TH YEAR OF HIS BIRTH (1005 - 2005)
[+] HONOURING OUR HERO, LORD NELSON, ON THE BICENTENNIAL OF THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR (1805 - 2005)
[+] HONOURING OUR SONS, THE QUEEN'S COMMONWEALTH SOLDIERS KILLED IN THE 'WAR ON TERROR'
Chief Warrant Officer Robert Girouard, 46, Royal Canadian Regiment, Nov 27, 2006 (Afstan)
Staff Sergeant Sharron Elliott, 34, Intelligence Corps, Nov 12, 2006 (Iraq)
Private Jacob B. Kovco, 25, Royal Australian Regiment, April 21, 2006
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Monday, September 11, 2006
Labour Tory, same old story
I just admire this politically sober analysis from the Gods of the Copybook Headings:
The British political classes had flashbacks to the fall of 1990 this week, with an assassination attempt on the British PM's political life. Those with long memories will recall that the overthrow of the Iron Lady, by her Wet enemies, fatally weakened the Conservatives. While the lamentable John Major did narrowly win the 1992, with no small thanks to the Sun's famous election eve attack on Neil Kinnock's Labour, over the longer term the party was destroyed. Thatcher, like Blair, was a modernizer who greatly antagonized the Old Guard. In Mrs T's case everything rankled. She was a woman from the lower-middle classes, who had fought tenaciously for nearly a decade to enter Parliament. Her style was abrasive, her conduct of party and government affairs business like, even her voice, high pitched and headmistress-like, grated the Tory patricians. The cosy life of the Tory Wets, the gentle glide from Eton, Harrow or Winchester to Oxbridge and to the Commons, or even for the humbler born men like John Major, was very rudely interrupted by the Thatcher Revolution.
Old Labour was similarly disturbed by the New Labour Revolution. Blair did not invent New Labour, credit for that goes to the late John Smith who, in a twist worthy of Victorian politics, or a BBC mini-series, died suddenly, bringing his lieutenant to the leadership. The youngish Blair brought a brashness of style to his conduct of party affairs matched with a smarmy Clitonesque public image. The Old Labour mandarins, both the TUC leaders brought low by Thatcherism and the pipe-smoking intellectuals who backed Michael Foot, were not amused. Neither Major nor Brown were representatives of the Old Guard, but they benefited from an accumulated hatred of the their predecessors. The post-1990 divisions have left the Tories an ideologically empty hulk, any shift to the right or left likely to re-salt the unhealed wounds. Don't expect anything different from a Brownite Labour Party.
POSTED BY: The Monarchist AT 3:01 p.m. | LINKS |
I just admire this politically sober analysis from the Gods of the Copybook Headings:
The British political classes had flashbacks to the fall of 1990 this week, with an assassination attempt on the British PM's political life. Those with long memories will recall that the overthrow of the Iron Lady, by her Wet enemies, fatally weakened the Conservatives. While the lamentable John Major did narrowly win the 1992, with no small thanks to the Sun's famous election eve attack on Neil Kinnock's Labour, over the longer term the party was destroyed. Thatcher, like Blair, was a modernizer who greatly antagonized the Old Guard. In Mrs T's case everything rankled. She was a woman from the lower-middle classes, who had fought tenaciously for nearly a decade to enter Parliament. Her style was abrasive, her conduct of party and government affairs business like, even her voice, high pitched and headmistress-like, grated the Tory patricians. The cosy life of the Tory Wets, the gentle glide from Eton, Harrow or Winchester to Oxbridge and to the Commons, or even for the humbler born men like John Major, was very rudely interrupted by the Thatcher Revolution.
Old Labour was similarly disturbed by the New Labour Revolution. Blair did not invent New Labour, credit for that goes to the late John Smith who, in a twist worthy of Victorian politics, or a BBC mini-series, died suddenly, bringing his lieutenant to the leadership. The youngish Blair brought a brashness of style to his conduct of party affairs matched with a smarmy Clitonesque public image. The Old Labour mandarins, both the TUC leaders brought low by Thatcherism and the pipe-smoking intellectuals who backed Michael Foot, were not amused. Neither Major nor Brown were representatives of the Old Guard, but they benefited from an accumulated hatred of the their predecessors. The post-1990 divisions have left the Tories an ideologically empty hulk, any shift to the right or left likely to re-salt the unhealed wounds. Don't expect anything different from a Brownite Labour Party.
POSTED BY: The Monarchist AT 3:01 p.m. | LINKS |
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