I am as baffled
as ever by the Conservative Party's idolatry of Margaret Thatcher. They
got rid of her. No one else did. It was them. But 23 years later, they
love her now that she is dead.
However, she remains not without responsibility for the fact that there might be some
money for fusiliers if a hundred billion pounds were not being spent on
missiles pointed at nowhere, and which could not even be fired without American
approval, nor not fired if the Americans instructed that they be so.
Heckled Hammond, think on.
But there is nobody sensible who argues that we shouldn't have had nuclear weapons at the height of the Cold War-when Thatcher rightly had them.
ReplyDeleteThe only people who argued that at the time-was that well-known Soviet Union fifth column, the CND.
It says it all, that Blair was forced to admit to having been a card-carrying CND member.
His treachery to this country-and the treachery of the Left in general-didn't start in 1997.
Enoch Powell always saw through the whole thing, and he was entirely correct as it turned out: the Soviet threat did not exist, as he had always said that it didn't, which was no small part of why he said that we ought not to have had nuclear weapons.
ReplyDeleteHis line on Thatcher is truly priceless. Told that she had been influenced by his works, he replied that, "She cannot have understood any of them, then."
"the Soviet threat did not exist".
ReplyDeleteBut the point is that nobody serious argued that at the time (unless you count Marxists like Ralph Miliband and CND as "serious").
Therefore Thatcher was right to keep nuclear weapons.
Hindsight is a luxury she didn't have.
The fact that Tony Blair was a card-carrying member (something he had to be bludgeoned into admitting) back when the Soviet Union was believed to be a very serious threat to Britain, tells us all we need to know about him.
Believed by whom? Not by Enoch. At the time.
ReplyDeleteThe paleo-paleocons also saw through the whole thing.
Exactly-only a few people on the extreme fringes argued that (if you think Enoch Powell was ever mainstream, then I really don't know what to say).
ReplyDeleteEnoch and the CND did not represent mainstream opinion on this, at the time. To say the very least.
That was how exactly the same people were made to lose the 1975 Europe referendum. Their position was defined as "the fringe", making them fringe figures by definition. But they were right about that. And they were right about this.
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