Wednesday 24 June 2009

Question Time

With which of the following policies of the Polish Law and Justice Party does Daniel Kawczynski, never mind David Cameron, agree?

- a state-guaranteed minimum social safety net;
- state intervention in the economy;
- a tax decrease to two personal tax rates (18% and 32%), with tax rebates related to the number of children in a family;
- a reduction of the VAT rate;
- public ownership of several dozen companies of strategic importance to the economy or the country;
- opposition to cuts in social welfare spending;
- a system of state-guaranteed housing loans;
- free health care, provided by the state;
- opposition to abortion, euthanasia, same-sex "marriage", and sex and violence in the media;
- the building of three million inexpensive housing units in order to help young couples get married;
- increased maternity leave;
- a grant to parents for every newborn child;
- closing large supermarkets on Sundays and holidays, so that their workers can spend more time with their families.

And does Phil Wilson go round the old pit villages of the Sedgefield constituency extolling the virtues of Winston Churchill in general and his carve-up of Eastern Europe with Stalin in particular? We need to face the fact that there were several wars, albeit interrelated, between 1939 and 1945. The Latvian "SS" (what were they supposed to do, try and set up their own Army?) were not fighting for Germany and they were not fighting against Britain.

They were fighting for Latvia, a sovereign state between the Wars. And they were fighting against Stalin, at least as great a threat to Britain as Hitler ever was, as well as against genocidal terrorism bearing more than a passing resemblance to that perpetrated against Levantine Arabs by those who also blew up British Jews going about their business as civil servants, and who photographed the hanging of teenage British conscripts with barbed wire.

7 comments:

  1. So what about the SS in Bosnia and Kosovo?

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  2. You are a fan of the Latvian Fatherland and Freedom party then.

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  3. "So what about the SS in Bosnia and Kosovo?"

    They were fighting for what we would now call Islamism (Hitler had several such contacts in the Middle East, and believed that if Vienna had fallen to the Turks then the German-speaking lands would never have sunk into the decadence from which he felt it his historic mission to rescue them), and were enthusiastic persecutors of the Jews, the Roma, &c. So, no change there, then.

    The Tories' new friends in the List Dedecker have connections to the separatism that is the expression of SS tradition in Flanders, i.e., directly and unambiguously at war with Britain. But no one ever seems to mention that. How odd...

    "You are a fan of the Latvian Fatherland and Freedom party then"

    Not really. The treatment of the Russian minorities in the Baltic States is a disgrace. Although the suggestion that, in Latvia, they should at least be able to speak Latvian is just common sense.

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  4. The PiS is also very keen on lustration.

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  5. It certainly is. A rooting out of old Communist Party operatives and agents of Eastern Bloc secret services would make a LOT of difference to today's Britain.

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  6. David Lindsay is a fascist24 June 2009 at 18:10

    Patria y Libertad were the Chilean Facxists who killed Olof Palme.

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  7. Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, sweetie. Euskadi Ta Askatasuna.

    Not least since that x suggests that you have an affinity with that language.

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