With the Prime Minister talking at the despatch box about "the Deep State", I am reminded of this comment on a recent post in which I had referred to the presence of "the tribal elders of the Tory Deep State" at Rishi Sunak's campaign launch:
Asked to autograph Durham Miners' Gala programmes, asked to endorse candidates to lead huge trade unions, old ladies kissing your hand after Mass, young couples asking you to bless their children, young men asking you before they try and become priests, young men asking you before they try and become MPs, you're a fine one to talk about the tribal elders of a Deep State. What do you think you are?
Well, each of the first four of those has only ever happened once to date; in the fourth case, I did something in the vein of "Goodnight and God Bless" and told them to see a priest. But of which tribe might I be an elder, and why? And if I am part of any Deep State, then of which one, and, again, why?
This tribe, and this Deep State:
ReplyDeleteWe are the future, one way or another. In 50 years' time, the very latest that I might remotely realistically be alive, either we shall have won, or we shall have been driven underground or into exile, those of us who were not in prison or martyred at the hands of your economic and social liberalism that enforced itself by the use of very hard power at home, while also deploying that in order to spread itself across the whole wide earth. And 50 years after that, and 50 years after that again, and so on until we had prevailed.
https://davidaslindsay.blogspot.com/2022/06/pange-lingua-gloriosi.html
Hidden depths, indeed.
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