Odd, isn't it, how certain commentators are everywhere for a while, and then go away completely, but in some cases come back? Unsighted for years, the once ubiquitous James Delingpole was on Newsnight earlier this week, and then on This Week last night. He was defending Donald Trump.
Boris Johnson is blaming Jeremy Corbyn and Sadiq Khan for Trump's cancelled visit, thereby declaring them to have far more power than Johnson himself, or even Theresa May, has. If Trump does not want to have protesters, then he is right not to come to Britain, and should confine his visits to his former destination of Saudi Arabia.
But I for one greatly look forward to his eventual arrival on these shores. It would provoke a reaction such as would redefine this country's cultural and political life for at least 50 years, overflowing from the biggest demonstrations that Britain had ever seen.
Of course, there would be those who staged some kind of pro-Trump event. For example, Toby Young, who no longer has anything else to do. Who, exactly, was in need of his "Office for Students", when neo-Nazis, properly so called, were holding eugenics conferences, properly so called, at UCL, of all places? Or when participants in those conferences were being appointed to public office?
The Line seems to be to screech "What about John McDonnell?", of all people. But John McDonnell has not attended eugenics conferences with neo-Nazis, one of whom believes that it is acceptable to have sex with children if they have been drugged to sleep for the purpose. John McDonnell is too busy preparing to attend, since he has been invited to it, the World Economic Forum in Davos. No such invitation has been extended to Toby Young. Or to James Delingpole. Nor will it be.
Boris Johnson is blaming Jeremy Corbyn and Sadiq Khan for Trump's cancelled visit, thereby declaring them to have far more power than Johnson himself, or even Theresa May, has. If Trump does not want to have protesters, then he is right not to come to Britain, and should confine his visits to his former destination of Saudi Arabia.
But I for one greatly look forward to his eventual arrival on these shores. It would provoke a reaction such as would redefine this country's cultural and political life for at least 50 years, overflowing from the biggest demonstrations that Britain had ever seen.
Of course, there would be those who staged some kind of pro-Trump event. For example, Toby Young, who no longer has anything else to do. Who, exactly, was in need of his "Office for Students", when neo-Nazis, properly so called, were holding eugenics conferences, properly so called, at UCL, of all places? Or when participants in those conferences were being appointed to public office?
The Line seems to be to screech "What about John McDonnell?", of all people. But John McDonnell has not attended eugenics conferences with neo-Nazis, one of whom believes that it is acceptable to have sex with children if they have been drugged to sleep for the purpose. John McDonnell is too busy preparing to attend, since he has been invited to it, the World Economic Forum in Davos. No such invitation has been extended to Toby Young. Or to James Delingpole. Nor will it be.
Trump has now been to half the countries in the world as President without ever coming to Britain. Face it, fanboys, he ain't coming. He'd be at more risk here than anywhere else in the world including North Korea. There's a reason you only ever meet each other on the Internet.
ReplyDeleteBut I wish he would. The reaction would redefine this country's cultural and political life for at least 50 years, overflowing from the biggest demonstrations that Britain had ever seen.
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