Post-War London's Eastern European "Governments in Exile" were a joke until they left exile and became governments, while the fear or hope that Italy was about to go Communist was as constant as it was well-founded throughout the Cold War.
For a time, few people seriously expected Charles II to come back. But come back he did. The likes of Malborough and Walpole maintained contact with the Jacobite court, just in case. Within the American elite well into the nineteenth century, there were Tory stay-behind networks of British sleeper agents, not all of whom were asleep.
The French monarchy has been restored several times, and French monarchists have returned to power both more often, and far more recently, than that. The Franco regime was full of Carlists, loyal to a dynasty that had never reigned, and which has still never done so.
In 1979, the outer individualist fringe of the tiny Liberal Party acquired the all-powerful "advisory" positions in and around Downing Street. In 1997, those positions passed to the outer Gramscian, Eurocommunist fringe of the recently dissolved Communist Party of Great Britain.
In 2017, a few thousand votes in the marginal seats denied those positions to the people who, having put aside their differences to create the Stop the War Coalition, had gone on to mastermind Jeremy Corbyn's two successful campaigns of the Labour Leadership. But instead of them, that General Election handed power over the whole of the United Kingdom to the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster and to Ulster Resistance.
And in 2019, a General Election confirmed the seizure of the key "advisory" positions several months earlier by Vote Leave, which was no less exotic or eclectic than Corbyn's entourage, but which is now the British Government.
The French monarchy has been restored several times, and French monarchists have returned to power both more often, and far more recently, than that. The Franco regime was full of Carlists, loyal to a dynasty that had never reigned, and which has still never done so.
In 1979, the outer individualist fringe of the tiny Liberal Party acquired the all-powerful "advisory" positions in and around Downing Street. In 1997, those positions passed to the outer Gramscian, Eurocommunist fringe of the recently dissolved Communist Party of Great Britain.
In 2017, a few thousand votes in the marginal seats denied those positions to the people who, having put aside their differences to create the Stop the War Coalition, had gone on to mastermind Jeremy Corbyn's two successful campaigns of the Labour Leadership. But instead of them, that General Election handed power over the whole of the United Kingdom to the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster and to Ulster Resistance.
And in 2019, a General Election confirmed the seizure of the key "advisory" positions several months earlier by Vote Leave, which was no less exotic or eclectic than Corbyn's entourage, but which is now the British Government.
So it is really not at all odd that, while it may take another General Election to bring it about, half a dozen or so elderly men muttering into their Guinness that they were the true successors of the 32 County Republic of 1916 will by the end of this year be exercising de facto sovereignty over all 32 Counties.
There is hope for us all yet. I will be standing for Parliament again here at North West Durham next time, so please give generously. In any event, please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
There is hope for us all yet. I will be standing for Parliament again here at North West Durham next time, so please give generously. In any event, please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
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