The death of Robert Mugabe is a reminder of the days when Britain had a Prime Minister who was known to the Soviet Union as "the Peking Plotter". She never saw a Maoist whom she did not like, from Ceaușescu, to Mugabe, to Pol Pot. She even sent the SAS to train the Khmer Rouge. She held out against a settlement rather than recognise Joshua Nkomo instead of China's favourite and her own, Mugabe.
Bringing us to the curious obsession with minor civil disorder in a randomly selected provincial Chinese city. It was of course Margaret Thatcher who negotiated the deal for what had always been the inevitable transfer of China's own territory back to its control at the end of the lease.
Her key advisers and her core supporters were horrified at the idea of slitty-eyed, yellow-skinned persons being allowed to "swamp" Britain, the rule of which the inhabitants of Hong Kong had in any case been known to resist far forcefully than anything that has been going on there in recent weeks, leading to far more brutal repression, especially under the Labour Government of the late 1960s.
The Extradition Bill is no more, so things have moved on to "freedom 'n' democracy", neither of which Hong Kong had under Britain. We all know where this one would end. The dismemberment of China, which we are also promoting in Xinjiang through our perennial favourite proxies (or so we think), the jihadis, is the worst idea that there could possibly be. Thank goodness that we are never really going to try it.
Nevertheless, most Labour MPs, almost all Conservatives, and all Lib Dems, are determined to push this as far as it will go. Another hung Parliament is coming, however, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it. A new party is now in the process of registration. After nearly 30 years of suggestion, speculation, and even a sort of preparation, I will stand for Parliament here at North West Durham. The crowdfunding page is here, and buy the book here. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
The Extradition Bill is no more, so things have moved on to "freedom 'n' democracy", neither of which Hong Kong had under Britain. We all know where this one would end. The dismemberment of China, which we are also promoting in Xinjiang through our perennial favourite proxies (or so we think), the jihadis, is the worst idea that there could possibly be. Thank goodness that we are never really going to try it.
Nevertheless, most Labour MPs, almost all Conservatives, and all Lib Dems, are determined to push this as far as it will go. Another hung Parliament is coming, however, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it. A new party is now in the process of registration. After nearly 30 years of suggestion, speculation, and even a sort of preparation, I will stand for Parliament here at North West Durham. The crowdfunding page is here, and buy the book here. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
I always thought that E Ba Gum lived in Barnsley and had gotten confused when he looked at his name in the mirror. His father, Fred, kept the local chippie. He served a lovely Haddock mind.
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