No one from the former Soviet Union was invited to the D-Day commemorations, even though the Germans were there. But to complain about that would be to miss the point.
As the Queen's speech for Donald Trump's State Banquet made clear, this was in fact a celebration of the "order" that was put in place immediately after the War, and supremely of NATO. Like the EU, and indeed like the Federal Republic of Germany, NATO was very largely founded by what were then extremely recent Nazi Officers.
Jeremy Corbyn is called every name under the Sun for his doubts about NATO, even if he has gone unduly quiet about them of late. But Trump is very open about his eventual desire to withdraw from his country's financial and other liability for the defence of Turkish Islamists (about whom Boris Johnson has also been very rude in the past), of Eastern European neo-Nazis, and soon of Latin American caudillos as well.
Opposition to the EU was "Loony Left" until certain people, although never Margaret Thatcher herself, managed to convince themselves that it had somehow brought her down. Liberal interventionism was naive and adolescent and undergraduate and basically Trotskyist (all of which it was and is) until the American Republican Party adopted it, at which point opposition to it mysteriously became all of those things, and treasonable even in the United Kingdom to boot.
Watch out for a similar flip-flop on NATO. And once more, watch out for the marginalisation of the people who had been critical of it all along. Another hung Parliament is coming, however, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it. A new party will be registered before House of Commons rises for the summer recess, even if I have to pay for it myself, ongoing lawfare or no ongoing lawfare.
And I will stand for Parliament here at North West Durham even if I can raise only the deposit, which I could do by going pretty overdrawn, although that was not how I was brought up. I would still prefer to raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign, but I am no longer making my candidacy conditional on having done so. In any event, please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
Watch out for a similar flip-flop on NATO. And once more, watch out for the marginalisation of the people who had been critical of it all along. Another hung Parliament is coming, however, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it. A new party will be registered before House of Commons rises for the summer recess, even if I have to pay for it myself, ongoing lawfare or no ongoing lawfare.
And I will stand for Parliament here at North West Durham even if I can raise only the deposit, which I could do by going pretty overdrawn, although that was not how I was brought up. I would still prefer to raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign, but I am no longer making my candidacy conditional on having done so. In any event, please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
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