Friday 5 September 2008

Coal Is Conservative

This retains an almost touching faith in privatisation, whereas what is needed is public ownership, which is British ownership, since nothing else can deliver what is necessary on the scale that is necessary.

And it is hysterically wrong about Russia, the point about which, for the present purpose, is simply that she is a foreign country, on whom we must not depend when we do not need to, since we must not depend on any foreign country when we do not need to.

Together with nuclear power, coal offers to secure high-wage, high-skilled, high-status jobs for the working class, and independence from Arab oil and Russian gas. Among many other good things, this would contribute significantly to reversing Thatcher's destruction of the economic base of paternal authority, initially in working-class families and communities, but then very rapidly throughout society as a whole.

How could any conservative object to that?

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