High life
The new class
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Wilson is getting a worse rap than he 'You spoil that woodworm.' deserves. He was far better than Callaghan — at least he didn't saddle us with his grotesque home-breaking daughter — and a more able politician and a nicer man than Heath. He had to put up with Stalinists and KGB agents in leading positions within the party and in the unions that ran the party. My great complaint against Harold was his betrayal of the whites in Rhodesia. Only an Englishman could betray those who had fought so gallantly on Britain's side, and do it as sanctimoniously as Wilson did. Heath, needless to say, also chose treachery over honour.
Roberts writes that `thanks to Wilson's preference for manoeuvre over statesman- ship, Britain's sense of national malaise was as moral as it was financial'. But surely he must realise that Blair's preference for spin far outweighs any Wilsonian manoeuvres? Blair has pulled the wool over everyone's eyes, including the great Paul Johnson's. Tony boy is planning to surrender the pound, no ifs or buts about it, just as he plans to build a new social order in which traditional relations will be replaced by bureaucratic management.
In other words, Blair and his bunch of queens want to plan more than just the economy. They want to plan society as a whole. Now that planned economies have proved a no-no, the Left has turned its guns on the people. Their impulse is to run our lives. The easiest way to accomplish this is to become a federation of nationali- ties. What John O'Sullivan calls 'the new class' will then govern us by mediating our disputes and planning our everyday lives. It will try to extend its control by law and reg- ulation, moving decisions from elected bodies to judicial or bureaucratic ones. This is what the EU is all about. It aims to amalgamate nations into a multicultural federation under a centralised government.
Already, in the case of General Pinochet, we see the power of the promoters of this new international law which makes up the rules as it goes along. These promoters are socialists and Marxists, and determined to lord it over us in the manner their Soviet predecessors lorded it over 500 million people for 75 years. Personally, I preferred the Russkies, who at least grabbed power at the point of a gun. The present bunch is trying to snatch the ring by stealth.
What puzzles me is the reaction of the people. Is everyone blind or just too dumb- ed down by television to notice? Are Euro- zealots like Roy Jenkins, Ted Heath, the grotesque Hezza and, yes, Tony Blair and his queens qualified to tell us what's good for us? Nation states do not need a ruling elite to mediate their differences, but a European superstate does. The Euro tax on job losses is only the beginning. One day, which will come sooner rather than later, what Denis Healey did to the rich pips to make them squeak will happen to all of us. But it won't be ordered by a British Cabinet minister. It will either be a German or a Frenchman, or perhaps a Bel- gian. It could even be a Greek.
Talk about a deceitful and defeatist era. The first British Prime Minister to lose England will be Tony Blair, and it will hap- pen while the great British public are asleep or watching the telly.
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