Tuesday 11 September 2012

"Conservative Voice"?

The voice of the necessary State action in order to conserve against the ravages of capitalism national self-government, the only basis for international co-operation, and including the United Kingdom as greater than the sum of its parts? 

The voice of the necessary State action in order to conserve against the ravages of capitalism local variation, historical consciousness, and family life?

The voice of the necessary State action in order to conserve against the ravages of capitalism agriculture, manufacturing, and small business?

The voice of the necessary State action in order to conserve against the ravages of capitalism close-knit communities, law and order, and civil liberties?

The voice of the necessary State action in order to conserve against the ravages of capitalism academic standards, all forms of art, and mass political participation within a constitutional framework?

The voice of those who, since they rightly oppose the unregulated movement of labour, rightly also oppose the unregulated movement of goods, services and capital, and vice versa?

The voice of those who, since they rightly oppose the decadent social libertinism deriving from the 1960s, rightly also oppose its logically inevitable, and not unwitting, development into the decadent economic libertinism deriving from the 1980s, and vice versa?

And the voice of those who, since they rightly oppose the erosion of self-government and cultural distinctiveness by the European Union, rightly also oppose that erosion by American hegemony and global capital, closely connected as all those three are, and vice versa?

No, of course not. Quite the reverse, in fact.

Not only that, but a star vehicle for the man who ran a parallel foreign policy out of his office as Defence Secretary and through his fake charity, since deregistered. He ran it in the interests of the American neoconservatives, who are not even in government in their own country, and in the interests of the racist Israeli Far Right and the Sinhalese genocidists of Sri Lanka, who most unfortunately are in government in their respective countries.

He even appointed an American intelligence operative, without so much as the fig leaf of a British passport, as one of his Special Advisers, meaning that the MoD contained someone with the direct ear of the Secretary of State but who had been refused security clearance.

Why has Liam Fox not been expelled from Parliament and prosecuted? Why is he still in receipt of the Conservative Whip? These are not rhetorical questions. Nor is that of what on earth David Davis is doing, getting himself mixed up with this sort of thing.

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