The most obviously conservative and classically Tory statement imaginable, and look at the response. Since Margaret Thatcher, there is not a conservative or Tory bone in the Conservative Party's body.
Instead, on this as on everything else, its members and supporters are lining up with the Blairites, who hate Britain as much as Blair himself did; even while Prime Minister, he spent almost no time here. I doubt that he has paid tax here for 10 years or more (I am certain that he has not been a Labour Party member since the 2001 Election), and I should not be at all surprised if he had quietly become an American citizen by now.
A domestic manufacturing base, a largely domestic food supply, and ownership of our own industries and resources by our own citizens, are all integral to national sovereignty, including national security.
Buy British. The job that you save might be your own.
And buy the book here.
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Fair enough if the product meets your needs. However that is curry out of the window as how many spices needed can be produced in the UK?
ReplyDeleteIf we reject better German lager, then surely the Germans should reject our whisky in favour of their schnapps?
Protectionism breeds protectionism. Then again autarky was something advocated by Mussolini.
No, the Germans would have to reject our whisky in favour of their whisky. They wouldn't. To the best of my knowledge, you can get Scosch whisky absolutely anywhere on earth if you know how to go about it, which says a very great deal.
ReplyDeleteUntil such time as we could produce all of the ingredients for curry, then we would continue to import them. From the Commonwealth and from the BRICs countries, in that order. The BRICS, like the Germans (or the French), understand that if you are not prepared to insist on national and local produce, then you have no right to complain about national or local unemployment.
What have the reviews been like for your book? What's that you say? Nobody takes any notice of vanity publishing and you can't think why everyones laughing at you after your boasts about a top-drawer publisher?
ReplyDeleteSo far, I have been invited to a conference in Vienna later in the year (a bit short notice, but I'll make every effort), and to another one next year in Paris. So someone is certainly buying British.
ReplyDeleteThat's them told. The godfather of postliberal politics is on his way up. If it's vanity publishing you want, it's the publication of the unread books of Damian Thompson (a piece of camp ephemera celebrating a clerical old queen, and a rip off of Francis Wheen) or the one and only book by Oliver Kamm with a foreword by ... his uncle!
ReplyDeleteWhere are you staying in Vienna and Paris?
ReplyDeleteIn Vienna (well, just outside - in the country, darling), it's at the Papal Institute hosting the thing. Seems that it's being organised by a friend of a friend of mine, who's a fan and who is very keen to have me there. I really should, shouldn't I?
ReplyDeleteParis, I forget off hand, but it's terribly swish. Not until next July, and July is out of term anyway, so certainly a little something to look forward to. It's on Jacobitism, so they can only have heard of me from Confessions of an Old Labour High Tory. The email was in French (which I relish any opportunity to speak, and I have plenty of time to brush up), so word is clearly getting around.
With books like these, it's not how many readers, it's who they are. And they are...
You could do that in French?
ReplyDeleteWho is paying your air fare to Vienna?
Yes, with a year's notice. And then I'd be back in the swing of it. I read it as often as I can find an excuse, but I have very little opportunity to speak it, more is the pity. Why not dive back in with an academic conference in Paris? Mind you, I doubt that I'll actually offer a paper. Save that for 2014, perhaps?
ReplyDeleteNot me!
But you are already that good in German?
ReplyDeleteHell, no! The Vienna conference is in English. Learning German has been on my self-improvement list for half my lifetime, but I really should get on with it, among other things. Give me 10 years before I can do conferences in German. Seriously, why not?
ReplyDeleteOn topic, please.