"I remember that at the end of the last war appeals were made on the basis that the youth of Germany were suffering from malnutrition and rickets and that we ought to do something to save them from the dreadful conditions under which they had to live. Good gracious me! Those were the people who became Hitler's S.S. men twenty-five years later. Do not let us run into that kind of stupidity again this time."
So said Lord Llewellin, in the House of Lords on 5th December 1945. Having been Minister of Food during the War, he was opposing the expressions of sympathy for the starving children of the ethnically German communities that were then being expelled from Central and Eastern Europe.
Both he and his peers seem to have been quite unaware that there might have been a reason why the malnourished and rickety children of the British blockade of Germany at the end of the First World War might have grown up into quite such implacable enemies of Britain.
And so to 2019, and indeed to 25 years hence. In a crowded field, Priti Patel may well turn out to be the worst Home Secretary ever. If these abandoned "ISIS children", who are British citizens, survived to adulthood, then what does she think that they would become? But then, she pretty much thinks that they were born that way, and that they are incurable.
So said Lord Llewellin, in the House of Lords on 5th December 1945. Having been Minister of Food during the War, he was opposing the expressions of sympathy for the starving children of the ethnically German communities that were then being expelled from Central and Eastern Europe.
Both he and his peers seem to have been quite unaware that there might have been a reason why the malnourished and rickety children of the British blockade of Germany at the end of the First World War might have grown up into quite such implacable enemies of Britain.
And so to 2019, and indeed to 25 years hence. In a crowded field, Priti Patel may well turn out to be the worst Home Secretary ever. If these abandoned "ISIS children", who are British citizens, survived to adulthood, then what does she think that they would become? But then, she pretty much thinks that they were born that way, and that they are incurable.
You see, she is a supporter of Narendra Modi, and indeed she holds her office largely at his insistence. She is a hardline Hindu nationalist and upper-caste supremacist of the kind that is electorally so important to the Conservative Party in certain marginal constituencies that this country's infinitesimal high caste population has managed to bag no fewer than three seats in the present Cabinet.
Background is one thing. But there is simply no excuse for having a person of such views as Home Secretary. Or, indeed, as anything very much else. Nor are her views confined to her party. Another hung Parliament is coming, however, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it. I am standing 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.
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