William Rees-Mogg, always worth watching as a potential prodigal, is wrong to imply that the War reinforced traditional values, or that this country can never again have the sort of manufacturing base that she once had.
But he is absolutely right about the need for full employment in order to safeguard family values in general and the control of boys in particular. And about the deeper, utterly anti-Thatcherite and anti-neoliberal point that economics must be strictly the means to social, cultural and patriotic political ends. To say the reverse is not to be a conservative. It is to be a Marxist.
Rees-Mogg's is one of several fatted calves that would be ill-advised to seek life insurance these days.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment