Not to say Mail.
If the conservative papers were really any such thing (there is no point bothering about the Tories as a party), then not only would they be anti-war, but they would also be right behind the postal strike, an effort to defend national sovereignty against both global capital in general and the EU in particular, to defend rural communities, and to defend the monarchy’s direct link to every address in the country, as surely as it is an effort to defend strong unions, and to defend public services in the public sector.
All these things are so intimately bound up as to be inseparable.
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Conservatives in Britain have always been pro-war. Why do you think that they used not to be? When was the last time conservatives opposed a war - apart from the appeasers in the 1930s whose appeasement caused the Second World War?
ReplyDeleteWhere does one even begin? Perhaps with Enoch Powell's opposition to the Vietnam War, opposition to the Gulf War, and opposition to nuclear weapons on principle?
ReplyDeleteWars are expensive, they are morally and socially disruptive, they embitter old enemies, and they create new ones. We must be prepared for them, since they are sometimes unavoidable. But very, very rarely indeed.