A True Conservative Writes

Specifically, Stuart Reid writes:

Michael [Wharton, aka Peter Simple] remains an example to the many people who call themselves conservatives, but are often nothing more than libertarians.

He thought that Clement Attlee was one of the great English Prime Ministers of the last century (he had little time for Churchill), and he supported almost anyone who resisted change - thus, in the Eighties, the Fleet Street printers and the coalminers, and especially his fellow Yorkshireman Arthur Scargill.

The economic and military humiliation of Anglo-America would not have surprised Michael. He detested international capitalism and the war on terror, believing that both were inspired by what he might have called "pernicious nonsense". As he used to say: "Things are never as they seem."