One of Margaret Thatcher's most abiding legacies is Robert Mugabe. And what, exactly, does a "Goodwill Ambassador" do, anyway? Still, he cannot possibly be a less appropriate, or a less effective, choice for that office than Tony Blair was a "Middle East Peace Envoy".
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Very rarely mentioned, well done. She absolutely insisted on him instead of Nkomo and she even got him a British knighthood.
ReplyDeleteShe never saw a Maoist she didn't like. As with her use of the SAS to train the Khmer Rouge, she was quite true to Red Star's description of her as "a Peking Plotter".
DeleteShe had him knighted when he was only murdering blacks by the tens of thousand while allowing the whites to keep the best land. He only became a problem when he became an inconvenience to continuing white economic supremacy. Mass murdering blacks had always been fine.
DeleteYes, it was only the likes of Jeremy Corbyn, Tony Benn and George Galloway who objected to that. Like the arming of Saddamn Hussein's Iraq, back in the day. One day, the people who are allowed on will pretend that they were always against the arming of Saudi Arabia, too. But that won't be true, either.
DeleteThe Tories were always strangely sympathetic to the white farmers there, who had committed treason against the Queen and pretended to depose her. But then a lot of them were related. As Clare Short said, "I should make it clear that we do not accept that Britain has a special responsibility to meet the costs of land purchase in Zimbabwe. We are a new government from diverse backgrounds, without links to former colonial interests." Quite right, too. As previous people have said, it was "Loony Left" to give a stuff about Mugabe when he was only massacring blacks rather than taking whites' stolen land away. Whites who had committed treason against Britain. Not their ancestors, but themselves.
ReplyDelete"My own origins are Irish and, as you know, we were colonised not colonisers." And she sat for a Birmingham seat. You're right, the Tories were amazingly sympathetic to people who'd declared UDI and then illegally declared themselves a republic. Can't think why...
DeleteIt is a mystery, isn't it...? And then they were very pro-Mugabe, for quite a long time.
DeleteThe Irish, by the way, very rather good colonisers as well as being colonised. But that is another story. Mostly.
They'd declared UDI while there was a Labour government in Britain, maybe that was it?
DeleteThat was part of it, yes. But at least one signatory to the UDI later returned to Britain, utterly unrepentant, and resumed using his hereditary peerage in the Conservative interest. Just imagine anything even vaguely comparable to that in any other context. Of course, you can't.
DeleteThey are very lucky to have Mugabe as the other side, otherwise nobody would feel any sympathy for them apart from the Thomas Mairs of the world.
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