A warm welcome to the Clemenceau, a glorious riposte to those who either imagine or pretend to imagine that asbestos is still handled in the way that it was handled in past decades. They have the same attitude to coal-mining (of which their view is barely, if at all, post-War), to nuclear power, and to all manner of other things.
At root, they object to the presence of any industrial site in this country, precisely because they object to high-wage, high-skilled, high-status jobs for the working class in general and for working-class men in particular.
The idea of such men having the economic power necessary to exercise traditional paternal authority in their families and communities fills them with horror, not least because so many of them are employed at public expense to service the absence of such authority, which derives from the enforced absence of that power. In this, they are truly Thatcher's Children, pure products of the Eighties.
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Yes, but they are out of power now for a generation. They are reduced to merely shouting on this blog. And as well all know, people who can no longer express real influence but can only express their opinions through a blog have really lost any form of power or influence.
ReplyDeleteIndeed they have...
ReplyDeleteOut for a generation? If only! In America, probably for even longer than that, and possibly for ever. But not in Britain either if Cameron wins or when the New Labour next generation takes over.
But I thought uyou said cameron can't possibly win?
ReplyDeleteNo, I said that I was thoroughly unconvinced that he would. And I am. Those who say that he is home and dry either don't read anything in the right-wing papers unless they have written it themselves, or don't understand how the electoral system works, or both.
ReplyDeleteBut he might.
Not that it would matter, because the same generation on nominally the other side is exactly the same, and at least those not actually in his government would be in the one that came after his single term.
that's right. I don't know why people are so confused. You've never said that cameron can't win, only that it's unlikely. And you're right, as ever.
ReplyDeleteI am not aware of any confusion, Ox. But thank you.
ReplyDeleteNow, back on topic, please.
David, why don't any of the people who post such fawning compliments ever seem to have blogs of their own?
ReplyDeleteI would have thought a grassroots campaign such as the BPA's would be more reliant on this sort of thing than most.
Some of them do...
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