One in the eye of David Cameron, who used the BBC, and specifically Michael Crick, to hound the token moral and social conservative (with links to things like CARE) whom he had felt obliged to make Party Chairman as a sort of fig-leaf.
Crick, of course, was the man who invented the myth of the Militant Tendency, which in reality barely existed beyond Merseyside and had far fewer members than even the International Socialists, the Workers' Revolutionary Party (for some reason depicted by Nick Cohen in What's Left as of earth-shattering importance) or the International Marxist Group (of which Alistair Darling was a stalwart).
But they were university-based, like the Communist Party. The purge of untypically working-class, frightfully provincial (why, even Scouse) Militant could be depicted as the purge of Trotskyism in particular, and Marxism in general. It was no such thing.
On the contrary, thanks to Crick and his Myth of Militant, the International Socialists, the Workers' Revolutionary Party, the International Marxist Group, the Communist Party, and all the others who had followed academic Marxism from economics to the culture wars in the pursuit of entirely unchanged objectives were able to create New Labour.
Of which the principal present expression is the Cameron Tories.
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What evidence do you have for the claim that Cameron orchestrated the Crick story? Direct evidence would be best, but even some sort of circumstantial, theoretically plausible account would be better than nothing.
ReplyDeleteIt must be so nice in your world, it really must be.
ReplyDeleteThe makers of Till Death Us Do Part had to make the Militant-reading son-in-law Scouse, even though the series was set in London.
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