One Law For One

Does anyone recall the unions being asked if they wanted the Thatcher anti-union legislation? Or any suggestion that the Queen could not sign it because it was too contentious?

But this is an integral part of the Conservative machine, exercising unconstitutional power as a kind of Dangeld, and subjecting the British political process to a foreign influence.

In this case, to a foreign influence far more demonstrably hostile, rather than merely distasteful as the ramshackle Soviet Union was. Rupert Murdoch is many things, but he is not ramshackle.

And he hates British institutions, such as the Privy Council, far more than the Soviet Union did. It is difficult to think that Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov or Chernenko gave such things much, if any, thought. Whereas Murdoch has given them an awful lot.

In any case, the CPGB was often highly critical of the USSR, and vice versa. The Murdoch media are not, and cannot be, critical of Rupert Murdoch. Nor are the people who merely wish that they were drawing his salaries.

Still, it is nice to see the Conservative Party papers stating it out loud today. If this is an attack on them by "the Left", then they themselves must be, as some of us have always said that they were, Conservative Party election expenses, to be counted as such. They have now said it themselves.