She
came off the oligarchy that was commercial, provincially based,
Nonconformist (exactly the wrong word, really), and Liberal. A vanished
class. Her father was the last of its great barons to exercise national
influence, and he did so only vicariously and posthumously, through her.
But she was not working-class. She was not, as most people now seem
to think, lower-middle-class. She was brought up to loathe both the
age-old, or supposedly age-old, landed Anglican Tory elite, and the
ever-uneasy alliance between the emerging trade union-based elite and
the Fabian elite, because she came off another elite again. One of the
great elites of human history, in fact. The one within Victorian and Edwardian
Liberalism: commercial, based in the provinces, rooted in the chapels.
With her death, that finally dies. But she was never
"anti-Establishment", any more than the trade union barons were
anti-Establishment. She embodied a very particular Establishment which
had otherwise passed away, and which has now done so once and for all.
Having said all that, we at UKIP can certainly do without the ringing endorsement of Fraser Nelson we received today.
ReplyDeleteWe are not the rightful heirs to Thatcher, as he says-we ARE THE ONLY British party to oppose, comprehensive schools, the EU and mass immigration collectively, and the only British party to stand against multiculturalism, for which we've just been attacked as comparable to the BNP on the LibDemVoice site.
You know the Latte Liberal Elite are running scared when they bring out the "BNP card".
You are not in a position to be fussy. And good luck telling your potential voters that you are not the Bearers of the Thatcher Myth. That is what they want.
ReplyDeleteWe certainly are-our appeal is growing and growing every day-wait for the Euros!
ReplyDeleteNelson is astonished at the breadth of our support he witnessed at every meeting Farage attends.
He's going to have to start hiring out parks instead of halls...for every seated man, there's twice as many being forced to stand outside, as they were when he visited us this week.
Bring on those BNP smears...we love nothing better than making enemies of the kind of scum we saw on our streets this week.
We've been winding them up with big anti-immigration posters in towns and cities. We've got a few good tricks planned to provoke the Latte Liberal Crowd (it's too much like fun).
Watch this space.
We all know what is going to happen at the European Elections.
ReplyDeleteLabour way out ahead and the two rival claimants to the Thatcher mantle scrambling for second place about 10 points behind.
This has been clear for months now: European voting intentions are already being polled specifically, and these are the invariable results.
But UKIP always thinks that coming second equals winning. It has to. However, its likelihood even of that at the Euros is well within the margin of error.
Watch this space...
ReplyDeleteYou'll be in for one hell of a surprise.