Sunday 9 September 2012

Not Beyond His Ken

It is not often that I can find much good to say about Ken Clarke. But his appointment to the National Security Council is not only welcome, it is also very telling. Like Sir Malcolm Rifkind, Sir Peter Tapsell, Edward Leigh, John Baron and others, Clarke advanced a classically Tory case against the starry-eyed drivel advanced by supporters of an invasion of Iraq.

Ten years on, he has been vindicated in full. Yet the same people, now with even less excuse for their naïveté, seek to bounce us into participating in the destruction of the world's second-oldest civilisation, a state with reserved parliamentary representation for its ancient Christian minorities, merely on the orders of a state founded by anti-British Marxist terrorists within the lifetime of Ken Clarke, terrorists and their successors with an altogether different approach towards the Christian aborigines in their midst.

With the departure of many New Labour figures to be replaced with classic Labour ones who took advantage of the refusal of the Blairy Boys to sully themselves with the hard work of Opposition, the Parliamentary Labour Party would now be pretty much unanimous in its resistance to any war against Iran; a vote on such a thing might usefully smoke out any diehards who could then be deselected. We all know about the Lib Dems.

And the appointment of Ken Clarke to the National Security Council strongly indicates that even the Conservatives might finally be reverting to their historic scepticism about foreign adventures to make the world anew. Dare we hope that the refusal of their own Westminster Village golden boys and of such characters' pointless girlfriends to sully themselves with the hard work of Opposition might create openings for classic Tories in 2015?

2 comments:

  1. the departure of many New Labour figures to be replaced with classic Labour ones who took advantage of the refusal of the Blairy Boys to sully themselves with the hard work of Opposition

    That is no way to talk about Small Cigar.

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  2. But every way to talk about the lady who won in the end. Classic Labour.

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