Jeremy Hardy probably thought that he was being funny when he suggested on The News Quiz that the nationalised industries could never have been privatised, at least not by Thatcher or Major, if they had had the word "Royal" in their names, like the Royal Mail.
But he was right.
It is odd that the Attlee Government did not do that obvious thing. It had better relations with the Palace than any before or since. It was more fond of British national symbols than any non-Labour Government ever, or than any Labour Government since 1997.
It is odd that the Attlee Government did not do that obvious thing. It had better relations with the Palace than any before or since. It was more fond of British national symbols than any non-Labour Government ever, or than any Labour Government since 1997.
Beginning with the railways within the next five years, they all are all going to come back within the next 20. When they do, then that ought to be done: the word "Royal" must lead their names, and the Crowned Royal Initials must be prominent on everything to do with them.
After all, public ownership does in fact guarantee national sovereignty, parliamentary sovereignty, the Union, and the economic basis of traditional family life.
After all, public ownership does in fact guarantee national sovereignty, parliamentary sovereignty, the Union, and the economic basis of traditional family life.
Ed West is increasingly one of the funniest Right-wing commentators.
ReplyDeleteThis (on "cities of culture") is hilarious-all the more so because it's true.
West; ""lots of the cities that compete for this honour are certified Crap Towns. Dover? Stoke-on-Trent?...These are not cities of culture, unless you mean culture in the loosest sense, as in ‘gang culture’ or possibly the culture that grows at the back of the fridge""
That kind of attitude from the South just guarantees that the wrong sort will stay away. Good.
ReplyDeleteNothing to do with the South, as such.
ReplyDeleteSince the uglification of the 60's housing and architecture, and mass immigration, many places are a mass of horrendous concrete and glass, a multicultural nowhere-land with a few Tesco's and Texaco's in between.