Tuesday 15 June 2010

After The Saville Row

Any trial would be billed and sold as the trial of eight hundred years, with the guilty verdicts read out as if they were the proclamation of the (potently never realised) 32-County Republic of 1916.

Only a Conservative Government could or would ever withdraw from Northern Ireland. Only the Heath Government has come close to doing so, in very marked contrast both to its Labour predecessor and to its Labour successor. And very close it came. Very close indeed. Margaret Thatcher, a Cabinet Minister throughout the Heath years, objected exactly as much as she did to the European Communities Act, to the abolition of the historic counties, and to all the rest of it. In other words, not at all. But then, her time was rather taken up with closing so many grammar schools that there were not enough left at the end for her record ever to be equalled. The tone of her own Premiership was set.

Cameron's problem is that no one in the Republic as presently constituted wants Northern Ireland, and all three major parties in the Republic are creatures, literal creations, of British intelligence, which has always been running the place by proxy since it was created, only ever as part of the deal to bring America into the First World War. Everyone knows this. If people do not like it, then there are other electoral options, one in particular. Those options are never taken by any number of voters worth mentioning. But then, where that one in particular is concerned, it has always been said that each of its branches had three members, of whom one was a British spy, another was a Police informer, and the third went to jail.

So that rules out the forty-year Conservative pursuit of a United Ireland outside the Commonwealth but inside both NATO and the EU, by happy coincidence the cause in which successive American Administrations have funded, armed and directed Irish Republican terrorism, up to and including the murders of Airey Neave MP and Robert Bradford MP. And up to and including the murder of the parliamentarian whom Attlee had made Viceroy of India, and to whom Wilson had wanted to give the new position of Secretary of State for Defence in 1964, but who had felt bound to decline because of his closeness to the Royal Family. So much for either Wilson the KGB agent (they would have been wasting their money) or Mountbatten the plotter to stage a coup against him. Still, these fantasies allow those who peddle them to imagine that they are in the know, so they are useful in their way, I suppose.

And events seem to have overtaken any possibility of accession to the euro, which Britain would have joined at the start if the 1997 Election had not made Gordon Brown Chancellor of the Exchequer. But there are other items on the agenda. From the party that abolished the sovereignty of Parliament, the ancient counties, the imperial system of weights and measures, the special character of Sunday, hundreds of grammar schools, O-levels in state schools, many Commonwealth ties, and a considerable number of regiments, now come repeated Prime Ministerial statements of indifference as to the constitutional status of Wales, a scheme to abolish an entire House of Parliament, and an offer to Argentina of a share of any Falklands oil revenue in return for nothing whatever.

Plus Liam Fox, otherwise known as Luke Coffey. Fox-Coffey regards as absolutely sacrosanct our actually American nuclear "deterrent", and our "ability to fight" endless additional versions of the pointless war in Afghanistan. But Fox-Coffey is heavily trailing the abolition of all three of the British Army, the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. Instead, we are to have something akin to the United States Marine Corps or the Israeli Defence Force. Although under the overall command of which of them, we do not yet know. Well, we never really do, do we? All we know is that our forces are always under the overall command of one or the other.

Why, to bring us back to Northern Ireland, Lord Trimble, Trustee of the Henry Jackson Society and recipient of the Conservative Whip, not to say member of the Privy Council, has been appointed to the Israelis' internal inquiry into the flotilla incident.

14 comments:

  1. Don't you think you've made enough of a fool of yourself with the Henry Jackson Society recently?

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  2. Quite the reverse. Everything that I have said about them has been proved correct.

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  3. David Lindsay Is The Man15 June 2010 at 21:03

    Because David Lindsay kept pointing out the bit about giving control of our forces to Germany under America, the HJS changed its website to remove the full text of its Statement and put up a set of bullet points instead. But they cannot hide the truth that has already been put out there by David Lindsay.

    David Lindsay daily keeps up the pressure over Luke Coffey and all the other neocon horrors, today joined by Trimble on Israel. He is the voice of truth on America and Ireland, the murders of Airey Neave and Robert Bradford, the murder of Mountbatten, the real realtionship between Mountbatten and Wilson. David Lindsay is the man.

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  4. Thank God, someone who tells the truth about who was behind the Neave, Bradford and Mountbatten murders. Bradford was an MP for the party that Trimble went on to lead.

    And thank God, someone who tells the truth about Mountbatten and Wilson. As you no doubt know, Attlee made Mountbatten Viceroy because Mountbatten was so pro-Labour. You know doubt also know that some people from that kind of background crossed straight from the Tories to the early Labour Party. How right you are that if the KGB was paying Wilson then it was wasting its money.

    Trimble might try asking himself why he is siding, and presumably being paid by, a state set up under American pressure in surrender to Communist terrorism against Britain. Does that not remind him of anything or anyone?

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  5. The USMC is larger than all of our Armed Forces combined, but the Americans would never dream of abolishing all their other Services and making do with the Marines on their own.

    This is a proposal to weaken Britain even further and make us even more dependent on America. Classic neocon stuff from a definitely CIA SpAd to a probably CIA Defence Secretary.

    Speaking of Defence Secretaries, you know about the Wilson offer to Mountbatten in 1964! Bloody hell, looks like you really are the man, seriously, frighteningly "well-informed".

    Love the bit about how the Mountbatten coup plot against Wilson is the sort of story that makes the arrivistes feel in the know. Blair probably believed it. Fox probably believes it. Cameron certainly does not believe it.

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  6. Dickie, upper-class Tories who either became Labour or never quite did, though still sometimes serving as Ministers (occasionally even in Cabinet) or indeed as Viceroy of India, were a key factor in the emergence of the Labour Movement.

    As it took shape, Labour also adapted itself both to Radical Liberalism and to populist Toryism, depending on the pre-existing culture at least of its target electorate in the given locality.

    Labour was never the party of anything like the whole of the working classes, nor did those classes ever provide anything like all of its support. Britain has neither a proletariat nor a bourgeoisie in the Marxist or Continental sense, but several working classes and several middle classes, as well as arguably two or more upper classes these days, although the old one would hotly dispute that.

    There was never any incongruity about the presence of middle or upper-class people in the Labour Party, and not least among Labour MPs. Nor about their having come from, and far from cast off, either Liberal or Tory backgrounds, which especially in Labour's early years routinely included activism, and indeed parliamentary service, on behalf of either of those parties.

    The movement that drank deeply from both of these wells did in fact deliver social democracy in this country, a good both in itself and in its prevention of a Communist revolution or a Fascist putsch. That movement was destroyed by those who had always been its bitterest enemies, the sectarian Hard Left, which had moved from economic to moral, social, cultural and constitutional means. So now, a new such movement demands to be created.

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  7. Who is questioning the constitutional status of Wales?

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  8. Quite. Yet there still has to be a referendum. And the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom avowedly could not care less what the result was. Which really means that he will be bitterly disappointed when there is a heavy No vote.

    Though not half as disappointed as he will be when his party, having moved from being a victim of First Past The Post in Wales to making a significant electoral breakthrough there, is punished by its always quite numerous core supporters. Remember that, unlike the Lib Dems, UKIP is already strong enough to have an MEP in Wales.

    Oh, and Dickie, as Ernest Bevin told the Labour Party Conference, the Americans wanted to send the Jews to Palestine so that there would be none of them in New York.

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  9. David, what is your source for the claim that Wilson wanted to appoint Mountbatten as Secretary of State for Defence? My understanding is that Wilson would have liked Mountbatten to stay on as Chief of the Defence Staff, but Healey overruled him. I find it hard to believe that Mountbatten was ever seriously in the running for the Secretary of State's post. But if you can back up your claim with solid evidence, pray do so.

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  10. Oh, I have it on impeccable authority. Not, shall, we say, the kind that you find on the Net, or even in the books. As my source for this one would probably put it in an extremly improbable "less guarded" moment, the world divides between people who just know this sort of thing and people who just do not. My source is firmly in the former camp.

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  11. Who are his/her sources?

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  12. One feels no need to ask, but every need not to ask.

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  13. So why should I believe your unattributable source?

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