Following a triumphant Latin Rite Easter in Syria, and in anticipation of Syria's triumphant Easter according to the Eastern Rites, the Russian-enabled liberation of Eastern Ghouta is nearing its glorious completion. The Putin-baiters and the Corbyn-haters had wanted us to fight on the other side. Never forget that. Never. David Garrard, who threatened to fund a breakaway party in the run-up to last year's General Election, is just sore that a mass membership party with strong union backing has no remaining need of him.
Prince Charles was of course right to speak out on behalf of persecuted Christians, but whose fault is that? And what good is he, as such, against it? Broadly paleoconservative opinion might be far better represented once the exercise of each of the Royal Prerogatives had been transferred to six, seven, eight or nine of nine nationally elected Co-Presidents, with each of us voting for one candidate, and with the top nine elected at the end. You know what you have to do, brothers and sisters. You know what you have to do.
Throughout Margaret Thatcher's Premiership, whenever there was not a General Election on, the pages of The Spectator and of the Times, Telegraph, Mail and Express newspapers carried regular tirades against her Government by economic libertarians, by social conservatives, and by proponents of a foreign policy of realism, scepticism, self-interest, and so on.
Even economic libertarians are coming round to the Universal Basic Income, and of course many of them are very strong opponents of neoconservative foreign policy, as they all are of neoliberal crony capitalism. On any of the three counts, then, if you want the coming hung Parliament to contain at least one ally of economic libertarians, and rather more than an ally of social conservatives and of foreign policy realists, then you know what you have to do, brothers and sisters. You know what you have to do.
Forget, however, about Jacob Rees-Mogg, who is now peddling the daft idea of allowing Catholics to ascend the Throne. That is entirely of a piece with his routine quotation of the Book of Common Prayer, the King James Bible and Victorian Anglican hymnody: it does not come across as culturally Catholic at all. As the New York Irish used to say of John F. Kennedy, "He never did a day of Catholic school in his life."
Rees-Mogg is a total fraud. A bog standard post-Thatcherite and New Cold Warrior, he has seldom or never voted against the Cameron and May Governments, and he holds no view that would have precluded his service in either of them. That he has never been a Minister can only be because he was not and is not good enough, at least in the relative sense that other people are better.
He would never make it onto the ballot for Leader, and he would certainly never be among the two names sent out to the Conservative Party in the country. In, that is, the extremely unlikely event that that party ever had another Leadership Election. Its MPs are nothing if not Tory in their preference for coronations over elections.
Throughout Margaret Thatcher's Premiership, whenever there was not a General Election on, the pages of The Spectator and of the Times, Telegraph, Mail and Express newspapers carried regular tirades against her Government by economic libertarians, by social conservatives, and by proponents of a foreign policy of realism, scepticism, self-interest, and so on.
Even economic libertarians are coming round to the Universal Basic Income, and of course many of them are very strong opponents of neoconservative foreign policy, as they all are of neoliberal crony capitalism. On any of the three counts, then, if you want the coming hung Parliament to contain at least one ally of economic libertarians, and rather more than an ally of social conservatives and of foreign policy realists, then you know what you have to do, brothers and sisters. You know what you have to do.
Forget, however, about Jacob Rees-Mogg, who is now peddling the daft idea of allowing Catholics to ascend the Throne. That is entirely of a piece with his routine quotation of the Book of Common Prayer, the King James Bible and Victorian Anglican hymnody: it does not come across as culturally Catholic at all. As the New York Irish used to say of John F. Kennedy, "He never did a day of Catholic school in his life."
Rees-Mogg is a total fraud. A bog standard post-Thatcherite and New Cold Warrior, he has seldom or never voted against the Cameron and May Governments, and he holds no view that would have precluded his service in either of them. That he has never been a Minister can only be because he was not and is not good enough, at least in the relative sense that other people are better.
He would never make it onto the ballot for Leader, and he would certainly never be among the two names sent out to the Conservative Party in the country. In, that is, the extremely unlikely event that that party ever had another Leadership Election. Its MPs are nothing if not Tory in their preference for coronations over elections.
No comments:
Post a Comment