No wonder that so many New Labourites voted for John Bercow. No one ever asks him about his Hang Mandela days. Just as they never ask John Reid or Peter Mandelson about the Communist Party, in those days the paid agents of an enemy power. Just as they never ask Alistair Darling or Bob Ainsworth about the International Marxist Group, which also included Geoff Gallop, Tony Blair’s mentor at Oxford.
Just as they never ask Stephen Byers or Alan “Haze of Dope” Milburn about Trotskyism. Just as they never ask Charles Clarke about Labour’s Soviet fellow-travelling faction and its control of the NUS not only during his presidency, but also during (among other people’s) Jack Straw’s. Just as they never ask Harriet Harman about the Paedophile Information Exchange and Paedophile Action for Liberation. And so on, and on, and on.
The “moderate”, “mainstream”, “Centre Left” New Labour was, and is, riddled with this sort of thing, entirely unrecanted, and with only the tactics (if anything) changed.
Likewise, the “moderate”, “mainstream”, “Centre Right” Cameroons are riddled with old cheerleaders for, and fund-takers from, the Boer Republic set up as an explicit act of anti-British revenge in a former Dominion of the Crown. Circles in which it was also de rigueur to demand the dismantlement of the public services, the forced abortion and sterilisation of ethnic minorities and the working class, the legalisation of all drugs, and the abolition of marriage, public holidays, any minimum age of consent, and much else besides.
(Quite what would have happened to them if they had ever moved to South Africa or, say, Chile with views like that? This rather amusing question can also be asked of the enemies of uniformed, row-seated, teacher-led, rigorously examined schooling: what would have happened to you if you had ever moved to the Soviet Union?)
Once again, entirely unrecanted.
And once again, with only the tactics (if anything) changed.
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Clever move by Farage who does not usually say or do clever things. It is his most endearing quality.
ReplyDeleteBercow as Speaker will get it too easy. I distrust this "unopposed" nicety that surrounds the Speaker. So full marks to ANYONE opposing the cosiness. It will also help Farage that thru taking on the Speaker he will be taking on ALL and NONE of the Parties.
As to Bercows past...well he has prospered thru having the love of a good woman. who among us has not done something silly in our youth.
You have an obsession with Reids past, Bercows past Milburns past......and McNultys (you omitted him this time) past.
All they need to do is say that it was wrong at the time. They never have.
ReplyDeleteAnd how long does foolish youth extend? We are talking about well into many of their adult lives.